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On Today's Editorial Page The Enigma of the Oil Leak: FINAL Lditonal Unqualified but Favored: Editorial VOL. 91 JVO. 137 1969, St. Louis Post-Dispatch SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1969 20 PAGES 1 Hr Delivery Prlrt XU' a.50 a Month SILO POST- 0 SPATCH -r---' rj Subway Proposal Under Study Hera Claim On Wire Tapping r.r' I A meeting of the Council on Human Relations on the Black Sundays demonstrations in St. Louis evoking animated discussion.

From left are the Rev. Timothy Barry, Luther Mitchell of ACTION, Richard J. Childress, a member of the Archdiocesan Committee on Human Rights, and Percy Green of ACTION. (Post-Dispatch Photograph by Lynn T. Spence) Attempt to Forestall Black Sundays Fails vv.g a i Colombian President Carlos Lleras Restropo strolling through the White House grounds with President Richard M.

Nixon yesterday. (Associated Press Wirephoto) Lleras Talks Called Fruitful Lt. (jg) Ronald C. Ramsey Arriving at Subic Bay bearing today. 2 Suspected In Far East SeaCollision SUBIC BAY, Philippines, June 14 (AP) Two lieutenants who were in charge of the United States destroyer Frank E.

Evans the morning it was cut in two by the Australian carrier Mel- tourne were told today that they wera suspected 0i negligence. 1-1. ijg; Konaia xamsey, 24 years old, Long Beach, and Lt. (jg) James R. Hopson, 28, Kansas City, requested and received legal counsel, although they were advised by the joint U.S.-Australian board investigating the collision that they had not been charged.

Ramsey was in charge and Hopson was steering until a few moments before the collision last week in which 74 American sailors were killed. Ramsey's lawyer, Lt. Frederick F. Tilton of the Navy's judge advocate general's staff, asked for a recess until Wednesday for evaluation of the testimony to date. The board said he could ask for further time Monday.

Hopson then took the stand and gave testimony sharply at odds with that given earlier by the Melbourne's skipper, Capt. John P. Stevenson. Hopson, who was giving steer- TURN TO PAGE 7, COLUMN 1 Cost Might Exceed 2 Billions A rapid transit proposal that would provide for subways in downtown St. Louis, East St.

Louis and Clayton is under study by the Bi-State Development Agency and the East-West Gateway Co-ordinating Council. The cost of the transportation system was estimated at more than a billion dollars and possibly more than 2 billions. The system was suggested as an alternative to a recommenda- SnYLSfng3 same study to ex- transit service. The proposals were called the two most feasible methods of providing increased mass transportation here. The more costly system suggested as an alternative to expansion of present bus service would require private rights of way, some of which would be underground.

Cost Estimates The private right of way could accommodate busses or railed vehicles. The use of busses would involve an expenditure of about 1.3 billion dollars, with right of way costs hiking the investment an additional $20,000,000. No estimates on inflation or the cost of purchasing or leasing Eads Bridge were included in the financial projection. Estimated construction costs would be much greater if rail transportation were used. It was believed that construction alone might involve the expenditure of more than 2 billion dsllars, plus $30,000,000 for right of way.

The feasibility study for Bi-State and the East-West Gateway Council was conducted by the engineering firm of Parsons. Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas. Purpose of the study was to develop a plan for mass transportation to be put into effect by 1975. In such a system, engineering consultants visualized a link between the Illinois and Missouri sections of the metro- TURN TO PAGE 7, COLUMN 5 camp was "as safe as a place can be in the A Shau." The area is a Communist supply bastion two miles from the Laotian border. Military spokesmen said the mountain top camp was hit by mortar shells and then about 60 guerrillas attacked, firing small arms and antitank grenades.

