Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 11-25-1969 Winona Daily News Winona Daily News Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews Recommended Citation Winona Daily News, "Winona Daily News" (1969). Winona Daily News. 972. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/972 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Cloudy and 500 vete rans colder with wanted chanc e of snow classified section Army won't say whether Calley pulled trigger or gave orders By BOB HORTON shot a group of villagers. The Oriental human beings ... by discussion of the evidence in the at Ft. Benning, Ga., around the ' ' WASHINGTON (AP) — Army former Army private's name means of shooting them with a case."- - . ' - first of the year, may be un- spokesmen say regulations pre- was given as Paul Meadlo, 22 rifle." The six specifications , Regulations prohibit this, the precedented for the Army as far vent them from clarifying of Terre Haute, Ind. listed a total of 109 victims in- Army said. whether 1st Lt. William L. Cal- And as the furor over the al- cluding a two-year-old child. Nevertheless, the Army said as numbers of alleged civilian ley Jr. is accused of pulling the leged massacre grew, members Pressed by newsmen, the that under the Uniform Code of murders are concerned. trigger or issuing the orders in of Congress began moving to- Army finally issued a legalistic Military Justice, Calley would The South Vietnamese de- the alleged murder of 109 Viet- ward their own investigatioa of statement saying: be liable for conviction on fense Ministry issued a state- namese civilians. the incident. "Whether Lt. Calley is alleged charges of premeditated mur- ment last Saturday saying there But while the Pentagon was The Army said Monday Calley to be the actual perpetrator of der "under any of the three had been no massacre in the being vague on the specifics of would be court martialed on each of the murders charged in theories mentioned , above. " raid. - its case, a man identified as a charges of premeditated mur- the specification, or whether he If convicted, the Waynesville, ¦In' the CBS television inter- former soldier said in a televi- der in the 1968 raid on the vil- is charged as an aider and abet- N.C, man would : be sentenced view, Meadlo said he was a sion interview Monday night lage of My Lai. tor, or as one who counseled, either to death or life imprison- member of Galley's company, at that lie killed ,10 to 15 of the The specifications were ex- commanded or procured the the time of the My Lai opera- JUBILATION IN ment since the case is being ISOLATION ... Happy rad, Richard Gordon, and Alan Bean. They Vietnamese under Galley's or- plicit in saying that Calley did commission of the offenses capital offense, the tion. The man said both he and to be back treated as a , Apollo 12 astronauts exhibited will live in the trailer until it is transported ders and that the officer also "with premeditation murder , -. V. would require a rather detailed Pentagon said. Calley participated in the kill- wide grins Monday as they peered from win- to Houston's Manned Spaceflight Center Sat- • The court martial , to be held ings. dow o£ thdr quarantine trailer aboard the urday. Bean's bandage over eye covers cut USS Hornet. They are, from left, Charles Con- he.received during landing. (AP Photofax) 'SAIL TOWARD /y4WA// Percy> roung Astronauts said request^ probe WASHINGTON (AP) — Two soldier formally charged in con- senators have called _ for a nection with the reported mass congressional investigation into slayings at My Lai village. An- healthy/ relaxed of South other Army man has been ac- alleged massacre the to ABOARD USS HORNET (AP) clared sound after initial physi- chamber at MSC's Lunar Re- Vietnamese civilians by U.S. cused of assault with intent soldiers, and Majority Leader murder Vietnamese villagers, — Healthy and relaxed in their cal examinations. ceiving Laboratory, the first 24 They arrive at Pearl Harbor box to be opened Wednesday Mike Mansfield says there must and the Army is investigating quarantine trailer, America's government inquiry be- other men. about 4:30 p.m. CST Friday, morning and the second later be a L. untouchable astronauts sailed the same day. cause "there's been so much In the House, Chairman then fly nonstop to the Manned of the Armed toward Hawaii today while ea- Spacecraft Center—-MSC—at Promoted by President Nixon smoke." Mendell Rivers But Mansfield said any Senate Services Committee said Mon- ger scientists prepred to open Houston, Tey. from Navy commanders to