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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 24 the stars and stripes saturday october 21, 1967 suspense lifts As you learn that All those sufferers on Page 1 Are lifting weight sat the Little olympics Competition in Mexico City. A . Braces for March 7 convicted in civil rights slayings continued from Page u county Jackson jail co said his voice shaking. There will be some explanation of some very Loose talk. If you think you can intimidate this court you Are As mistaken As you can be. I m not going Tolet any wild Man  Cox ordered the two takeout and then told attorneys that Roberts made his threat thurs Day when judge Cox ordered the jurors to consider switching some of their votes to break a deadlock. He said Roberts remarked judge Cox just gave that jury the dynamite charge. We begot some dynamite  i m annoyed at the stupidity of a person who would have the audacity to do this Cox said. All seven of the me convicted witnesses had Testi fied were members of the secretive White knights of the Kun flux klan. The jury found innocent Neshoba county sheriff Law rence a. Rainey 44 Ole Burrage the 45-year-old trucker on whose farm the bodies Over found Frank Herdon 48 James t. Harris 33 Herman Tucker 39 Richard a. Willis 43, a former Philadelphia,miss., policeman Bernard l. Akin 52 and Travis , 39. Travis Barnette the brother of Horace Barnette was assured of Freedom tuesday when . Gen. John Doar told the jury there was not sufficient evidence to convict him. The jury could not reach verdict on Jerry m. Sharp 24 former sheriff and now sheriff elect e. G. Hop Barnette 47, and Edgar Ray preacher Killen 42. The convictions culminated one of the longest and most expensive investigations i government history. There were nine Days of testimony in the trial. During that time the government use highly paid informers from Oakland Routs protesters continued from Page to some faculty members picketed very Entrance to the Campus and classes went largely unattended. The Brooklyn protest began thursday Over the presence of two Navy recruiters on  staging a sit in battled with police then and Friday sought to Block entrances to the Campus demanding a ban against police on Campus and the dropping of charges against those involved in thursday s  another Campus where Antiwar violence has flared the University of Wisconsin Demon stration ringleaders pressed Foran expanded class Boycott. Ant draft developments i Chicago took a new twist when police raided a South Sid apartment thursday night and arrested five leaders of cadre the City s prime draft resistance group. Police raid they found Venus. Continued from Page 1j the weekend and a preliminary analysis is to be released on  controllers at Jet propulsion laboratories said Mari Ner 5 s instruments performed flawlessly during the19,000-mile-an-hour Fly by. Agrees with Russ data at a news conference a few hours later or. Conway Snyder project scientist said first data from the spacecraft generally agreed with russian reports of a very dense  said Mariner 5 detected some indication of a magnetic Field in the Vicinity of the planet but he was not sure whether the Field was related to the planet or to the Sun. The russians reported their probe detected no magnetic Field. The 2,400-Pound soviet venus4 parachuted an instrumented package to the planet s surface wednesday. Russian scientists said it found conditions hostile to known forms of life an atmosphere composed almost entirely of Carbon dioxide and a Metal melting surface tempera Ture of 536 degrees fahrenheit. Snyder said Mariner 5 was no equipped to make direct measurements of Carbon dioxide an heat. Hard Shell Justice Bismarck . A five youths 18, who pleaded guilty to throwing eggs in at Heater were ordered by judge Gerald g. Glass to pay $10 Fin Sand to write 1,000 times i will not be a bad  envelopes containing marijuana and two hypodermic Needles in the  Wisconsin dispute was heated by charges of police brutality in breaking up a sit in  of the school s faculty met late thursday night and voted approval of the University s action in calling police. When police moved in on meaty tale larceny on the Bounty Council Bluffs Iowa up the Price of Hamburg ers went sky High Here wednes Day but it was brought rapidly Back to Normal  the Peak 12 ounces sold for $20. That s the Price two 15-year-Olds asked and got from the Ottaw Ottamie county Audi Tor s office. The boys wrapped the Ham Burger in four packages and turned them in at the office say ing they contained the ears from four coyotes they had  they please have the $5 Bounty per animal a woman clerk having qualms about looking at the ears of dead coyotes forked Over the Money. A courthouse custodian was Tso reluctant thursday. He opened the packages and found hamburger instead of Coyote  boys were rounded up and booked on charges of obtaining Money under false pretences. The demonstrators wednesday they used clubs and tear Gas in a pitched Battle. At least 71persons were injured. Federal authorities Friday were putting together a 10,000 Man Force of paratroopers National guardsmen police and . Marshals to defend against possible violence during the planned anti Vietnam  in Washington ., saturday and  Many As 70,000 demonstrators were expected to take Partin the mass rally. Many on arrival begin training i nonviolent resistance techniques. They gathered on local Colleg campuses for outdoor classes on How to protect themselves from injury when police try to break up a crowd and How to fall Dowland go Limp in resistance to police efforts to Clear an  thursday ranged from massive metropolitan areas to Humble hamlets. About 60 Manchester Colleg students staged a. 20-Block March through tiny North Manchester ind.,thursday night while fellow students an townspeople tried to break up the protest. Authorities said one of the marchers was injured As demonstrators became targets for egg Sand rocks. Police moved quickly ending the violence. There we