i— ? y -F- s k vtm g t IMIy Net Press Run For Hie Week Ended The Weather danaary t, 1968 Variable cloudlneiia tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight 10 15,534 to 16. Tomorrow, 26 to 80. * Manchester— A City of Village Charm V(H.. LX X X V n, NO. 112 (TWENTY-FOUR PAGES—TWO SECTIONS) MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1968 (Okuwlfled Advertiaing on Page 21) PRICE SEVEN CENTS r Park; Vdhce Talk 0 South Viet Warplanes Bomb For Three Hours SEOUL (AP) — South Korean Park said the meeting was held command's proposal to meet to­ President Chung Hee Park is re-, in a "sincere atmosphere.” day, but it was indicated that Red Troops in Hue’s Citadel ported considering a trip to talk Neither side would say wheth- the Communists proposed meet­ wlth President Johnson if U.S. ei\any progress was made, ing Wednesday and that this presidential envoy Cyrus Vance Johnson sent Park a personal would be acceptable to the U.N doesn’t resolve the U.S.-South letter last Thursday, and Fance Korean rift over Korean securl- ^as expected to deliver smother military spokesman such letter today. Informed Ko- said four North Koreans crossed Vance smd Park met for the rean sources said Johnson may into South Korea around mid­ Allied Drive first time today. Vtuice’s mis- have invited Park to Washlng- night Sunday, but American sl<m is to quiet South Koretm ton suid, depending on the re­ sentries repelled them in a brief A fears that the United States is suits of his talks with Vsmce, clash. No casualties were re­ Is Part of tending toward appeasement in Park may decide to go. ported. the Pueblo Incident and neglect- m a move welcome to the There was speculation that ing the increase in the infiltra- South Koreans, the American Vance would also meet wlttx All-Out Try North Korean representatives V tlon of armed North Koreans officers who head the U.N. Com- before his scheduled departure Into the South^ • ^ mand in Korea asked for a Tuesday afternoon. The United SAIGON (AP) — Vietnamese Park and Vance met for three meeting with North Korea to ^ r '^Norti' K yjr^'have warplanes bombed and strafed hours today. The U.S. Embassy claims of Communist truce vlo- held five secret meetings since t , Communist forces holding out in said..the talks included a "free, lations "in and through the de- the Communists seized the U.S. Hue’s Citadel today after U.S. frleridly and candid exchange of militarized zone." intelligence-gathering ship Marine reinforcements were views,” while a spokesmajt for North Korea rejected the Pueblo Jan. 23. sent into the walled fortress for No official reports have come the first time in the two-week out of the talks, but reliable Ko­ battle. rean sources said they believed The allied assaults were part three Injured Pueblo crewmen of an all-out effort to drive the Long Chase Ends and the body of one sailor who (JOmmunist North Vietnamese died would be returned soon. regulars and Viet Cong guerril­ The secret meetings milled las from areas they have held the South Koreans, traditionally since Jan. 31. Man, Girl Jailed strong allies of the United The Communists, holding the States, who are more concerned Citadel’s southeast comer, put about the security threat raised up a hall of .60-caliber antiair­ by the Communist commando craft fire at the attacking raid into Seoul Jan. 21 in an at­ planes. Cloud cover lifted to In Two Slayings tempt to assassinate President permit the first air attack on ___ Park. the fortress in 10 days. PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Brown and the girl waived ex- The commandos failed, bi.: a Two companies of Marines— Benny Brown, who vowed he tradition proceedings and were police chief was killed in a gun about 300 to 400 men—entered would never be taken alive., and turned over to Sheriff Phillip battle with them only 8(X) yards the Citadel from landing craft Faye Dawson his girl friend. Wood of Autauga County Sun- from the presidential mansion, sent up the Perfume River Sun­ were in an Alabama Jail today, day. Allied forces later killed 27 of day and another two companies arrested in connection with Sheriff Gary McConnell of the infiltrators and captured of Leathernecks were taken to slayings in Georgia and Ala- Chattooga County, Ga., went to one. the Citadel’s northern wall by bama. Prattville Sunday night to con- South Korean officials also assault boats today. Brown, 23, and Miss Dawson, fer with Alabama authorities on were expected to ask Vance for The Marines have already re­ rd 16, were arrested Saturday the Georgia charges. No date return of operational control of captured the southern part of night at a roadblock near Ma- for