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Is Ransomed Missing Loot 1 MIAMI, Fla. (AP) Some of the rare coins taken in the $2 million robbery at the mansion of Willis du Pont have been somed for $50,000, State Atty. Richard Gerstein said Tuesday. Gerstein also said the missing believed police to be linked to the slayings of Dolores Castillo and Reynold Perez, whose handcuffed, bullet-punctured bodies were 1 found Jan. 25.

"It appears there may be a connection between this robbery and the murder of Dolores Cas. tillo, but I cannot make any fur. ther comment at this Gerstein said. Details of the ransom negotiations were disclosed after two additional attempts to recover the remaining coins ended in failure. The successful recovery of 13 rare American gold pieces was made on Jan.

6 in Philadelphia by a Miami private investigator, Edward L. Stanton, working for du Pont, Gerstein said. Senate Nails AntiBill Into Civil Rights WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate nailed an antiriot provision into its civil rights bill Tuesday and then refused to ex. empt individual home owners from a ban on discrimination i in the sale or rental of housing. Over administration protests, the Senate adopted 82 to 13 an amendment providing for a five-year prison term and a $10,000 fine for crossing state lines with intent to start a riot.

Then by the narrow margin of 48 to 43 it rejected an amendment by Sen. Howard H. Baker which would have removed about $29 million owner-occupied single-family dwellings, or about 44 per cent of the discrimination market, clause. from 3 the antiAs now written, the bill provides that effective Jan. 1, 1970, owner -occupants of single-family homes may not discriminate if they sell through a real estate agent or broker.

If they handled the sale themselves they would be free to discriminate. Baker proposed that they be permitted to discriminate, even when employing ap agent, SO long as they did not. indicate any racial preference or intent to discriminate to the broker. right to discriminate," Baker said, "should not depend on whether the owner employs a broker." Sen. Charles H.

Percy, urging rejection of Baker's proposal, said, "We can't afford prejudice and discrimination any more in this country." The antiriot amendment was pressed to adoption by Sens. Frank J. Lausche, Ohio, and Strom Thurmond, It follows the general lines of a bill the house passed 347 to 70 dur. ing last summer's street violence. "I do believe," Thurmond said, "that firm action to punish those who go into cities and incite riots will definitely alleviate this pressing Also adopted, 48 to 42, was an amendment by Sen.

Herman E. Talmadge, "making it a federal crime to injure, intimidate or interfere with a businessman during a riot. Talmadge said small businessmen suffered heavily in last summer's disorders. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey at first ruled the Lausche-Thurmond amendment out of order as not germane to the civil rights open housing bill.

This brought Lausche to his feet with the comment that the bill's purpose is help bring about domestic tranquility and prevent riots, "but now we hear that riots have nothing to do with it." Sen. Philip A. Hart, THE TIMES AND DEMOCRAT, Orangeburg, S.C., Wednesday, March 6, 1968, Page Nine Combined Allied Forces Kill 195 Hummel Promises Apology SUSANVILLE, Calif. (AP) H.L. Hummel, 87, who mailed two packets of antiwar propaganda to a Vietnam widow, said Tuesday, "It is not my intent to cause any further grief to any.

one who has lost a loved one in the war." "It is my intent," he said, "to expose the unjust slaughter of innocent people and enlist their support and influence to stop the conflict and perhaps save the life of other parents' sons." Carol Schwellenbach, 26, of Fayetteville, N.C., received anItiwar material twice after he husband, Army Pfc. Gary Schwellenbach, was killed in Vietnam last Dec. 2. The first mailing went to her in-laws' home in Chico, Calif. Mrs.

Schwellenbach, a WAC private, threw it away. She received the same material again later at her Fayetteville home and reported it to the Army. The Associated Press obtained copies of the material from the widow. In both instances, the material was sent in an envelope bearing the return address: P.O. Box 497, Susanville, Callf.

