European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 Thi stars and stripes Friday March of Fri Mem i skyscraper fire lights up Atlanta sky Atlanta i pm Brillian flames turned an unfinished sky scrapers into a Torch Over mid town Atlanta Early thursday spewing burning debris " hat exploded like hand i grenades onto three other buildings including hotel. There were no injuries in the general alarm Blaze which raced through the top four floors of the .17-Story equitable life Assurance building shortly before Midnight wednesday. Thousands of spectators drawn to the fire area were kept Back by police. A four Block area was cordoned off to protect pedestrians and motorists from the fiery rain of lumber from the steel and Concrete Skeleton of the life insurance building. Apparently All that burned was Wood used in framing the con Crete but it was enough to Light the Skyline and was visible for Miles. Hoses hauled up firemen scaled ladders to the third Story then hauled hoses up 22 More stories. They connected the hoses to a Rainwater duct and finally were Able to contain the Blaze More than two hours after it began. Flames spread quickly to the Rhodes iia Verty building next door and to the roof of Thedin Kier Plaza hotel and the Forsyth building across the Street. The Large and popular hotel was quickly evacuated. In the upper rear of the hotel however. Playboy club bunnies served up business As usual to a jammed House. This is one of the i be seen since the Winecoff fire a Veteran fireman said. The Winecoff hotel fire killed 120 persons i Atlanta dec. 7. 1946. Scared but not Hurt one Man trapped in the elevator on the 14th floor of the Rhodes iia Verty building was rescued by police who Man was scared but not fanned out across the downtown intersection Justoff famed peach tree Street at five Points and braved falling boards and burning debris to keep the fire from and nightclubs nearby closed soon after the fire was reported and men in evening clothes and women i cocktail dresses mingled with the pieces of Timber apparently framing were whistling Down and hitting like hand grenades on the streets Saidoff duty Deputy sheriff Charles haves. Political Roundup Mccarthy warns of wartime curbs Washington up Mccarthy campaigning in Chicago said wednesday that businessmen must be prepared to accept wartime economic controls if Vietnam War costs continue to the Republican Side a draft movement was started in Al Bany n.y., for Civ. Nelson Rockefeller which would designate him As the state s favorite son candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. Although president Johnson has still to announce his candidacy atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark campaigned for him in Madison,wis., As one of several administration spokesmen stumping Wisconsin before tuesday s presidential primary calmly accepted draft cards from two University of Wisconsin students then went onto predict there would be less Chance of widespread City riot ing this vice president Rich Ard Nixon s Law partner Joh Mitchell said in Indianapolis that the front running Republican presidential candidate was in an even better position now that he has no Active rivals for the Republican nomination. Mitchell in Indianapolis to file Nixon s name in the May 7 in Diana presidential primary said that those promoting Rockefeller s candidacy were More in the citizens area. They do not seem to have the political muscle required to get Dele Nixon became the first presidential candidate actually to file in Indiana. His petitions were delivered to the Secretary of state in mid afternoon wednesday. He was expected to have no Tion in the Hep Hcan or in Albany hotel eras touched and Scepi Ful at the move to have run As a new York favour 5which was supported by Fol Jacob javits and new Yor mayor John Lindsay. M in Chicago Mccarthy 8, of the inflation of . M have risen directly or Indi redly from the Vietnam warn government would have to impose new taxes and Perham wage and Price controls. Supporting word presidential candidate George Wallace takes time out for a word with one of his supporters during an Atlanta press conference. The former Alabama governor is tour ing Southern states before More campaigning in North. Up iic9, Lig collide St. Louis to. Up an Ozark air lines dc9 Jet and alight plane collided almost head on As the Airliner was making Landing approach wednesday night to Lambert St. Louis Airport. Two persons aboard the Light plane were killed. The twin Jet Airliner with 44 passengers and a Crew of four and another plane Captain not Crew member landed safely despite damage to its Wing fuel tank and one engine. The Airliner was Ozark s flight 965from Chicago to St. Louis. The Light plane crashed at the end of a Road North of the Airport in suburban bodies were found near the wreckage police Small Cessna disintegrated in the air after the Adams a Motorist who witnessed the collision while waiting for a traffic Light said i saw the Jet pass behind thei Cessna and the Cessna just i seemed to float Over and hit it. It did t seem to turn it just floated the Cessna s Wing Felli off and one of the bodies and the fuselage started spiralling Down together about 10 feet apart Adams Motorist said he saw some smoke belch from the Jet after the collision but larger Craft straightened and went on the bodies of John Brooks the up 34, 21 House members join f Bill would repeal 64 Tonkin vote Washington up Twenty Wolff d-n.y., referring to state one members of the House joined to try to thursday in a move repeal the wifi to Gulf Resolution. We have the Gauntlet said Hep. Lester ments by the administration that if Congress is unhappy Over the it should re of Tonkin i Tonkin Resolution taken up peal it. Wolff is principal sponsor of a Bandit s no Itoh Lilii Hood Nottingham England a Harold Mullinger 29, put on his Hest suit and Rode of to town on u woman s bicycle to Rob u Bank. He stopped at a Crossroads in route neatly parked the Green am White Cycle mid collected his sawed off Shotgun from behind a usually kept it there for his poaching was Early arriving at the Small Market town of Alford so he left Liis bicycle in the Market place did a hit of window shopping and Hud a cup of a a before marching into the Bank at 2 50 Norman Nelson was Busy with a customer but Mullinger did t mind waiting. He sat quietly for a few minutes until he was invited into Nelson s office. They discussed opening an account while mulling i kept the Shotgun under his coat. As he Rose to leave Guilinger showed the gun and asked How much Money is there in the Bank Nelson said he did t knew hut told a clerk to fill a bag with Money. About $4,800 was packed. Then Nelson politely pointed out that theban had closed and that Mullinger was locked robber ordered a Bank assistant to climb Over a counter and open the door. At hut Point Nelson grabbed the gun. An alarm was h of and the police arrived. 1 prosecutor Brian Woods told Nottingham court that Mullinger s was a wildly optimistic attempt at a Lynnell defending agreed it was in absurd . Was jailed for five years. Measure that would terminate the Resolution. The administration has repeatedly cited it in answering critics who say it has escalated the Vietnam War with out consent of Congress. Wolff told a new conference his purpose in introducing the re Pealer was not to put administration policy to a test but to restore to Congress us rightful role in the decision making process sen. J. William Fulbright d Arkoe of the strongest critics of the. Way the administration Lias used the Tonkin Resolution As authority for fit Hting the War called meanwhile for president Johnson to create a new top level a St aimed solely at ending the War. Snow i alls in 141 up lems Las Palmas. Canary islands a tourists who tame to Bathe on this Island of the Sun climbed thursday to m f the Miuwa the first in Many Imi Here. I plane 2 killed Hazelwood and Bob alien pied Mont mo., were found near the wreckage of the Liht plane. The Federal aviation administration said that Allen was a flight instructor and Brooks Hada Pilot s License. It was not determined who was at the controls of the Cessna. Wreckage of the Liht plan narrowly missed falling onto a warehouse. 3 pig valves placed in human heart Leeds England a surgical team transplanted hirer valves from a up to the hear of a woman Momiy i what is believed Here to have Boon a unprecedented operation Leeds infirmary disclosed. The woman mrs Tow a 3x-year ill two was report satisfactorily. Medical sources called the operatic first of its leading British heart sur Geon informed of the operation called it comic mall. But a Mother in London chaps the he would not have himself. Alfred tunning. 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