Reno arrests. In Portland ore., half a dozen Reed College students chained themselves to the draft head quarters door forcing police to use cutting tools to Clear thee trance. Gar really was t a Stea Benton 111. Up burglars who nit the Taylor motor co. Here thursday took a 1966 car that needed repairs and two Large boxes of tools. Wilson May intervene in rail walkout London a prime min ister Harold Wilson s govern ment warned Friday night it will take emergency Powers if a walkout by brakeman grows into National rail strike. Labor minister Ray Gunter called in rail Union chiefs and delivered the warning As striker forced cancellations of hundreds of trains. I have explained to the National Union of railway men that no government can stand by an watch a developing paralysis of train services Gunter told newsmen later. Union official Albert Griffith said the government May de Clare a state of emergency Asit did in the seamen s dispute last year. The position is serious As re Gards supplies of food Coal and other essential commodities Aswell As mail Griffiths said. The 15,000 brakeman Are de manding a Bonus of about 60 cents a Day because some 10 percent of their number Are now required to perform extra duties on trains where the Job of Loco motive fireman has been abolished. More than 900 trains were can celled thursday and More than 1,000 failed to run  had talks with Gunter after returning from a visit to Scotland and said he might intervene in the  rail walkout is the latest in a series of labor dispute which Are embarrassing Wilson at a time when he is trying Roget the British Economy moving again. Other major strikes have tied up vital exports at the London and Liverpool docks. Within the klan including Titan of the White Knight to Back up its Case that the White knights had set out to eliminate Schwerner a White Goatee new yorker. It claimed that Goodman also White new yorker and Chancy a Meridian miss., negro died Only because they were with Schwerner when the Klah trap closed on him. Jailed for speeding the three civil rights workers went to Philadelphia on fathers Day three years ago to investigate the burning of a negro Church. While they were there Deputy Price arrested them arid jailed them for speeding. He released th0m from jail that night and the disappeared. Witnesses testified that the Church was burned to lure Schwerner to Philadelphia add the arrest of the three was part of the plot to keep them  they were freed witnesses said seven of the klansmen intercepted their car chased them Down a dirt Road and shot them to death. Author s son says gis use marijuana Washington a John Steinbeck in 21-year-old son of the prize winning novelist re ports widespread use of marijuana among american sol Diers in Vietnam. His charges appear in drafts of articles submit Ted for publication in the washingtonian Magazine in Decem Ber Ajril Early next year. In them Steinbeck who was arrested Here tuesday on narcotics charges alleges that three fourths or More of the troops Are using marijuana. Young Steinbeck is in the army and recently returned from duty in Southeast Asia. Heis stationed in the army s office of information at a military Plant Here. He was arrested a Day after detectives raided an off base apartment they said he rents. Inthe apartment police said they found 20 pounds of marijuana stuffed in shopping bags and packed in a suitcase the Detec Tives said belonged to Steinbeck. A second Young Man and two women also were arrested. Steinbeck pleaded not guilty at a preliminary hearing and trial was set for nov. 16. In the meantime he remains on Mili tary duty. �78. Shipping avoids British strikes by Bob Hoyer staff write London is the . Military has been maintaining the flow of food and cargo to troops in Britain by diverting hips from strike bound ports. To Date Wildcat strikes by dockers in Liverpool and London have had Only minimal effects on the shipment of . Goods into  has been rerouting ships at the request of the . Army transportation terminal unit London which handles cargo for air Force Navy and army installations in  into Liverpool which normally receives 20 percent of . Goods have been curtailed for the duration of the strike. Some ships have been sent to Antwerp and Rotterdam where the cargo has been unloaded into smaller ships to be brought to strike free British  containers filled with dry goods for the . Subsistence enter at High Wycombe have been held up at the Royal  sin London but a Center spokes Man said the delay has had no serious effect on the food Supply. We had a Good inventory be fore the strike began and so far the strike has had no effect on perishables the spokesman  army transportation officer said the introduction of the con Tainer concept in cargo a relatively new method loading containers in the states and shipping them to their Destina Tion has helped relieve the situation. If we had to worry about cargo in the hold of ships we d be a lot worse off he  . Navy in London re ported delay in parcel  number of the Small ships returning from Antwerp and Rotterdam have been unloaded at Felixstowe North of  shipments Are being unloaded at London and Southampton. The Date the strikes unauthorized by the transport and general workers Union have idled More than 15,000 of Brit Ain s 60,000   most serious stoppage is at Liverpool where 9,300 dockers Are striking because they want higher piece work pay. The London strike affecting primarily the Royal docks which the . Lines normally use has taken out some 5,600 workers with a variety of  for the labor government and British editorial opinion have labelled the London stoppage As  total of $420 million Worth of British goods is stacked up because of the strike most of it at  and Liverpool handle 51 per cent of Britain s shipping. Philippine floods kill 100 Manila a about 100people drowned in floods that raged through Bagayan province in Northern Luzon this week the philippine news service reported Friday  
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