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WEATHER 'V VATER Fair Charl ie + W RZ t t U. S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Phone 9-5247 Friday Date March 10, 1967 Radio (1340) TV (Ch. 8) W Red Guard Clash DOD Asks 25 Billion In Canton GENG, MATWAGO (AP) AT LEAST For Militar onstruction 170 PEOPLE were killed or wounded during clashes between WASHINGTON (AP) THE U. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT yesterday asked Red Guards loyal to Mao Tse- Congress for more than$2. 5 million for military construction, Tung and county officials at including more than $360 rn lion for use outside the U.S. Fatshan, near Canton, arrivals The petition for $2, ,238,ooo for the fiscal 1968 from Red China reported today. construction program would "sstrengthen and improve combat The travelers said the most readiness and capability of serious clash occurred last Wilson Faces military land, sea and air Friday when 2,000 Red Guards Problem forces." besieged a Communist Party (The Naval Station and Naval Committee office building Defending US Stance Air Station here will receive where about 700 officials were LONDON (AP) (By Arthur L. $5,518,000 in the construction working. Gavshon) HAROLD WILSON is bill.) After a lengthy argument, finding it increasingly diffi- Projects included are de- according to the reports, the cult to go on staunchly sup- scribed as "long overdue re- officials closed all doors and porting President Johnson's placements" for obsolete and windows of the building. Vietnam policies. outdated facilities of. "The Red Guards eventually Despite some evident embar- structures constructed almost smashed the doors and windows rassments the British Prime 25 or more years ago under the and physically subdued the of- Minister shows no signs of a- World War II mobilization cri- ficials and placed them under bandoning his pro-American teria. house arrest," one traveler stance. Two-thirds of the overseas said. His problems over Vietnam allotment, $217,111,000, Wall posters the next day are nearly as old as his 21- was destined to various reported about 170 people were year-old Labor government. unnamed and classified loca- killed or injured, the sources Lately they have become more tions. said. acute with the intensification The largest portion of the Other arrivals reported a- of American military pressures allotment for areas outside nother clash between Red against the North. the United States, $16,853,000 Guards and factory workers oc- On the military and troop- went for the construction curred Sunday at Fatshan. They morale level the statements by and improvement of Naval said the number of casualties the Johnson administration are and Air Force installa- (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) tions on the island of Guam in the Pacific. Close-by Kawaja- lein Island was second with $14,760,000. Lawyer Says Oswald Framed The United Kingdom was third in the list with $10,627,000 NEW ORLEANS (AP)(By Jack Owens) DEAN ANDREWS, JR., a lawyer followed by Germany, with who told the Warren Commission he thought Lee Harvey Oswald $10,077,000 and Puerto Rico was a "patsy," testified briefly yesterday beforea Grand Jury with $10,042,000. hearing evidence in the District Attorney's investigation of The Panama Canal Zone drew the Kennedy assassination. $9,973,000 for improvement Andrews and Mrs. Josephine Hug were the only two witnesses of Army installations. subpoenaed for yesterday's secret session. Mrs. Hug, a Amounts requested for other tall well-dressed brunette, formerly worked for Clay Shaw, the retired executive accused by DA Jim Garrison of conspiring to kill President Kennedy. PAGE 2 FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1967 GITMO GAZETTE NEW ORLEANS (Continued from Page 1) son LONDON (Continued from Page 1) understood by Parps (County), said: authorities here, who are not greenhorns in "There's three people I am going to find: the arts of campaigning. one of them is the real guy that Killed the On the political level it's another story. President; the Mexican, and Clay Bertrand." The private conversations of some senior Asked then if he had considerable doubt a- government men suggest disenchantment with of- bout Oswald being the assassin, Andrews re- ficial Washington's aims and methods in Viet- plied: "I know good and well he did not. With nam. Among their arguments: that weapon, he couldn't have been capable of --American officials have insisted repeated- making three controlled shots in that short ly they have had no serious proposals for time.this boy could have connived the deal, peace talks from Hanoi. Soviet officials in- but I think he is a patsy. Somebody else pull- cluding Premier Alexei Kosygin seemed to sat- ed the trigger." isfy Wilson last month that serious peace Garrison said recently he didn't believe Os- talks were possible if