cap- for tains after their s-eye investigation should , wait until day he has asked the Army their moon-rock treasure cfcuests. They will be slightly behind bull' incident to see if their two boxes of moon rocks, splashdown Monday, Conrad, after the court martial ordered its files on the Charles Conrad Jr.,, Richard by the Army in the case of 1st his panel should investigate. brought back from the Ocean of Gordon and Bean had a rela- as a kind of F. Gordon Jr. and Alan L. Bean tively easy schedule today. Lt. William L. Calley Jr., ac- "We'll be sitting showed no ill effects from their Storms. The treasure chests ar- quasi-grand jury," said the rive today at Ellington Air Medical checkups—including cused of premeditated murder 10-day lunar expedition—except of 109 South Vietnamese -villag- South Carolina Democrat. Force Base near MSC. blood tests—and telling high- Young for a knot on Bean's head. lights of their mission into tape ers. In a Senate speech. He hit it during splashdown Officials said a C141 Starlifter said he already has asked fox carrying the first box arrives at recorders were the only events R-Ill., and appealed at the back win- planned. Sen. Charles H. Percy, "an immediate investigation of dow of the quarantine quarters Ellington about 2:45 p.m., with urged investigations by both the this sordid affair . the second due about 10:05 p.m. The three are untouchables to while wearing a bandage. the outside world until their Pentagon and the Senate, He said the case is evidence The schedule calls for both Sen. Stephen Young, D-Ohio, of "the brutalization of a gener- Otherwise the three were de- boxes to be put in i vacuum quarantine period ends at 3:44 a.m. Dec. .11. Taking precau- said he has asked for an ation of Americans by our in- tions against the remote possi- immediate investigation by the volvement in any immoral, un- Senate Armed Services Commit- declared war," and likened It to bility that they brought back lu- the pan- nar organisms which could tee. It seemed unlikely the conduct of Nazi storm troop- harm life on earth el would take up the alleged ers. ' , the space while a court had The bubbly heroes are isolated in the trail- mass killings Percy said Ihe Pentagon ¦ "by er. ;"- . - ¦ . "' . martial inquiry is in progress. sacrificed public confidence The only people with them are "You .can't have more than incredibly hiding the facts' " of a p one operation at a time," Mans- the a Ueged massacre at the hysician- Dr. Clarence Jerni- ago. ga, and a technician, Brock R. field said. "I think the Army time it occurred 20 months flows again "Randy'.' Stone, who keeps sys- ou ght to have the opportunity to The Army announced: Monday 1 conduct its own inquiry . ' that Lt. Gen. William R. Peers SPACE CENTER, Hous- ' tems operating. DESCRIBES VIETNAM MASSACRE . described his own actions and those of others Beaa.I^V Mansfield said after that proc- has been assigned to determina ton (fl . — Splash went the For Jane Conrad , it was After arriving at Hawaii, the Paul Meadlo, an ex-serviceman, is shown during the alleged massacre in th. Vietna- whether the brigade involved in capsule. Bang went the fire- astronauts—trailer and—all will ess is complete, the Senate pan- "wonderful . fabulous Monday evening as he appeared on CBS-TV mese village of My Lai last year. Photo from el should decide whether further the March 1968 , incident had works,. Pop went the cham- . great." be transferred to a cargo air- tried to cover it up in an earlier, . craft and flown directly to Ell- on the Walter Cronkite program. Interviewed CBS News, as monitored on television in New investigation is needed. pagne. "Real neat," suggested by CBS newsman Mike Wallace, Meadlo York. (AP Photofax) lower level investigation. Apollo 12 was down and Chris Conrad, who will be ington, where they are due at Calley was the first American astronauts Charles Conrad lfl Wednesday. 6:40 a.m. Saturday. At the lunar Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr., The two Bean children, laboratory, the astronauts, doc- and Alan L. Bean were safe. Clay, 13, and Amy, 6, touch- tor and technician will move to At the Bean home, the ed off fireworks while their more spacious quarantine quar- North Vietnam splashdown was greeted mother joined house guests ters. Germ warfare Army veteran tells of with firecrackers and cham- in a swinging rendition of Making Apollo 12's second pagne. "The Eyes of Texas." bull's-eye landing in a week, the At the Conrad's cheers Both Sue and Alan Bean three astronauts safely para- renews attack and champagne.