The box is held in the name of H.L. Hummel. When the incidents were revealed, the Army's Criminal Investigations Division, the Post Office Department and the FBI launched an investigation. "'This whole turmoil stems from my error in mailing a second leaflet to Mrs. Schwellenbach," Hummel said.

"I mailed one to her address in Chico and failed to make a record of it. Then when I saw her address in Fayetteville, N.C., I mailed another not remembering I mailed the Chico one which she said she threw away. "I owe her an apology and will make same to her." Hummell denied that a passage in the antiwar material which said that those who kill for no reason are worse than cannibals, was meant to apply to American servicemen, Castro's Supporters Suspects In Hijacking BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) A Colombian airliner was forced at gunpoint Tuesday to fly to Cuba with its 26 passengers, including a close friend and aide to President Carlos Lleras Restrepo and two Colombian con- Late Death Maxey L. O'Cain or beliefs, Clark said, does not come within the bill's definition of incitipg to riot. Under the amendment by the Senate, a riot is defined as a public disturbance involving violence by one or more persons as part of an assemblage of three or more persons that endanger property persons.

The administration bill, which may be considered later by a Senate conference, defines a riot as a public disturbance involving an assemblage of or more persons which, by tumultuous and violent conduct, creates grave danger of damage or injury to property or persons. Khe Sanh Showdown Pegged As Communist "Waterloo" PHU BAI, Vietnam (AP) A showdown battle for Khe Sanh and other menaced allied positions south of the demilitarized zone will end in a Communist defeat, a senior U.S. military source predicted Tuesday. He pictured allied forces as about to go on the offensive and said the massing of four North Vietnamese divisions, men including Viet Cong elements, presents the U.S. Command with "silver platter" opportunities for conv.

entional-style battle in the northern two provinces. A cornerstone of U.S. strategy is that American firepower will be decisive if the allies can get the Communists to mass for conventional attack. As for Khe Sanh, seemingly the most seriously imperiled position in Vietnam, the source said: "They cannot overrun it before we could do something about it (relieving the base). We would have sufficient time, in my professional opinion." The sources, who is deeply involved in all planning to meet the expected Communist offensive, gave this appraisal: Because of the impending break in monsoon weather in the northern provinces, the North Vietnamese have only one month left to begin their offensive.

Otherwise, they must risk being caught in the open while air skies permit massive U.S. air strikes. The allies and particularly the United States are about to resume the offensive in the northern provinces, following redeployment 1 of troops and the smoothing out of supply problems. The Communists have held the offensive since the start of their Tet campaign Jan. 30- 31.

The U.S. Command does not undersetimate the enemy and is not sure exactly how many units winning name in a contest to name the hospital's new. monthly publication. The name, HospiTOPICS" was chosen from over 300 entries by a panel of impartial judges. floor manager for the tration-backed civil rights measure, pleaded with the Senate to wait for President Johnson's version of antiriot legislation.

This arrived during the afternoon, but not before the Senate had adopted the Lausche-Thurmond proposal. The administration measure carries the same five-year, $10,000 fine penalties, but Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark said in a letter to Humphrey that 1 it was carefully drawn so as not to im-20 pede free speech or peaceful assembly. The mere advocacy of ideas Hanoi has committed to the looming battle.

For instance, another North Vietnamese division could be added within one week to the force surrounding 6,000 Marines at Khe Sanh. There is still some question as to How much armor the Communists have committed. Maxey L. O'Cain, 58, of the Belleville Road, died at the Roper Hospital in Charleston Tuesday night after being in declining health for some time. Surviving include the widow, Mrs.

Laura Graddic O'Cain of Orangeburg; two daughters, Mrs. Floyd Sandel of Orangeburg, Mrs. Jewel Stroman of the Four Holes Community; two sons, Maxey Bert O'Cain of Camden, the Rev. Joe 0'Cain of Orangeburg; two sisters, Mrs. A.