Johnson ordered a mili- wald killed anybody in Dallas on Nov.22, 1963. tary pause. The Warren Commission concluded that Oswald --Johnson in early February said publicly killed both Kennedy and patrolman J.D. Tippit "just almost any step" by Hanoi would be on that day. enough to bring about an American standoff Andrews told the Warren Commission that Os- against the North. Some British officials wald came to see him about legal matters sev- think he shifted his position by demanding eral times during the summer of 1963, accom- later a reciprocal move by Hanoi such-as halt- panied by a stocky "Mexicano" with a short ing shipments of arms and men southward. butch haircut. Andrews said he had not seen the Mexican since that time. GENG (Continued from Page 1) was not known Andrews said he had met Clay Bertrand "a One traveler said a "huge" bomb was discov- couple of years" previous to that time,adding: ered on the Fatshan Highway Saturday and was "He's the one who calls in behalf of gay kids removed by Army troops. normally, either to obtain bond or parole for It was reported that Army troops had poured them." into Canton in the past 10 days to take up In applying for a warrant to search the home positions along railway lines in coastal of Shaw, former director of the New Orleans areas. International Trade Mart, Garrison's office "The troops were used to combat chaotic stated that Shaw used the alias of Clay Bert- conditions prevailing in Kwangtung Province," rand. one arrival said. Shaw publicly denied that he used an alias, s&id he never had seen Oswald, and called his MANSFIELD, OHIO (UPI) UNITED AUTO WORKERS arrest "fantastic." He is free under $10,000 made an about face and returned to work this bond. morning at General Motors' vital parts factory Garrison has said he has "solved" the assas- here in Mansfield. The second wildcat walkout sination and will bring those involved in the in less than two months at the planthadthreat- conspiracy to justice. ened to cripple the world's largest auto pro- In Dallas, Raymon Cummings, a former cab ducer. A company spokesman said about 900 driver said he told Garrison about driving Lee members of the 1,200-man day shift reportedfor Harvey Oswald and David Ferrie to Jack Ruby's work. Dallas nightclub early in 1963. Ruby killed Oswald in the basement of the Dallas City Jail LONDON (AP) PRIME MINISTER Harold Wilson's two days after the assassination. Ferrie, a Labor Party retained two seats but lost a third former airline pilot, died in bed in New Or- in special elections yesterday to fill \ecancies leans last Feb. 22 while under investigation in the House of Commons. by Garrison. Garrison's office has said that The Laborites suffered big voting i.nroads by Ferrie and Oswald were among the New Orleans Conservatives and Celtic Nationalists in a conspi rators. major electoral rebuff for the Wilson govern- ment. CLINTON, TENN. (AP) OFFICIALS OF MAGNET The Conservatives won the Glasgow division MILLS, largest employer here in Clinton, of Pollok from Labor by a margin of 2,201 announced today that the plant will be closed votes. In the national elections a year ago in consequence of a strike and the danger of Labor won by 1,075 votes. violence. Labor's percentage of the votes cast in all President John Wallner said the plant will three special elections was 38.8, compared "cease all operations"as soon as possible. He with 58.7 in the same parliamentary constit- said the order came down from the New York uencies at the general election. owners Wednesday. A swing on this scale throughout the country Magnet employed about 750 persons before the would give the Conservativesa handsome Commons Textile Workers Union of America called a majority in a national poll. strike Jan. 16. The mill had been in operation But the results still left the Labor govern- ment with a majority of 93 seats over all other parties in the House of Commons. Under British law, Wilson need not call another general election until 1971, U.S. NAVY--AN HONORED PROFESSION. Pages Missing or Unavailable GITMO GAZETTE FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1967 PAGE 7 NEW YORK (UPI) THE NEW YORK Giants are sta- king their future as a football attraction on scrambling quarterback Fran Tarkenton. The Giants aquired Tarkenton Tuesday from Minnesota. In order to obtain Tarkenton, they SPORTS had to trade away their first three draft choices of the next two years plus a player to be agreed upon later. Minnesota will have the choice of any player in the 1967 and 1968 col- lege drafts. The 26-year-old Tarkenton is a six-year veteran. CHET DONNELSON THREW a seven-inning no-hit- NEW YORK (AP) HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION Cassius ter asthe VC-10 Crusaders last night to give Clay hit the canvas in a workout yesterday but the Marine Barracks an easy, 8-0, win in the he was only fooling.