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Looking For Boost To White House
. Demo Presidential Hopefuls
Showing Up At LBJ’s Door
WASHINGTON (UPD—Pres
ident Johnson found himself in
• the unaccustomed role of elder
party statesman today, and
Democratic presidential hope
fuls were queuing up at his door
, for a boost along the road to the
White House.
Vice President Hubert H.
Humphrey was first in line for
• a discussion with Johnson later
today on the possibility of be
coming the administration can
didate now that the President
• is out of contention.
New York Sen. Robert F.
Kennedy secured an audience
with Johnson to discuss prob
' lems of "national unity,” but no
time or date was announced.
The President stepped around
the subject of a successor in his
> public announcement Sunday
that he would not seek another
term, but he told reporters
afterward that he might have
» something to say later on.
Speaking of the Democratic
National Convention in August,
Johnson said: “I am not going
» to spend much of the time on
partisan politics between now
and then. When the time comes
to take an active part, I will
, make my announcement. I don’t
want to get into that now.”
About 250 cheering supporters
greeted Humphrey at the
• airport on his return Monday
night from a diplomatic mis
sion, chanting "We want
Humphrey” and "Go, go,
i Hubert Horatio.”
Humphrey said he was sorry
about Johnson’s decision not to
» seek re-election.
"As to my future plans, I
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Thieu Feels US
Troop Withdrawal
Can Start In Year
By DANIEL SOUTHERLAND
SAIGON (UPI) — President
Nguyen Van Hiieu said today
the United States would be
“deserting the free world” if it
pulled out of Vietnam. But he
said South Vietnam should be
strong enough by year’s end to
allow a gradual withdrawal of
American troops.
Thieu said his government
approved President Johnson's
order limiting bombing of North
Vietnam and de • escalating
ground operations.
If Hanoi fails to respond to
these moves for peace In “a
matter of weeks,” he vowed his
armies would push the war with
fury—alone, if necessary. He
said if America is unable to
provide the troops needed to
halt the Communist threat, he
would seek them from other
allies.
Thieu, 44, spoke to newsmen
at Independence Palace. He told
the news conference he had
received an invitation to visit
Sen. Russell
Doubts Decision
Will Get Results
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen.
Richard Russell, D - Ga., ex
pressed doubt today that the
President’s announcement that
he will not seek a second term
would bring any change in re
lations with North Vietnam.
Despite Johnson's proposal to
spend his remaining time in of
fice in pursuit of a solution to
the war in Vietnam, the chair
man of the Senate Armed Ser
vices Committee said he had
"very great doubts that Hanoi
will change its policy.”
"Any man would hesitate at
serving another ‘lame duck
term,” Russell, a long - time
friend of the President’s, com
mented fol low 1n g Johnson’s
avowed withdrawal from the
1968 race. He explained that
any second term president suf
fers from "constantly declining
Influence and power” when he
is barred from succeeding him
self.
Two Georgians
Killed In
Fiery Crash
TOCCOA, Ga. (UPI) — Two
persons were dead after a fiery
collision near here Monday
night after being pinned inside
wreckage of two cars that col
tided headon.
John Bolmon, 30, of Toccoa
and 14-year-old Marvin Mooney
of Jarrett Manor were identi
fied as the victims. Also in
jured in the crash on U.S. 123
were the teenager’s father and
brother.
lability,” he said. "I shall be
I meeting with the President to-
the White House. He said he
was considering it.
Vietnamese officials said
Thieu is expected to accept the
invitation and leave for Wash
ington within the next two
weeks.
In Washington, UPI State
Department correspondent
Stewart Hensley said Johnson
faced the task of convincing
Thieu’s government that the
military slowdown does not
mean the United States is
preparing to abandon South
Vietnam to the Communists, on
Hopes Os Hanoi
Talking Are Dim
MOSCOW (UPI) —The offi
cial North Vietnamese newspa
per Nhan Dan said today
President Johnson has not
agreed to stop the bombing and
other military actions “finally
and unconditionally,” the Tass
news agency reported from
Hanoi.
The statement in an editorial
in the Hanoi newspaper did not
reject Johnson’s peace over
tures outright but this first
comment from North Vietnam
inlicated chances were slim for
Hanoi’s acceptance.
The official Communist daily
said Johnson “is still looking for
ways and means of misleading
public opinion and does not
agree to stop the bombing.”
The American bombing pause
spares the heavily populated
northern areas of North Viet-
Weltner
Endorses
Kennedy
ATLANTA (UPD—Charles L.
Weltner, former congressman
seeking to regain his sth Dis
trict seat, has become the first
ranking Georgia Democrat to
endorse Sen. Robert F. Kenne
dy for the presidential nomina
tion.
“I’m supporting Senator Ken
nedy for president,” Weltner
said, “because I think Kennedy
offers the possibility for bring
ing to the country a new spirit
and a new determination, and
I think one of the underlying
problems of the country today
is a diminishing sense of com
munity and growing sense of
futility.
“I believe a person with Ken
nedy’s imagination and his en
ergy can come as close as any
one can to restoring the sense
of community over the entire
nation and the confidence in the
people themselves.”
Savannah Beach
Mayor Loses
SAVANNAH BEACH, Ga.
(UPl)—Unofficial returns gave
Chatham County labor leader
Mike Counihan an upset over
Savannah Beach Mayor James
A. Brown.
Brown, mayor since 1956,
gained statewide prominence
four years ago when he carried
his unsuccessful campaign to
legalize pari-mutuel dog racing
in Georgia to the state legisla
ture. Unofficial returns showed
Counihan received 448 votes to
Brown’s 383 Monday night.