L. Weaver and Mrs. John D. McLean, both of Aberdeen, N. four brothers, Sam O'Cain of Jackson, Frank O'Cain of Orangeburg, Dr.

Raymond O'Cain of Orangeburg, M. C. O'Cain of Camden; and 10 grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Thompson Funeral Home. gressmen.

The plane carried a crew of four. There was immediate speculation that the hijacking was the work of supporters of Prime Minister Fidel Castro of Cuba. Twice in the past seven months have forced two other Colombian airliners to fly to Cuba. The only message received from the pilot, Capt. Pedro Viles, was that he was being forced to fly at gunpoint to Cuba by unidentified persons.

A presidential spokesman said aboard the plane was Emilio Urrea, a presidential aide who had been visiting some commu. nity action projects on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. The two congressmen were from dis. tricts close to Venezuela. The president's office said it was advised the plane landed at Santiago in eastern Cuba in the afternoon and the passengers had been well treated.

It sent a demand through the Swiss Em. bassy in Havana for the immediate return of the plane and passengers. The office reported the infor. mation was radioed from Santiago. But the report threw no more light on the number or identity of the hijackers.

'DOUBLE LOTTERY' FOR SENATE SEATS Some Some Collude With the exception of Anderson, Aiken, York and 1 Florence counties, which could each have two resident senators, the participating counties are limited to no more than one resident senator. Lottery List On Page Two In those one-senator counties, the candidate making the first choice of the numbered seat he will seek "locks in" that seat. All other candidates from his county are forced to run for that seat. The object of the game, often involving collusion between candidates from different counties within a district, was to choose a seat where the opposition to election would be lightest. The alignments arrived at in the lottery will not remain that ORANGEBURG INCIDENTS Riots-Narcotics Link Possible, Governor Asserts COLUMBIA (AP)- Gov.

ert McNair said Tuesday narcotics may have been a factor in recent Orangeburg racial clashes in which three Negro students were slain. "There is evidence," he told a news conference, "that an creased amount of drugs went into the Orangeburg area prior to the trouble there" in early February. "'We know drugs can be a contributing factor to explosions such as this." The fatal clash with officers came on the fourth night of civil rights demonstrations by Claflin and South Carolina State College students and other young Negroes against a segregated bowling alley, since integrated by federal court order. McNair told the newsmen National Guardsmen have been withdrawn from the city where a nightly curfew was enforced for almost three weeks after the shooting. He said a state ofemergency order has been lifted.

The governor said highway patrolmen were used in controlling the demonstrators, rather than National Guardsmen who were on hand, because the Guardsmen had only rifles. He said he hopes to get riot control shotguns for them. The concentration of more than 50 patrolmen at Orangeburg for more than three weeks, he said, may have contributed to a sudden rise in traffic deaths in the state that began four weeks ago. He said patrol cars may be equipped with electronic devices to read the speed of approaching cars. And he said he hopes the legislature will pass legislation to revoke the license of a driver who refuses to take a test for alcohol consumption.

McNair said racial relations at a Or a ge burg still aren't "what we would like. negotiations between white and Negro leaders is continuing. He also said a preliminary report, separate from a federal one, on the Orangeburg situation is under preparation and will be "comprehensive and rather revealing and contain some things I didn't even know." The governor said development of manpower training programs for industry may help head off future racial eruptions. GOP Maps Course To Fight 'Southern Strategy' Plank WASHINGTON (AP) Twenfrom four Republican 638 senators states delegate votes have charted course toward rejection of any "Southern strategy" civil rights plank by the GOP National Convention. Led GOP Leader Everett M.

