European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday january 26, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 5 stars find scripts Side cd Lih will hear Noyd s Appeal Washington up therase of capt. Dale s. Noyd an air Force officer who refused to train a fighter Pilot bound for the Vietnam War will be heard by the . Court of military appeals Noyd 36. Was sentenced to one year in jail forfeiture of pay an allowances and dismissal from the service. The incident involving h i refusal to train the fighter Pilot took place in december 1967 a Cannon air Force base . He is currently housing officer a that base. Noyd has earlier asked the air Force to Grant him a conscientious objector status with regard to the Vietnam War Only. The air Force refused. Nixon starts even with Johnson Washington up a poll released Friday indicated that president Nixon has about the same Public support and Confidence As former president Lyndon Johnson had on leaving office six out of 10 americans think he will do a Good Job. The Survey by Sindlinger and co. Showed 61 per cent though Nixon would do a Good Job while Only 5.8 per cent said they thought he would do a bad Job. Some 15.9 per cent said it was too soon to Tell and 17.3 per cent had no opinion. Sec suspends brokerage employees Washington up the securities Ang Exchange com mis Jeh Friday imposed penalties against several employees of one of ithe nation s largest brokerage firms. To separate orders were filed ordering suspensions of salesmen of the Cleveland and los Angele branches of Paine webbed Jackson and Curtis ? the orders Are part of a series of penalties levied against Marti Jowall Street firms in recent months on charges of violating Federal securities Laws. Pilots eject As Jet crashes Goldsboro . Up a Tbs Jet Trainer crashed into Agrotti of apartments at Seymour Johnson air Force base Friday but nobody was spokesman said the two pilots in the Jet ejected and parachuted to safety before the plane crashed into an apartment a Berkeley Village a residential area police charged Grady Eugene Lewis jr., 34, As an accessory to murder by arranging for the slaying of Bis wife mrs. Elizabethan Lewis 32, who was found strangled in the Lewis Home late tuesday night. Authorities charged Gerald Baker 33, with the actual slaying and said he accepted $500 to do the Job. Also arrested and charged with being an accessory was Baker s wife Travis 21. Charged with conceal Ngethe identity of a guilt person were Patricia Peck Ingram 22, and Ronnie Miller 28. Rogers swears in three aides Washington a Secre tary of state William p. Rogers Friday swore in his Deputy an two other High ranking officials of the state Lee Richardson became undersecretary of state. Theother two who took the oath were Richard f. Pedersen Counselor of the state department and e m i 1 Mosbacher jr., chief of protocol. Actor charges wife with adultery Santa Monica up actor Rory Calhoun charged his actress wife Lita Baron with adultery in a divorce suit filed Friday in Santa Monica Superior court. Calhoun asked custody of the couple s three children ranging in age from 8 to 11. He accused his wife of adultery on numerous occasions during August 1966 and in May and june of 1967. Four persons die in Chicago fire Chicago a four per sons died and 17 were injured Friday when fire swept the 36thfloor of a luxury High Rise apart ment building on North Lakeshore drive. Eight policemen were Amon those treated for injuries 01 smoke inhalation. A the dead were residents of the building. Cause of the fire was not immediately determined. Williams to get top drama award new York up Tennessee Williams has been named recipient of the National Institute of arts and letters Gold medal for drama highest american award in the theatrical Field Williams Wili be presented the award Here May ii. He is re ported to be working currently on a screen version of is Story Flea a Phi � image lingers on r these portraits of former president arid mrs. Lyndon b. Johnson now decorate the White House after being Hung the morning of Richard Nixon s inauguration Day. Both portraits were painted by artist Elizabeth Shoumatoff of Locust Valley . A superiors to tie called Bucher testifies in closed inquiry Coronado Calif. A 1the Captain of the Pueblo after our Days of sometimes anguished Public testimony told a court of inquiry behind close doors Friday about secret aspects of its capture and the Captivity of its Crew. Also to testify at the close sessions lasting into tuesday were cmdr. Lloyd m. Bucher superiors. Their statements the skip per s attorney told newsmen would be crucial to his court has told Bucher he is suspected of violating Navy regulations in the surrender of his intelligence ship to North koreans without a fight a year ago. Serious and silent Bucher who wept and broke Down As he told thursday of death