European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday March 6, 196� the stars and stripes Page Copper strike leaders hear Johnson plea Washington a presi Dent Johnson told company and Union negotiators monday the 234-Day Copper strike is weaken ins the . Dollar in foreign Trade threatening american Prosperity and May Pinch sup plies for the War in Vietnam. Johnson said he urged the representatives of six striking unions and four giant Copper firms to get on with their bar paining on an urgent intensive around the clock Cabinet team the president in addition this own Appeal presented a team of his Cabinet members to Tell the negotiators that the Long strike is hurting the . Bal Ance of payments threatening shortages in civilian production and that a continued flow of Copper is vital for weapons am munition and communication equipment for the Vietnam War. The unions last month rejected a government sponsored planto Divide negotiations into three separate dispute involving some 50,000 strikers in 22 states has been deadlocked Over the Union s demand for at each of the big four Copper firms Kennicott Anaconda Phelps Dodge and american smelting and refine my. Boy arrested in shooting at 1 Evers Home Jackson miss. A negro Leader Charles Evers resumed his Campaign for con Gress monday while juvenile authorities held a 16-year-old youth accused of firing a shot gun toward Evers Home. The youth whose was not released was questioned by Jackson police before being handed Over to the custody of youth court. Officers said the youth con tended he did t fire until fired at by Volunteer guards station Dat the Evers Home. He told police he stopped at a Stop Sig when the shooting began. Two pellets of Buckshot froma 12-gauge Shotgun punctured Metal garbage bucket in Evers Yard. Volunteer guard Milton Coop or said the car had circled the Block several times Arous ing his suspicions. On the fifth time around he said he heard someone say shoot the one Shotgun blast sounded Pom the car Cooper said and a returned three shots. Still swinging Bressler Ames an88-year-old student at Sonoma state col lege in Santa Rosa calif., dances with crack no Bones before cracking the Mcdermott 21, and manages to he insists he s also a serious scholar. A with sonic booms windows bust Washington a Apanel of scientists has reported there seems Little danger of major structural damage from sonic booms created by supersonic air transport. But it conceded the booms can raise havoc with Glass and asked a coast to coast windowpane Cen sus to help gauge the 2,000-mile-an-hour set still is on the drawing boards but the question of the booms it will create already has raise some doubt whether it can be successfully operated Over populated land Federal pane counting sur vey in 15 american cities was recommended by a subcommittee of the National Academy of sciences which said such a Sam pling census could provide Good idea of the extent to which Glass is used in building construction throughout the nation. The group did so in a report released monday declaring that the probability is very Small that significant material damage of any kind could be caused to buildings by sonic booms generated by aircraft operating us per sonically in a Safe Normal the panel a sub group of an Academy committee established in 1964 at the request of president Johnson to study son i c a o o m effects conceded present knowledge is insufficient to assess accurately what kinds and amounts of physical damage will and in calling for the windowpane count it said that Glass damage thus far represents the largest share of Boom damage at least in terms of claims submitted and damages paid to citizens during previous sonic Boom testing programs including some by the air , it called for windowpane counts in Albuquerque,n.m., Chicago the Dallas fort Worth Tex. Area Denver an Oklahoma City All of which were specifically overflow i previous sonic Boom studies. It also recommended similar counts in Boston san Francisco Phoenix ariz., Jacksonville fla., and Portland Ore. . Report blames cops in Mel riot Washington up Astaff report prepared for the riots commission accuses Cam Bridge md., police of helping to Start a riot last summer by Over reacting to a speech by Black Power Leader h. Rap conclusion was reached in a private report prepared for president Johnson s advisory commission on civil disorders. The 35-Page analysis of the Cambridge riot not part of the official commission report was made available monday to up by congressional , 24-year-old chairman of the student nonviolent coordinating committee is under a Maryland indictment for inciting the july 24-25 disorder which resulted in the destruction of two full blocks of the negro Quarter in the Maryland Eastern Shore is fighting extradition to Maryland and now is in Jailin Louisiana for violating terms of his bail on another report said the Cam Bridge riot can Best reinterpreted As a response to actions of the City i said police got ready for violence when they heard Brown was appearing at a local rally and they acted on the basis of reports from negro officers assigned to the speech that All hell is about to report said the speech was unequivocally militant Radical and revolutionary quoting Brown As saying you Leader of minutemen indicted in plot Seattle a Roberti of hour Depugh 44, founder Anu head of the minuteman or Pun at us and one of his top. Leu Imants have been indicted to " a i Arre Bank robbery the secret Federal grand jury act mints were returned feb. Foj Ami made Public monday by Lii h k ral judge William t. 1 Pep Iilah a i Walter Patrick i Riu 24, both of Norborne ? were charged with conspire to m plans to Rob four suburban Seattle Banks in january after blowing up a police station and Power Plant. The plot was never carried out. Both men were reported being sought by the Fri which said Depugh last was seen several weeks ago in Norborne where lie was growing a Beard for a local festival. Depugh is owner and operator of Biola co., an Ai Simul drily firm in Norborne. Judge Heeks set bail for each Man at $30,000. The minutemen have been de scribed by the Fri As a secret paramilitary organization whose purpose is to defend the unite states after an internal takeover by the communists seven men were arrested Here Jan. 26, the Day the Fri said they planned to blow up the police station and a Power Plant a nearby Redmond As a diversion Ary tactic and then Rob threebank.1 there. Another Bank at Des Moines South of Seattle also was reported by the Fri to have been on their list. Should Burn Down that school and take Over the Hankie school. He burned your elks Home so you could t have any but it also said there is Little evidence that Brown s speech immediately stirred members of the crowd to initiate illegal the Pine Street school and about 20 other buildings were set afire by arsonists More than four hours after the speech and after Brown and policeman had been wounded easy satisfaction critical of news coverage of the riot and its beginnings the report said it May be emotionally satisfying to think that Brown came to Cambridge and therefore there was a riot and it May be simpler for the Public to grasp. But the facts Are More Complex and the existence of a Rio existed for the most part in the minds of City officials and tothe extent that negro disorder occurred it can be interpret Edas a response to actions or the City officials. Brown was More a catalyst of White fears than of negro antagonisms the disturbance More a product of White expectations than of negro initiative refinery blast kills 2 Trull England a an Oil refinery explosion Here monday killed two men and sent 13 others to the Hospital three in Verioti condition. Marine to get new trial in Viet slaying Washington a the Pentagon disclosed monday a naval Board of review has Seaside the court martial convict Ion of a Marine who had Bee accused of killing two South vietnamese civilians and Muti lating one of the bodies. A new trial was ordered in therase of Marine Cpl. Stanley j. Luczko 21, of Gardner mass.,As a result of the Board s Deci Sion feb. 28, the Pentagon had been convicted of premeditated murder in one of the slayings and assessed a sen tence of life imprisonment reduction in rank to private and a dishonourable was acquitted of charges that he murdered South vietnamese male and mutilated the body but he was convicted of killing a South Viet namese Pentagon spokesman said the basis of the Board s decision to set aside the court martial conviction was a question of Luc to s mental condition at the time of the s attorney Frank j. Megee of Marshfield mass.,had moved for the new trial arguing that there had been numerous procedural errors in c uding the i Tirui Daviou or Coer Cion of two witnesses