Dirksen, the 24 supplied the margin Monday by which the Senate clamped debate-limiting cloture on a pending civil rights bill by a 65-32 count -the bare majority needed. This vote appeared to guarantee eventual passage of a bill carrying an open-housing provision giving Negroes more encouragement to move into the vote-packed white suburbs. Republican candidates count heave ily on suburban support to offset the Democratic big-city strongholds. If the 24 senators from as many states are reading the sentiment at home correctlyand there were divisions of opinion in three of the states- delegations representing nearly half of the 1,333 Miami Beach, convention votes are in no mood for a civil rights compromise with the deep South. This does not take into account delegations from states which have no GOP senators but which are likely to support a strong civil rights declaration.

These include Connecticut, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Washington and Wisconsin, which will have a total of 204 convention votes. It takes 667 votes to win the GOP nomination. Such a bloc could mean the Republicans will make a 180-degree turn from 1964. Then Barry Goldwater votes as a senator against passage of a civil rights bill and engineered the futile strategy of trying to combine Southern strength with white backlash support in the North. The third-party threat of for.

mer Gov. George C. Wallace of district's other two Senate seats. Incumbent Republican Sen. Floyd Spence of Lexington and Democratic former Sen.

F. Beasley Smith of Lexington both filed for seat No. 3. Sen. Marion Smoak, R-Aiken, is thus far the only contender for seat No.

2. The maneuvering in the Florence-Marion Williamsburg District Illustrates the jockeying for position involved in the lottery. Three senators are allotted to the district, and Florence is allowed two of them. Seeking reelection are Sens. Nick Zeigler and Clyde Graham, both of Florence, Sen.

Ralph Gasque, D- Marion, and Sen. Lanue Floyd, D- Williamsburg. Zeigler had first choice of designating his seat but he passed up the opportunity, as did Graham. J. W.

Parnell of Marion then chose to run for seat No. 1. Viet Cong Battalion Is Routed SUGGESTS WINNING NAME H.F. (Fil) Mabry, right, administrator at the Orangeburg Regional Hospital, presents a check for $50 to Mrs. Bonnie Schrimpf, R.N., for suggesting the Fires Flare In High Wind, Dry Weather Intermittent high winds and extremely dry weather conditions proved a bad combination for fire fighters in the Orangeburg area Tuesday.

City firemen answered seven calls to grass fires withina fourhour period. One crew fought a blaze on Sprinkle Avenue at 1:25 p. m. and apparently had the fire der control when sporadic winds whipped the area and ignited the parched grass in adjoining sectons. A second truck and crew was called Probably the worst of the fires, according to Lieutenant Bob Sharpton of the Orangeburg Fire Department, raged in an area behind Brooks Open Market on Highway 601.

This call came in at 3:22. Seven or eight homes were threatened by the wind swept flames and a storage building near one of the residences was reportedly damaged. The second unit was dispatched to this area also. SAltW NROY wan A call at 3:28 p.m." from the Norway Road was referred to the Orangeburg County Forester. Fields were reported burning along a 10 mile strip of Highway 400.

Two calls to fires on Glover Street brought firemen on the scene. The first, at 4:49 p.m. in the Edisto River Bridge section was extinguished when another call near the Orangeburg Boys Club was received at 5:26 p.m. Firemen brought this blaze under control in record time. Garbage Strikers Arrested MEMPHIS (AP) Police arrested 121 striking garbage workers and their sympathizers inside the Memphis City Council chamber Tuesday after they ignored orders to leave at the end of a council meeting.

There was no violence and those arrested, including a number of women and Negro minIsters, marched two by two across the street to the police station where they were booked on disorderly conduct charges. Some posted bond and were released, and others chose toremain in jail. The arrests came after about 450 persons, most of them Negro, marched without incident to City Hall to appear before council for a discussion the city's 23- day old sanitation strike. While council was meeting, a hearing was under way on a contempt of court petition city attorneys had filed against leaders of the striking union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Em-. ployes.

The petition charged the leaders with violating an injunction which, in effect, forbids the strike and forbids the leaders from encouraging or urging others to participate in it. All but a few of the city's 300 sanitation workers struck Feb. 12, demanding pay raises, union dues checkoff and city recognition of their union. Source Of Oil Slick Unknown CHARLESTON, S. C.

