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-• ■ C S > c . f ^ X A venge Daily Net Press Run , For Fho Week Ended The . Weather April 22, 1061 Gradual clearing this eve> nlng, possible frost tonight, lo # 28-32; mostly sunny and c6nl 1 5 ,1 3 4 tomorrow, hl|^ 49-80. ManeheMter-^A City of Village Charm . VOL. LXXXVI, NO. 173 (TWENTY-FOUR PAGES—TWO’ SECTIONS)' MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1967 (ClaMlfled Advorttofaif on Fngo 21) PRICE SEVEN CENIR to 'M i:!:. Chute Fails %&$■ •:.tZ'-. •'-. ft- Twisted Ropes Cause %■■-. A^.V U.S. Jets Attack i Spaceship to Crash V ‘^ ' -*• •'• VfrJ* . ■ - ■ .-.xx ■•.' ■ MIG Airfields •. MOSCOW (AP) — Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov SAIGON (AP) — U.S. Air Kep, 37 miles northeaist of Ha- plummeted to death from a height of more than four Force and Navy planes made no; miles when his spacecraft Soyuz 1 tried to land today, their first attack of' the Vietnam Pilots reported both missiotis the government announced. war today on MIG jet siirfields were successful, U S. headquar It was the first time either of ----------------------------------------------- - in North Vietnam, while some ters said, but there'’ was no re the two space powers has re- jhe moon with the United 20,000 U.S. and South Vietnam port of the damage. ported the death of an astronaut hampered. ese ti’oops made a massive as Elsewhere in the ground war, on an operation. The fiery death of three U.S. sault on three Communist jun U.S. Marine and Army infantry Moscow radio said ropes of astronauts in an ApoWo space gle redoubts in War Zone C. men clashed repeatedly with the parachute meant to ease the capsule on the launching pad of A U.S. command spokesman scattered enemy farces 1 1 South landing twisted, and the >hip hit Kennedy Jan. 27 has set 1 < said U.S. Air Force F4C Phan Vietnam’s threatened northern with great force, killing the 40' back the American program. • i ’<: toms hit one North Vietnamese prornnces. The U.S. commend year-old veteran cosmonaut. The veteran Komarov, a colo- airfield at Hoa Lac, 19 miles reixuted a total of 91 enemy Tass news agency said the pj,^ ^ Voskhod >>i% -A ¥ ■ ■ west of Hanoi, while Havy A4s dead. spaceship had pajssed safely 1, the first three-man spacecraft MM ■ 4 M' , and A6s hit a second jet field at In the Communist C Zone through the most difficult brak to go aloft in October 1964. H« north of Saigon, helicopter-^ ing stretch in the dense layer of yj.g,j to go into ; | , u " v ■'■S'- borne troops fanned out through the atmosphere space twice. the bamb-soarred, defoliated "However, when the main During a television broadcast .ii~ April Cold countryside behind thick smoke cupoloa of the parachute opened y^^ ^ occupied by a screens laid by other helicop at an altitude of seven kilomet, portrait — trimmed in black — ters. ' ers —4.3 miles the straps of cosmonaut in uniform. Sets Record; As the advancing ground the parachute, according to pre- ThoB was the same photogiwph Helmeted troopers bear the coffin of Konrad Ade troops uncovered supply caches liminary reports, got twisted which — without the black trim and stubborn guerrillas, heavy and the spaceship descened at a nauer into the Cologne cathedral where the body Snow Falls — was carried in special edi tanks of three armored squad great speea which resulted in tions of Soviet newspapers Sun will lie in state until funeral services tomorrow rons crashed wide lanes in the Komarov s death,” Tass added. morning. (AP Photofax) CHICAGO (AP)—(Late April day when the Soyuz flight was cold drove temperatures to rec jungle and mowed down clear Komarov, 40, on his second hailed as a triumph, ings for future helicopter as ord lows today in the midcon space venture, rode Soyuz into Soviet news media said the saults. tinent and heavy snowfalls orbit Sunday amid speculation cosmonaut died today but did whitened the east. The operation, named Man another would be sent up for an give the exact time of the LBJf Kissinger An overnight fall of more than hattan, put about four brigades Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov attempt to rendezvous. accident nor where this had tak The first firm initlmation that 3 inches in Chicago hampered of Amer.cen troops and a regi en place. ment of Vietnamese into the something might have gone R had been predicted in un cleanup and repair work in ar 1 eas ravaged by tornadoes Fri field, plus supporting armor, wrong came when the govern- conformed reports that the S<^ ment newspaper izvestfa de day. artillery and aviation battalions. yuz 1 flight would last up to a In Bonn Review layed its Monday evening edi Havre, Mont., had a 4 above The American units were de U.S. Issues Appeal week. The death