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Goittplete Football SEE SPORTS PACES Gearing, Cold THEDAILY FlkAL Becoming partly sunny and Red Bank, Freehold cold today. High in the low Long Branch EDITION 40s. Clear, cold tonight. I 7 Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL. 93, 1VO. 108 RED BANK, N. J., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1969 44 PAGES 10 CENTS mmmmmmm Army Judge Hits 'Massacre' FT. BENNING, Ga. (AP) - An Army judge says his gating many soldiers and ex-soldiers in the case. • order for potential witnesses not to discuss My Lai slaying In London, British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart case in public is being defied and has called a meeting of said president Nixon can continue1 to count.oh British back- attorneys today. , ing of U.S. policy in Vietnam even if a massacre occurred. Lt. Col. Reid W. Kennedy, who will establish the Army's SAYS AIMS JUST . legal guidelines in the court-martial of Lt. William L. Calley • Hft said U.S. aims in Vietnam are just and "I don't see Jr., announced yesterday his plans to call the closed session that it is disproved because it is claimed, or even that it is "to come to some kind of conclusion about defiance of an proved, that there has been this atrocity. order to witnesses ... to quit talking to the press." "If it were," he continued, "we ought to have dismissed He gave no indication of the action contemplated. the North Vietnamese case long ago because the deliberate "I can understand almost anything except this con- killing of civilians ... has been a part of the North Viet- tinuous interrogation of witnesses and potential witnesses namese method for-a long time." and the publication of what they say before it is said in • Calley is under no form of confinement here and Is court," Kennedy said. "Something just has to be done about going about his duties as an aide to Col. Talton W. Long, this.". deputy post commander. After his trial was ordered, he CHARGED WITH MURDER was forbidden to leave the Columbus, Ga., area without Calley, a 26-year-old former platoon commander in Com- permission, . pany C, 1st Battalion, 11th Infantry Brigade, is charged ONE OF THREE with murdering 109 South Vietnamese civilians at the Calley is one of three persons assigned to. Long's village of My Lai on March 16, 1968. office. The others are the colonel's secretary and his driver. The Army said Monday it plans to bring Calley before In an interview, Long said Calley was assigned to his a general court-martial. office "to assist me in such ways as he could." Among A day later, Kennedy, who is senior trial judge in the duties to which Calley has been assigned, Long said, were 3 judge advocate's section here, ordered that potential wit- the planning of an improved .parking system at the build- nesses be instructed to discuss the case before trial only ing which houses Long's offices and work on a letterhead • with attorneys involved or Calley. for an infantry museum project. GIVES ATTORNEY ORDER The colonel also disclosed that a month ago, after the He directed Capt. Aubrey Daniel, who will serve as the murder, charges were filed against him Sept. 5, Calley was Army's prosecutor, to inform all witnesses of the order granted- a week's leave to visit his ailing father in Miami, immediately. Fla. In Saigon, yesterday, South Vietnamese Sen. Tran Van "He went by himself," Long said. "He felt he had to get Don said members of his Defense Committee and the Senate home and talk to his father — to reassure his father that Interior Committee will go to Quang Ngai Province shortly he was healthy and well." - • to investigate reports of the slaying. William Calley Sr. is a diabetic. "We do not know "where the truth is and we want to Long described Lt. Calley as "an intelligent, bright, verify what happened," he said. thoroughly capable, young officer. : S. Sgt. David Mitchell has been charged with assault "He conducts himself with the quiet courage of a mat) with intent to murder and the U.S. Army says it. is investi- who knows what he's about," the colonel added. Second Part of Treasure From Moon to Be Checked By HOWARD BENEDICT already initiated as "shell- wog, the traditional name for the largest was seven inches SPACE CENTER, Houston. backs," made Gordon ap- sailors who have not crossed long and * weighed four (AP) — Scientists today open pear at the front window of the equator. MEN ON THE MOON — One of the ApoUo 12 crewmen is reflected in the EVA visor of his fellow noon-walker pounds. the second box of Apollo 12 their quarantine trailer wear- Experts in the laboratory