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I me to say more.”
the battlefield or at the
conference table. Unless doubt
in America is removed, the
Saigon government might go to
pieces, Hensley said.
In his news conference, Thieu
said, "Os course, we will never
tell the Americans to go home.
We do not want the Americans
to withdraw their troops from
Vietnam.
"But if the U.S. government
wants it, we can begin to
relieve some of the American
troops with our new effort at
mobilization of our people.”
nam—including Hanoi and Hai
phong. But it permits U.S.
planes to bomb the panhandle
region above the Demilitarized
Zone (DMZ), the principal
supply route for the 70,000 or
more North Vietnamese troops
believed in the DMZ area.
Macon Man
Not Wanted
In Newark
MACON, Ga. (UPD—Stone
wall Sapp, 74, who spent the
weekend in the Macon city jail,
had only the “welfare people”
to fear today.
Sapp “turned himself in” to
police Saturday, telling them he
was “tired of running” from
Newark, N. J. authorities who
allegedly sought him for the
murder of a woman he said he
knifed to death in 1955.
However, the response from
Newark authorities Monday re
vealed that there was no war
rant for anyone for a murder
in that year. In fact, the city
has only one unsolved murder,
and that was in 1962.
The apparently feeble man
then told police that he had
been afraid that “welfare peo
ple” were going to try to put
him away in a rest home. Po
lice figured he settled for the
cell as the lesser of two evils.
Five Prisoners
Flee Jones Camp
HAWKINSVILLE, Ga. (UPD
— Five Jones County Prison
Branch escapers were being
sought today in the second of
two recent prison breaks.
Authorities said the five, one
of them armed, forced a guard
and inmates reloading a prison
bus on U.S. 129 near Grey into
the bus, locked the door and
then fled on foot.
Officers in south Georgia and
north Florida continued their
look-out for five of 15 original
escapers from a Lowndes Coun
ty Prison Branch last Saturday.
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LEGISLATURE AGREES ON CANCER I Lt. Governor George T. Smith and
House Speaker George L. Smith present C. H. Poindexter, (right) 1968 State
EDUCATION-Funds Crusade Chairman for the American Cancer Society, with a
copy of a special joint Resolution by the Georgia Legislature declaring April CAN
CER CONTROL MONTH and recognizing the EDUCATION-Funds Crusade as a
major life-saving factor in cancer control. Rep. Devereaux McClatchey from Ful
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Georgians are called upon to “become aware of cancer’s dangers and to cooperate
and support the work of the Society to help prevent needless deaths and speed the
final conquest of cancer through research.” 11,000 new cases of cancer are expect
ed in Georgia during 1968, and half can be cured if they all followed the Society’s
advice to have regular checkups to allow the earliest possible detection and prompt
treatment.
Tension Build - Up
Feared In Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) —
Authorities feared tension would
"build up again” today with the
return of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr., and the funeral of a
Negro youth killed in last
week's sympathy marches for
1,200 striking garbage collec
tors, mostly Negroes, out of
work since early February in a
Columbus Youth
Hurt In Fall
COLUMBUS, Ga. (UPl)—The
son of the executive director of
the Columbus Chamber of Com
merce was in critical condition
in a Chattanooga, Tenn., hospi
tal after a fall in a canyon.
Authorities said Steven Crow
der, 16, son of Charles Crowder,
fell into a ravine in Cloudland
Canyon State Park in north
Georgia, suffering neck and
back fractures, as well as a
brain concussion.
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dispute with the city over pay
raises and union representation.
A mass march will take
place, “probably Friday,” a
King aide said.
A march of 5,000 persons, led
by King, erupted into violence
last Thursday when Negro
youths began breaking windows
and attacking battling police.
One person was killed, 62
injured and 300 persons arrest
ed before the melee was quelled
by police, state troopers and
National Guardsmen dispatched
to the city by Gov. Buford
Ellington.
Funeral services for the dead
youth, Larry Payne, 16, were
scheduled 2 p.m. EST today.
Payne was killed by a
policeman allegedly as he
carried a television set from a
looted store. Relatives contend
ed, however, the youth had
surrendered and had his hands
up when he was slain by the
shotgun blast of patrolman L.D.
Jones.
Payne’s body lay in state for
two hours Monday afternoon.
The wake and a simultaneous
march down Main Street, which
had law enforcement officials
apprehensive, were completed
without Incident Monday.
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Air Force
Holding Meet
In Atlanta
ATLANTA (UPI) —The Air
Force Association, opening its
22nd annual convention and Air
Force reunion here today,
named two top air officers of
the Vietnam war to receive the
flying service’s highest honors.
Gen. William W. Momyer,
commander of the 7th Air
Force in charge of the air war
in Vietnam, will be awarded
the H. H. Arnold Trophy for
outstanding contribution in pur
suing the war in Southeast Asia.
Col. Robin Olds, the most fa
mous fighter pilot to come out
of the conflict thus far, re
ceived the David C. Schilling
Trophy for his contribution in
the field of flight.
Gen. Momyer will be honored
at a luncheon for Secretary of
the Air Force Harold Brown at
the close of the convention Fri
day. Col. Olds’ award will be
presented Thursday.
College Park
Soldier
Killed In Viet
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Two
more Georgians, both Army
men, are among the recent vic
tims of the war in Vietnam, ac
cording to the Pentagon.
Killed in action were Cpl.
Marvin L. Mayo, son of Mrs.
Zelma McDonald, College Park,
and Cpl. Roger W. Overstreet,
son of Mrs. Fannie H. Over
street, Columbus.