arraignment or preliminary their 660,000-man armed forces, Hue in a series of street battles con. Miss., following a chase hearing was set and the couple now held by American Gen. in the old imperial capital since through three states which left was held without bond. Charles H. Bonesteel III, the the Communists attacked Hue two persons dead and lour oth- Brown was charged with mur- commander of U.N. forces in in the early stages of their big ers wounded. der in the Friday night shooting South Korea. offensive against 35 cltTes and Georgia officials reported of Connie Willingham, 16, of The South Koreans also have towns. South Vietnamese troops telephone calls from Brown Sat- Menlo, Ga., in Summerville, been pressing for more U.S. pushed the Communist troops urday warning them not to Three other youths were wound- help in modernizing and ex- into one comer of the Citadel come after him because he ed in that shooting. pandlng their armed forces, but had been unable to drive would never be taken alive and goth Brown and Miss Dawson t'lesioent Johnson has asked A Vietnamese army ranger checks the back pwket of a civilian in Saigon. (AP Photofax). them out. saying he intended to make a charged with murder in the Congress for $100 million in spe- The U.S. Marine force in Hue nm lor it. shooting of Hugh Boyd, 47, of military aid to Korea, but was about 1,000 men. AP corre­ But Mississippi authorities Montgomery Saturday near Parle’s government said it was spondent George McArthur re­ lies said Brown offered no rests- here. Boyd's son, 21-year-old concerned alwut funda- ported from Hue that the Ma­ (S) tance when captured Saturday Marine Sgt Harry Neal Boyd "laatal security problems than The Light Side Coast Navymeii Killed rines were meeting only occa­ "iKht. ^as shot and seriously wound- one-Ume appropriaUon. TRICKY BALLOT / J sional sniper fire in the southern "I think at the roadblock ed - Korean legislators have BELTON, S.C. (AP) — James part of the city 400 miles north Brown srfw he didn’t have much grown and his girl friend just suggested vrithdrawal of (he of Saigon. .«u,u.AJ-iiian Korean force in Viet- Mattlson will be the mayor no of a chance, looking down those happened to meet the Boyds in 7 ur,rrw. mnitpr which man wins Tues- He said there were indications shotgun barrels,” said J.D. prat^ lle, said Wood. "They nam to meet the crisis at home matter which man wins nies all North Vietnamese troops had unless the United States takes day.’s elecUon. As Jet Hits Bridge In Fog Slay, head of the Meridian, withdrawn from the fighting for Miss., patrol district. (See Page Twenty-Three) what they consider a firmer The incumbent mayor is stand in Korea. James C. ‘Jamie” Mattlson. His the south side, leaving only lo­ SAN FRANCISCJO (AP) — Air Station in Southern Califor- Red-White-and-Blue Navy star cal guerrillas, including some In the United States, the Gal- opponent, a newcomer and no Two men in a Navy jet trainer, nia. The Navy said they were on Insignia, lay scattered on the who infiltrated among the 30,000 ^Ict lup Poll reported only three out relation, is James A. "Squat” a routine weekend training mis­ roadway. San Francisco-bound (C) hurtling through thick fog, civilian refugees. Mattison. sion. traffic was halted 2V4 hours. (See Page Eleven) The nicknames are on the bal­ crashed in flames into the San Lt. Col. Phan Van Khoa, prov­ Seconds before the crash, It was the second time a Navy ince chief, mayor of Hue and lot to help the voters. Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, truck driiver Ronlald Terry of El- plane flying out of the Alameda t-TS ► -w ^ district military commander, NEWLYWED ARRESTED scorching girders and tearing pbrante was heading toward air station has struck the 8-Vi- said Communist troops in Hue crosspieces Sunday. San Francisco witly8,050 gallons mile long bridge. The first was INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (AP) — executed 300 civilians Friday Shattered remains of the T33, of jet fuel in a tanl^ truck. in 1943, when Navy Lt. J. L. and buried them in a mass State News Six young men, including one Morrelle, 24, a reservist from which had taken off from near­ ” . .1 hear this jet coming,” grave south of the city. He said (C> married Saturday, were arrest­ by Alameda Naval Air Station, he said. ” I look up and I see a Georgetown, Tex., was killed ed and accused of taking pro­ the grave was in an area not yet continued past the five-lane big streak. There were flames when his single-seater hit sus- <C) Clues Sought perty to furnish the newlywed’s reached by allied forces but that om- westbound upper bridge road- all over the place.