as they explored the surface of the moon. The astronaut carries a container holding some of the moon surface noon rocks, a chest contain- ing his hat and flight suit continued to catalogue and The samples and the grey gathered a,nd brought back to earth for scientific examination. (NASA Photo via AP Wirepfio.to) ing carefully documented backwards. pack into vacuum cans the dust that covers them are samples and soil gouged Wears Sign : '• stones from the first chest, handled in a vacuum cham- from more than two feet be- A sign aroundlils-neck pro- which was opened Wednes- ber by technicians who ex- neath the surface. claimed: "Beware! Luney- day. They reported most of tend hands through glove- • The space agency also wog. Unclean! Unpredict- the samples were larger than plans to release 29 more col- able." Luneywog was a rocks collected by the Apollo ports to avoid exposure to Man Gets First View or ^ pictures taken during the lunar material. moon-age version of polly- 11 astronauts in July and that man's second moon-landing ' mission. Geologists are eager to Of Sun Eclipse by Earth open the second chest to be- gin examination of 12 to 15 By PAUL HKCER pears coal black with the dy- ing away from the command the craft descends. Dust ob- bags of rocks that were pho- SPACE CENTER, Houston ing sunlight rimming its edge ship to start its final swoop scures the view briefly, then tographed and labeled by the (AP) — A black silhouette in white. toward a landing on the quickly settles and craters astronauts before packing. that is the earth chokes off The view is as old as earth moon. It seem to. float grace- show steady and still. The In- And one of the core tubes, the sun. As the light dies, it and sun, but Apollo 12 was the fully away, its gold aluminum trepid had landed. which the astronauts pounded bursts into space with blues first space flight to put men foil exterior glinting in the A number of still pictures, into the surface, is packed and reds and pinks and pure and cameras in the right lo- sun and its ridiculous, spindly, taken by Conrad and Bean with soil from 24 to 30 inches white rimming the earth. cation in space to capJUFe: 'legs pointing toward the light; on the moon's surface, also deep. Scientists believe that It is a scene never seen the scene on film. „. •' ; gray moon surface seen in' were released.. deadly radiation from the sun before Apollo 12 — an eclipse The shortiifflC-a compila-. the background. .£&>• final, does not penetrate this deep scene shows it just'above the They showed the dust-cov- of the sun by the earth. tion pi-scenes taken through- ered astronauts working in and that if there is any form out 'the 10-day Apollo 12 lunar horizon? and slowlymov-- of life on the moon it might Movies of the scene and ing out of sight. the reduced gravity of the others released Thursday by "flight, also included views of have been captured by the the National Aeronautics and Charles Conrad Jr. walking Craters Grow moon, wearing the heavy tube. Space Administration gave on the surface of the moon. A sequence of film shot suits that protect their bodies They emphastae, however, Appears Faceless that evidence from Apollo 11 science and the public their through a lunar module win- but obscure their identities. first views also of man's sec- He appears as a white-suit- and unmanned probes indi- dow as it descended shows There's also a portrait of cates the chance of lunar life ond moonwalking excursion. ed, faceless figure walking another space traveler — the A camera failure prevented stiff-legged across a field of the craters of the moon in unmanned Surveyor 3 space- is extremely remote. all but a few minutes of live charcoal. The lunar soil ap- the background whipping past craft that, landed on the The Apollo 12 astronauts — television transmissions on pears dark grey, pitted with the window. The craters slow, moon's Ocean of Storms 31 Charles Conrad Jr., Richard craters and strewn with F. Gordon Jr. and Alan L. the moon's surface. then begin to grow larger as months before man. Taken by Astronauts rocks. Bean — neared landfall in The eclipse footage was Conrad is seen in a small their quarantine trailer taken by astronauts as they crater, gathering rock with a aboard the carrier Hornet, started back to earth. Alan scoop. His space suit is start- which recovered them from L. Bean called it "the most ling in its whiteness against the South Pacific Monday. Third Suspect Arrive Tonight spectacular sight of the that gloomy world of black whole flight." ground. The Hornet is to reach Ha- A final view is in black Another view shows the waii about 9 p.m.