European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes police cancel search for girl in polka dots los Angeles up the girl in the polka Dot dress who reportedly fled the scene of the killing of sen. Robert f. Ken Nedy was a figment of the imagination of an overwrought Ken Nedy Campaign worker police said cancelled the All Points bulletin for the mystery woman allegedly seen in the hotel Kitchen where Kennedy was shot june 5. They said Sand Serrano whom they described As overwrought imagined she saw the girl fleeing the ambassador hotel crying we just shot sen. Serrano 20, a youth for Kennedy Volunteer from Alta Dena calif., told police she swathe girl on the Terrace of the hotel a few moments after the said the girl was running accompanied by a Young Manof latin appearance and said we shot Serrano said she asked who did you shoot she told police the polka Dot girl replied we just shot sen. John Powers of the los Angeles detective bureaus id Friday that the girl was overexcited after the slaying and that police Are satisfied that the Story is without factual , Powers announce ment did not discredit testimony Given the county grand jury by another witness that a girl in polka Dot dress was standing be Side Sirhan b. Sirhan Kennedy suspected killer just before the with girl Vincent Thomas Dipierro apart time waiter at the hotel said he saw Sirhan smiling an chatting with a girl with a pretty figure whose hair was unkempt and who wore a Lousy polka Dot dress. The waiter said he never saw her after the gunplay in which Kennedy was shot in the head and five other persons were wounded. Powers statement appeared to cover Only the incident involving miss Serrano. There was no mention of the girl Dipierro told the grand jury he women who wore polka Dot dresses to the Kennedy rally at the ambassador the night of the California primary election Are known to have contacted police. All were sent Home after it became Clear that they were not connected with the on life in another development sir Han s lawyer Russell e. Par sons was reported to have received threats on his life. Michael a. Mccowan a private detective who works for Par sons said the attorney will approach los Angeles police Mon Day with a request for personal Protection. Police chief Tom Reddin said it would be made available de pending on what kind of threats he has received and How alarmed he really something borrowed grand Forks . A potato growers j n the re Driver Valley Are striking Back at the Rice Industry which Las year aimed pail of its Advertis ing at the alleged weight Caus ing characteristics of potatoes. The potato growers association thursday suggested throw ing potato flakes instead of Rice at weddings. Parachute swim to ship Lajes men save Seaman " Lajes Field azores is a Seaman is bleeding to death. He needs medical assistance immediately or he will die came the radio message from the norwegian ship Pola Prins 250 Miles Northeast of the azores in the Atlantic wednesday night. Within minutes the 57th Aero space Rescue and recovery so based Here had its Alert hc130h Hercules helicopter airborne an headed on an interception route to the vessel. On Board the Rescue aircraft were Pilot capt. Franklin w. Wat Kins flight surgeon capt. Sher Man j. Horan and Para Rescue men t. Sgt. Michael p. Budka and sgt. David p. Ortiz. Arriving Over the ship shortly after dark Horan discussed the situation by radio with the ship s Captain. The Seaman had bleed ing ulcers. The ship had no plasma or Means to administer it and it was necessary to use the Para Rescue men to save the Seaman s life. Budka and Ortiz wearing scuba suits and Laden with medical supplies parachuted into the cold Atlantic and swam through three to five foot swells to the ship. They administered plasma tothe bleeding Seaman Arne to Hansen and treated him for Shock. Johansen began to improve and Budke and Ortte remained on Board to a where recovering. " space Rescue enter. Saigon Harbor 105111111 Dud British freight is sea see the place is Italy but the contest is the fourth festival of German beauties and with German Starlet Cindy Fischer on hand for the Riccione Clambake who can argue about such a Little item As geography. Associated press photo from a and Saigon a Salvo of eight 105mm shells slammed into the Saigon waterfront area Satur Day and one round luckily a Dud hit the British Coal freighter London statesman. The Shell slowed into the vessel but did not explode. A second exploded alongside an shrapnel killed one vietnamese woman Stevedore and wounded another. We were Lucky said Cap Tain Peter Wright. There were 60 to 80 people working in the compartment next to where the Shell the Dud punched a Hole in the freighter Side and ripped through two bulkheads. Only by americans the Dud was identified As a105mm artillery round. Only american forces in the area use such shells. An american Mili tary spokesman said such a weapon might have fallen int guerrilla hands but an investigation was under Way to deter mine whether the shells were fired by american batteries North and Northwest of vietnamese stevedores announced that because of the shelling they will work Only in Daylight. It was not expected to seriously impede Allied ship , military sources disclosed that the . Command has pulled thousands of Ameri can infantrymen in from outly Shook i agriculture department poor begin Vigil at . Agency Washington up More than 150 poor people s March ers Friday started what the called a weekend Long Vigil at most of the entrances to the agriculture department s two buildings where 80 were arrested the Day before. Two were seized for unlawful Assembly and disorderly con duct an hour and a half after the demonstration started at 5 30 . When the building were All but deserted for the weekend. A policeman pushed on Young demonstrator slightly to one Side. The youth pus Hedback. A cry went up and dozens of policemen and demonstrators started running to the spot. But police officers with bullhorn and March leaders called Back their forces and another mass clash was averted. About 100 policemen carrying tear Gas canisters and Lilly clubs were stationed near the build Ings when the demonstrators arrived and blocked nearly Al the entrances. The Rev. Jesse Jackson the demonstration Leader said his followers would Camp out Over the weekend in an attempt to sensitize the nation to the fact that some Farmers we repaid billions not to farm. He indicated a showdown Alabama attorney will defend Ray London a Arthur , Alabama laywer and politician said thursday he will defend James Earl Ray against charge of murdering Martin Luther King the negro civil rights Leader. But Hanes former mayor of Birmingham ala., said he is not Likely to be allowed to see Ray who is being held in the former death cell at London s wands Worth prison pending an extradition hearing at Bow Street magistrate s court june 27. Would come monday when office workers returned to their Job sin the building. Jackson said there will be no new business Here until old business of eliminating hunger is trans , the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy said the poor people s marchers will have Tobe carried out if the Interior department refuses to extend a permit for the use of the Park for resurrection oily beyond its expiration Date of sunday said the Southern Christian leadership Confer ence had sent staff members to various cities to recruit More demonstrators for the seven week old demonstrators marched Down the sidewalks of Independence Avenue which divides inc two agriculture buildings an stopped at each doorway on tiie Avenue dropping off Small groups to stage a sit in at me doorways. Up dispatches ing provinces and in a ring around m Tal. The aim is to threatened third of Saigon by the commit is Mand and to Cut Doi shellings that have the City s three million i Tants. In another move Toa massing of North vie. And Viet Cong troop attack on the capital Ortity has been Given. Strikes on outlying Viet staging areas. The eight Jet bombers eel with helping thwart Viet Cong assaults on f and Khe Sanh along the Itari Zed zone have been a similar Mission in the Farea the b52 strato fortresses de guerrilla position with explosives that. Capital More than 2 1 spokesmen i bombers hit targets Nothan 21 Miles from a patently the b52s dropped biggest bombs i since residents of a could feel the Wallop plotting error1 the spokesmen also w As a result of a plot ""1they erroneously re Poi saturday that b5fc targets inside Norm w they said the bomber rarely have defied. Monist antiaircraft a above the 17th parallel i the North from they had hit in the of the demilitarized South vietnamese Spok Smen said 33 killed and six wounded s bus was blown mine on Hig Way he Hoa in coastal pm Early saturday the e Ese civilians incident in inc. . 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