threads to himself and his Crew that preceded a confession of spying was serious and silents he entered the session. When he came out at noon he said hews much More relaxed and that the session went well.",the court of five admirals could recommend anything from medals to courts martial. The list of witnesses incl Dedrea a adm. Frank l. Johnson commander of . Naval forces in Japan when the Pueblo was seized and two captains then on his staff Thomas l. Dwyer and Forrest a. of staff Pease was Johnson s chief of staff while Johnson was Bucher s Superior and Dwyer was chief of staff for intelligence. It was to Johnson s Headquarters that Bucher messaged urgent pleas for help saying North korean gunboats were firing at the Pueblo with 57 Mecannon and machine guns. A Navy information officer capt. Vincent Thomas held a briefing for newsmen after the Day s session. He said every thing in Dwyer s testimony an most of Bucher s was classified Arm store president Steps into Romney s shoes Lansing Mich. A Wil Liam g. Milliken a 46-year-old department store president i Michigan s 44th governor. He automatically stepped up from lieutenant governor when gov. George i Romney resigned and was sworn in As Secretary of housing and Urban develop ment Hud in president Nix on s Cabinet. Information but outlined a non secret portion of Bucher s Testi Mony. Thomas said the unclassified information discussed at the closed session included Estimo Wirtz Udall offered to resign Washington a two of former president Lyndon John son s Cabinet members tried to resign in policy arguments it was Learned s accurate said former Secretary of labor w. ,, once one of Johnson s closest advisers of a report that he had offered his resignation last sources confirmed that former Secretary of the Interior Stewart l. Udall in a dispute Over Federal Park policy offered to quit last saturday just two Days before the Johnson administration went out of office. Johnson did not accept the resignations and the two quietly left office along with other officials of Johnson s democratic administration on fire Wirtz submitted his resignation after Johnson under fire from the National governors Confer ence blocked Wirtz s attempt to merge the Federal state employ ment service in the manpower administration in a reorganization of the labor department. The dispute climaxed a Cooling of relations Between Wirtz and Johnson that began when Wirt endorsed a minority report on the Vietnam War at the demo cratic National convention in Chicago last position of Wirtz during the democratic convention was considerable change from his earlier position of defending Johnson s War policies. Wirtz was Johnson s chief speechwriter in the 1964 presidential election told the associate press it s All history now 1have no but it was Learned hat he had tried to Quias Interior Secretary in the Fina Days of the administration. By by Bucher that North koreans discovered hundreds of signals sent Home by the Crew o Tell the United states their spying confessions were phony. After publication of the now Amous photo in a National mag Azine in which the Pueblo crewmen gave a sign of vulgar contempt the North koreans went Back and reviewed All of heir propaganda materials said Thomas. He said Bucher testified that about this time last dec. 12 almost the entire Crew receive severe beatings. Bucher testified last monday hat before the Pueblo left Sase to Japan on a Mission to Check n transmissions from soviet hips and North korean radar he Johnson said they the Pueblo s two .50-caliber machine were to be used in the event that All else failed in extricating ourselves from a harassment situation such As Hadnot been experienced Bucher added he was quit sure that they would never be needed and i was under the def Nite impression that everyone was not in concurrence at com Mander naval forces Japan hat guns should even be locate Don the ship. Uneasy about guns i received this impression i of Many officers up there hat they did not think that they the guns belonged on the ship and Felt a definite they Felt uneasy about putting the Gunson there that we might in fact having the guns draw the Type of reaction from potential enemy forces that we did not want which was an attack on the also said he did not receive heavier guns he requested and was hopelessly out gunned by the North Washington democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Mon Tana forecast investigations of the seizure by the Senate armed services and the foreign relations committees after the court of inquiry ends. Flu declines in .atlanta, a. Up the National communicable disease enter said Friday that the Hong Kong flu epidemic in the unite states showed signs of declining last week. Total deaths reported from pneumonia and influenza since the epidemic began seven weeks ago were 1,436, the Center said