announcementa tion withoiit explanatlonr' BONN, Germany (AP) — er would be ready to talk with zero reading this morning, the ployed on both sides of the Sai indicated it was meant to end The official announcement today and everything went aU President Johnson today ex West German leaders. lowest ever there for this date gon River about 30 miles north pressed America's sorrow at the “ I wanted to assure the new in the season and a record low west of Saigon, with troops from said Komarov had completed All right until the last moments. For in mdssians successfully before the There had been speculation death of former Chancellor Kon government that our people for the third straight day. the 25th Division along the rad Adenauer and invited Chan would be available at their re southern sector and 1st Infan acoidient. ' ’ that a Imikup of Komeoxiv with a Other records included Rock WASHINGTON (AP) — In the with an expression of sorrow at He wiM be given a hero’s buri cellor Kurt Georg Kie.singer to quest," he said. try Division troops on the north. second' spaceship would be a ford, HI., 16; Sioux Falls, S.D. light of the second space trage- the death of Soviet Cosmonaut al in Red Square. step toward an-orbiiting spoca visit him at Christmas or any Kiesinger has been chancellor 20; Des Moines, Iowa, 24; To Three Vietnamese battalions since Dec. 1. He has not since dy in three months, the United Vladimir Komarov with a call Komarov’s death raised spec r t » other time. peka, Kan., 28; St. Joseph, Mo. were moving overland north- (See Page Ten) ‘■ visited the United States. ^ i r> States issued a str(»ig appeal for U.S.-USSR space coopera- ulation whether the Soviet race The President told reporters 27; Kansas City, 27; Concordia, ^ i t rom en C3rt through the ti-Qjy cooperative ef- tion "on a realistic basis.” afterward that he and Kiesinger Johnson told reporters he re Kan., 28, and Wichita, Kan., 32. minded Kiesinger that on sever ™ manned exploratitm to Webb emphasized, in a formal had reviewed recent contacts Freezing weather extended as uaryno-,, during Operation, oeoar moon and beyond. statement, that President John- ' i . ' . al occasions West German Falls. between American and West far south as the Texas panhan James E. Webb administrator ready to act on a coopera- German officials, including Vice chancellors had come to see Contact was reported light, dle. Dalhart, Tex., had 30. of the National Aeronautics and basis, especially in view of President Hubert H. Hum- Christmas week. He Frost and freeze warnings for Teamsters Voting added that he would be “ very (See Page Ten) Space Administration, coupled possibility that cooperation phrey's recent trip. tonight spread from the lower might have averted the Soviet He added that Secretary of happy to see him in the United ■ space accident today or the one State Dean Rusk and Secretary at (^ristmas, or at any (See Page Ten) last Jan. 27 in which three U.S. of the Treasury Henry H. Fowl- hme. Johnson also said he and Gen. Westmoreland: astronauts died in a spacecraft Against Contract, Kiesinger had agreed to meet fire on the ground. again Wednesday "to exchange Snow Use Informed sources here said independent ’Truck Drivers Un 1 0 Violent Deaths WASHINGTON (AP) — Early views on several problems of Soviet scientists apparently fragmentary returns from ion are not part of the national mutual interest.” Today is a snow day for made several attempts to bring Teamsters Union voting were bargaining unit. several area school systems Antiwar Protesters 4 Teen-agers A spokesman for the West the Soyuz 1 spacecraft back to running nearly 2 to, 1 today There was no immediate indi — including Manchester’s — German government said to earth before it crashed and against a proposed national con cation whether negotiations be and the weatherman went Killed in State day’s talk, which lasted nearly killed Its pilot. tract that followed a nationwide tween thr trucking Industry and right along with the idea. 90 minutes, gave the two men a Must Cost U.S. Lives Webb’s statement said, “ all of trucking shutdown two weeks the Teamsters Union would re chance to lay down the topics Pupils in local schools us who have faced the difficul sume if the national contract Auto Accidents NEW YORK (AP) — Gen. The AP members met at the ago. they will discuss Wednesday. were in class to make up for ties of understanding and put were rejected. William C. Westmoreland Waldorf-Astoria in the same An Associated Press survey NEW HAVEN (AP) — Neither Johnson nor the Ger one of the several sessions ting to use the forces of nature A Teamsters source said warned today that antiwar pro city where opponents of U.S.

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