European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes 7 minutemen found Gui Spokane Wash. Up seven men saturday were found guilty in . District court of conspiracy to Rob four Banks in order to bolster the coffers of the Para military minuteman organization. The verdict was returned by jury of eight men and four women after s1/ hours of de liberation. Only three of the defendant were in the courtroom to hear the verdict. The others had been excused in custody of their lawyers for the seven men had maintained the me were merely rehearsing the robbery plan As part of minuteman exercise. The actual robberies were Totake place after the communists actually took Over the country and this was merely an authentic As possible dry run the lawyers told the court. Federal attorneys alleged themen conspired to Rob three Banks in Redmond Wash., Andone in Des Moines Wash., both suburbs of government s Case was based on testimony of a former minuteman who became a spy on the right Wing organization forthe Fri. The former member of the organization Henry m. Warren testified for six Days in the eight Day trial. He said Money from the robberies was to reused to finance minuteman activities. The split they planned to net between$87,000 and $100,000," he said from the witness stand. Each member of the robbery team was to receive $1,000. And $100 month while hiding Warren said the group planned to take Over a police station and blow up an electric Power substation near the Bank before the robberies. However it was later decide that we would use Molotov cocktails to Start two diversion Ary fires. We also planned to acquire either chloroform Orether to put everyone in the police station and Banks to sleep the sex minuteman said. One of the men on trial Ervin. White 41, testified All Warren s testimony was True but he said it All added up to a false conclusion of intent to maintained the defense s argument that the entire scheme was merely an organizational other men on trial were hew officer sworn in Washington Tupi fre Derick Delli Quadri a 53-year old sociologist has been sworn int the White House As the first the children department of health education and welfare. Man to Hea Bureau of the Kelley e. Delano 24 Duane Carlson 35 Milton j. Dix 34 Jerome Diemart 43 Mervyn Henderson sr., 57 and Joseph Hourie 20. All Are from Seattle. Abrams pts Tases Biz reports Saigon a w. Abrams jr., the com Mander in Vietnam said Sun Day there is no formal con Crete factual evidence 6f ene my helicopters being used Al pig the demilitarized zone Doz further Abrams said there was no evidence of North Viet Mese fell willets per timing inthe lower Panhandle area above the Lirie Between the two Viet name. ,. The general s remarks were the latest i a week Long Contro Versy that began with unconfirmed reports of enemy helicopters being shot Down in the zone Flag raising a Marine erects a makeshift pole bearing an american Flag found on a dead Comrade on a Hill near Khe Sanh. The Flag flew during evacuation of 19 bodies. A photo 1o ride Bike 144 hours claim Mark Cohoctah Mich. A ten boys have broken by a full 24 hours what they say was a Bicy Cle Marathon record set in bom Bay India 35 years a single Bike the boys from this East Central Michigan Community Rode Day and night in fair weather and foul including a thunderstorm for 144 said they came across the Indian record recently while looking up baseball statistics in an encyclopedia then verified Itin the local Library s Book of re took 13 Indian boys to Chalk up 120 hours they said. House panel assails no urgent research Washington up Ahouse subcommittee issued a new report sunday complaining that . Research dollars continue to flow abroad for no urgent projects such As a study of the jaws and skulls of australian aborigines. The House government operations committee s research subcommittee headed by s. Reuss d-wis., said that despite its repeated earlier criticism spending year on foreign research most of it in prosperous countries the . Still i about $20 million a soviet trawler eludes argentines Buenos Aires up the Argentine Navy saturday sus Pended its search for a russian fishing trawler which was dash ing for Freedom outside argentin territorial Waters in which it was captured Friday. Navy officials said rough sea Sand poor visibility forced them to give up the Chase. The trawler pay Lovo escape from the armed signal ship a Niana earlier saturday while be ing escorted to mar Del Plata for violating Argentina s 200-m i 1 e territorial limit. The two ship were about 25 Miles off the coast in the Bay of Samb Rombon when the trawler eluded its escort and warplanes were sent after the Pavlov and the fired warning shots in an at tempt to Stop the pay Lovo had been captured along with another russian trawler the Gol Strim after allegedly violating the 200-Milelimit. The ships vere part of a five vessel fishing Fleet spotted by Argentine planes about 120 Miles off the coast. The three other ships escaped. The 2,269 ton Gol Strim was escorted by an Argentine de Stroyer and it docked saturday in mar Del Plata about 400 Miles South of Crew of the Gol Strim was permitted to remain aboard the ship pending a court ruling. Which could afford to foot the Bill. The report also cited projects to study East african primates develop data on the population of Iceland and learn the effector Light on the nerve cells of sea slugs. The report said another study on the relation of air pollution and asthma in Japan appeared unnecessary since there were plenty of pollution and plenty of asthma in the United states. Sponsors of the studies have defended " their value. For example the National Institute of dental research said the $48,637 australian project could provide information useful to . Medical researchers. The atomic Energy commission said the study of the people of Iceland would establish a basis for learning about Gene mutations. The major report called on the Federal research sponsor ing agencies to limit financing of new foreign projects to those which Are urgently needed bythe . And which the foreign country cannot afford to a Nance. It said existing projects should be reviewed in this area the previous Vietnam Sebly three to were shot while Lam said some of the enemy Eon possibly the soviet were downed below thl was never reported thai wreckage was recover1T and vietnamese troops a Wiline said they often saw w lights at night which thai to be helicopters. A late in the week us isaid it was highly p that american fighter to and artillery mistakenly 1�3ifive Allied ships after Fay f the appearance on radar Teclof being Low flying Helicon Tel installation Ceremi Abrams talked to the ated press after an i ceremony for it. Gen. Mildren 54, the new Deputy Mander for the . Anny i added that the i moves of . Troops around flanks of Saigon did not american operations afield. Abrams said the new alignment meets a sit enemy buildup of their tru it s obvious we Don t have i Many troops elsewhere by neither does the enemy a War action enemy ,. Lying in ambush Tore into a cum of South vietnamese re try men moving Down a higl60 Miles Northeast of Saigon i systematically Cut Down than 100 of them Mil spokesmen reported sunday forty four South Vietnam troops were killed wounded in the attack in Broad Daylight saturday the government soldiers Well making a routine move from one base Camp to not along Highway 20.it was one of the worst Fiji setbacks in Many months Hithe South vietnamese army. A second government Meta battalion was airlifted into area by american helicopter reinforce the surrounded unit forty one enemy sold1"were reported killed in the Long action. The reinforcing suffered Only Light casual spokesmen said. Gnu deaths reach 159 by the associated press firearms have taken the j h l 88 58 85 73 80 61 70 64 68 64 92 65 93 64 93 58 74 63 88 69 80 73 93 77 87 66 to --. Temperatures g0 74 me 1albany Atlanta Boston Buffalo Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Denver Detroit fort Worth Houston Kansas City on my