(AP) Thick, greasy bunker ofl blackened a 200 to 300-yard stretch of Sullivans Island front breach Tuesday, and a second oil spill was spotted in the harbor near Ft. Sumter. The U. Coast Guard is investigating, but by late Tuesday the sources of the pollution were still unknown. Alabama already has all but wiped out for major Republican inroads in the South this year.

By their actions, the Republican senators are cautioning their party colleagues- the GOP's eventual presidential candidate- against contesting with Wallace for suburban holdouts against integration. Instead, they're backing National Chairman Ray C. Bliss' blueprint for seeking possible among Negro voters, gains Bliss has said are necessary for a GOP victory. There was evidence Dirksen was responding to a surge within his own ranks against having the party labeled as executioner of the civil rights bill. A FROM CONTINUED PAGE ONE way agreement for the Public Utilities Department with the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad for a crossing at the Camburg Lumber Co.

on S. C. Highway 33 at the request of Alan McC. Johnstone, manager of the department. Other business included recelving the February reports from the Fire and Police Departments and the building and plumbing reports for the same month.

FROM CONTINUED PAGE ONE ists in the Merit Scholarship program, One is a scholarship finalist at Mary Baldwin College in Virginia. Dr. Wanamaker told a Times and Democrat reporter that he had never met the donor until about two weeks ago. "He came to Orangeburg around last Thanksgiving Day," Dr. Wannamaker said, "and must have investigated us up and down.

He went to the academy and asked numerous questions and also asked questions around town. "His questions were of a type that led the faculty and personnel at the academy to believe that he was interested in establishing another private school. In fact, they thought so little about it that they didn't even tell me about it. "The next we heard from him was shortly before Christmas when Mr. McAlister sent the academy a contribution to finance and support an experimental curriculum and provide scholarships." In a letter accompanying the securities, the donor said that he was making the gift because of the dedication, perseverance and self-sacrifices of the individuals involved in the establishment of the school, Dr.

Wannamaker said, adding that McAlister also felt that the academy had provided the leadership in the private school movement for others to follow. Both of his parents were educated in private schools, Dr. Wannamaker said. SAIGON (AP) The Communists varied widespread shelling Tuesday with a costly infantry attack on Ca Mau, a provincial capital of 40,000 near the southern tip of Vietnam. Military spokesmen said government troops, fighter-bombers, helicopter gunships and artillery killed 195 Viet Cong in routing a 300-man battalion that drove into Ca Mau behind a bar.

rage of mortar and recoilless rifle shells in early morning darkeness and temporarily occupied the provincial hospital. Five of the enemy were captured in the 15-hour fight at Ca Mau, also known as Quang Long, 153 miles southwest of Saigon. The troops seized a Communist sampan loaded with explosive charges. Losses among about 800 government troops involved were described as light. There was no report on casualties among civilians, hard hit in previous phases of the Communists' win-spring offensive against metropolitan centers.

Striking with long-range weapons rather than ground forces, the Communists shelled a dozen provincial capitals, seven American and South Vietnamese air. fields, 14 military bases and six district towns. Brought under enemy mortar fire for the first time was the giant $500-million U.S. sea and air supply base at Cam Ranh Bay, 200 miles northeast of Salgon, which was visited just last Christmas by President Johnson land entertainer Bob Hope. The flurry of 15 shells on Cam Ranh did no serious damage, but succeeded in violating one of the last so-called invulnerable U.S.

installations in South Vietnam. Probably fired from points two miles or so away, a few rounds hit the base proper. Most fell to the northeast. A runway was pitted and an oil storage area was hit, resulting in some loss of fuel. Air operations were maintained and there were no casualties.

