European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 04, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday february 4, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 5 Brieher hurled Coffee cup at korean gunboat Coronado Calif. A Lloyd Mark Pete b u c h e r kicked some pipe fittings swore and hurled a Coffee cup at the North korean gunboat coming alongside the intelligence ship told a court of inquiry which resumed monday after Athree Day recess about booting the pipes and about his Sailor language. But he saved the Story about the Coffee cup to Tell Friend. Bucher grabbed the cup fro the Pueblo s Bridge and Flung it across a chunk of the sea of Japan. It shattered on the deck of the gunboat. It was a study in frustration says it. Cmdr Alan Hemphill a close Friend who once served with Bucher. Hem Phill thinks there is a growing misconception about the skipper who surrendered his ship resulting in 11 months of Captivity for the s being pictured As a humanitarian sort of a Good Guy Charlie Brown who d give up his ship no matter what to keep his men from getting Hurt says was indeed deeply torn Between the loss of his ves Sel and the safety of his men says Hemphill. Bucher told the court he passed the word prepare to receive the koreans aboard to prevent the Slaughter of his it was t until the North koreans threatened to shoot his men in front of him one by one starting with the youngest Bucher said that he decided to confess to ," says Hemphill those were rational decisions that Pete Bucher made. He decided that the lives of his men would buy him nothing. He could have compromised in his decision. He could have let them kill say 20 of his men or More. But he knew they would have taken his ship any Way. He had seen How they Tor tured a South korean and he knew he would have signed a confession eventually. They would have broken him me anybody. What would you buy by allowing your men to be shot that would t have been rational. Pete made a rational Deci Sion one i think any officer would have made including the admirals even those crusty old types who say he should have gone Down to the last there s no second or third place for Pete Bucher says Hemphill. There Are Only win ners and losers. He s a naval officer who loves to that s Why the last thing he did and he did t say this i court was that he threw his Coffee cup at Thorn. It was study in Hemphill has known Bucher since they served on the submarine Jonquil in 1962. Bucher was executive officer and hem Phill operations officer. Hemphill says he would be a mess Cook for Bucher if he could serve unc him again. Stars ind Stripe Sam Side three drown As ice gives Way Pulaski . A two children and a Man were drowned sunday at Sandy Pondon the Eastern Shore of Lake Ontario when the car fro which they had been ice fishing crashed through a weak spot inthe ice. The children s father and a 7 year old brother escaped from the vehicle after it Sank into the icy 12-foot-deep water. Four divers brought up the bodies of James Colvin 4, Teresa Colvin 8, and Theodore an Derson described by state police As in his 50s. Four youths killed by leaking Gas Milton . Up four High school students were found dead from Gas poisoning in an isolated Cabin near Here sunday. Police said the four who were not immediately identified were found dead in their bunks. Gas was leaking from a cooker Supply. Peggy Guggenheim robbed Boston a Peggy Guggenheim Niece of Solomon r. Guggenheim for whom the Guggenheim Art museum in new York was named was robbed of$100 by two teen aged purse snatchers police . Guggenheim 61, an internationally known Patron of the arts told police the youths grabbed her handbag As she walked near Fenway Park. Hearings set on hot dog contents Washington a Public hearings on proposals to set Stan Dards for hot dogs and other cooked sausage products have been set for May 1.the proposals include limitation of the fat Content of sausages to 30 per cent and liberalized Labelling requirements which would permit poultry meat in sausages identified As frankfurters or youth beaten to death in theater Albany . A a 17-year-old White youth was killed sunday night at a theater i downtown Albany during the screening of a movie which deals with racial violence. Huge Gas explosion set off i Hattiesburg miss. A described As the largest controlled Gas explosion Ever detonated anywhere was touched of sunday in an underground Salt Cavern Here. It packed the punch of about 315 tons of methane Gas blast simulating a nuclear explosion was the first in a series of three defense department experiments to improve the detection of nuclear detonations. School strike agreement reached the youth was reportedly beaten with a pipe in the second Balcony of the Palace theater five blocks North of the state Capitol police movie was Jersey City . A a tentative agreement was reached sunday night to end the teachers strike which began Jan. 23. The schools were to be close monday while the agreement Vas voted on by the striking the contract is ratified the schools will reopen tuesday. Bess Myerson takes consumer Post new York a Bess Myerson a former miss America an television personality has been named commissioner of consumer affairs for new York City. T my t