Perhaps the last untouched military center in South Vietnam is the seaside town of Vung Tau, 40 miles southeast of Sai. gon. This is a Vietnamese military headquarters and rest and rehabilitation area for American troops. Mekong Delta guerrillas lobbed 75mm recoilless rifle shells into the nerve center city of Can Tho, 80 miles southwest of the capital, killing 13 civilians. By and large, the U.S.

Command characterized seemingly coordinated attacks on nine locations in a 70-mile arc sur. rounding Saigon as minor. "Several locations in the 3rd Corps were harassed with minor attacks by mortar fire early this morning between midnight and 2 a.m.," it said. "There has been no significant damage reported as a result of any of the attacks. Reported U.S.

casualties are one killed and five wounded. Less than 20 rounds were received at each of the locations." The attacks followed up Monday's shelling seven air bases, two U.S. command posts and four other installations, none of the scope which marked the opening of the Viet Cong's lunar new year drive Jan. 30. Communiques reported allied forces killed more than 500 of the enemy Monday and Tues.

day, many of them in fighting unrelated to the enemy shellings. American forces bombed and enemy a soldiers that an air obshelled a column of about 600 server spotted Monday moving toward the besieged U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh, in the northwest corner of the country. The observer said at least 18 were killed. North Vietnamese gunners fired about 150 rounds into the base.

U.S. Marine headquarters at Da Nang said American casualties were light. U.S. B52 Stratofortresses continued blasting suspected enemy positions as close as 1,000 yards from the base's barbed wire perimeter. They staged five saturation raids north and west of the compound, menaced by an enemy force estimated at 20,000 men.

U.S. Air Force operations over North Vietnam Monday included the first strike of the war at a boat yard six miles southwest of Hanoi. Other planes raided a surface to air missile site 10 miles from the capital, The heaviest ground action Monday was at Tuy Hoa, a provincial capital 230 miles northeast of Saigon. U.S, and South Vietnamese forces said they killed 206 Communist sol. diers in a day-long battle.

COLUMBIA (AP)- South olina senators gambled for bered Senate seats Tuesday and managed to avoid opposing each other in all but three races. Twenty-one of the 32 participants in a state-supervised "double lottery" were incumcumbent solons seeking reelection from multi -county districts which have been reapportioned to equalize representation on poqulation basis. Secretary of State Frank Thornton conducted the lottery in his office. Those participating were gambling on the order in which they would get to designate the numbered Senate seat they will seek from within their district. Thornton first drew lots to determine the order of counties within a district.

Then the candidates from individual counties were dealt out numbered balls, with low man getting to make first choice. way. Subsequent candidates can file by paying the $500 fee anytime before the March 18 deadline. But their choice of seats has been set. The Democratic candidates will run for their party's nomination in the June primary.

Republican candidates will be nominated at the GOP State Convention March 30. Forty-six tors representing 20 senatorial districts will be elected in the November general election. One of the hottest races 1s likely to be in the Laurens-New-' berry-Union District where Sen. John Long of Union, Sen. William Dobbins of Laurens and former Sen.

King Dixon of Laurens, all Democrats, are all running for seat No. 1. Seat No. 2 of that district is being sought by Republican Sen. Gene Griffith and Democrat Robert C.

Lake, both of Newberry. Running against each other for seat No. 2 from the Beaufort-Colleton Hampton -Jasper District are incumbent Democratic Sens. Henry Walker of Jasper and James P. Waddell of Beaufort.

The only one to file thus far for seat No. 1 from that district is Sen. James P. Harrelson, D- Colleton. The third race pitting incumbents against each other is for seat No.

3 in the FlorenceMarion Williamsburg District. Democratic Sens, Clyde Graham of Florence and Lanue Floyd of Williamsburg are matched in that one. Republicans J. Fred Wyse of Edgefield and Gilbert McMillan of Aiken are both seeking seat No. 1 from the Lexington-Saluda District.

Unless one withdraws, that is the only senatorial nomination thus far which will be decided at the GOP convention. Republicans also are seeking.