In close-quarters battling, the Communist commandos set off two dynamite charges next to the base's command bunker, but the blasts did no serious damage. Under the light of parachute flares dropped from gunships, From Post-Dispatch Wire Services WASHINGTON, June 14 The Department of Justice asserted yesterday that it had the legal power to eavesdrop without court approval on persons and organizations that it believed were planning to "attack and subvert the Government by unlawful means." In papers filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, the Government disclosed that it had used wire taps to eavesdrop on some or all of the eight antiwar activists who had been indicted for inciting riots at the time of the Democratic national convention in Chicago last summer. In admitting the surveillance, the Justice Department contended for the first time that it had the power under the Constitution to eavesdrop on domestic groups, free of court supervision and without regard for the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. 'No Doubt' "There can be no doubt that there are today in this country organizations which intend to use force and other illegal means to attack and subvert the existing forms of government," the government brief argued.

"Moreover, in recent years there have been an increasing niimher of instances in which federal troops have been called on the states to aid in the suppression of riots. "Faced with such a state of affairs, any President who takes seriously his oath to 'preserve, protect and defend the Constitution' will no doubt determine that it is not 'unreasonable' to utilize electronic surveillance to gather intelligence information concerning those organizations which are committed to the use of illegal methods to bring about changes in our form of government and which may be seeking to foment violent disorders," the document stated. The 32-page document made it clear that the Government was claiming the power to eavesdrop without going through the procedures established by the Crime Control Act enacted by Congress last year or observing safeguards associated with the Fourth Amendment. These procedures require court approval before any eavesdropping i conducted. They limit the time of eavesdropping and impose other restrictions on Government surveillance.

Unregulated Action Yesterday's claim by the Government amounts to an assertion that federal agents legally may continue to carry out the kind of unregulated evesdrop-ping that was used for years by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and Elijah Muhammad, the Black Muslim leader. Court hearings in Houston last week disclosed that the two Negro leaders had been under electronic surveillance for long periods of time. Arguing that the A 1 1 General should not have to obtain court approval before conducting such surveillance, the Government argued: "The question whether it is TURN TO PAGE 7, COLUMN 2 leave the meeting after about 45 minutes of discussion.

Brown told Green, "Let someone know and we'll get you the pulpits. I'm afraid there are some pulpits you can't have this Sunday." Green replied, "We can get the pulpits, even if we go to jail. Christ went to jail. It's up to you Good Samaritans to work on the demands. Violence will come from the ministers or congregation members, not us.

We will do our thing in a most nonviolent manner." Brown said after the meeting that he would call a meeting of "high echelon" church leaders to meet wrth the militants in an attempt to stop the Black Sunday demonstrations. He said that he would seek also to document what has been done by the churches recently and what churches plan to do to aid Negroes. Yesterday, prosecuting attorney, Gene McNary, St. Louis County, outlined steps that could "We're demanding because we're in a political position to demand. If we can't come to some position with you we will deal with the small businesses in the ghetto.

If we can't get ours, we're not going to let you enjoy yours." He said that Negroes eventually would force white businessmen out of the ghetto. "We plan to control the black community; it's as simple as that," he said. The militants complained because Cardinal John J. Car-berry did not attend the meeting. Brown explained that Cardinal Carberry was not invited.

Richard J. Chjldress, a member of the Archdiocesan Committee on Human Rights, said that the Cardinal "would be happy to meet with ACTION." Green said that no meeting would be held until the Cardinal put in writing an offer to meet with the group. "We're not walking into a trap," Green said. moved as fast as we did." Lleras, in a speech at the National Press Club, echoed widespread Latin complaints against United States trade "protectionism" and barriers imposed against Latin products trying to break into the U.S. market.

On Wednesday, the day before Lleras's arrival, another Latin statesman, Gabriel Valdes, foreign minister of Chile, presented to Mr. Nixon a 6000 word The militants then rose to rose to Grocery Clerk Shot To Death, Wallet Gone 1.S. Planes Help Paratroopers On Mountain Beat Off Attack TURN TO PAGE 7, COLUMN 8 had been stabbed also. Lem Hemphill 34, 2721 Elliott Avenue, is in City Hospital with a bullet wound of the abdomen. Police arrested a woman who said she is Callie Hemphill, 40, Hemphill's wife.

Witnesses to the dispute said that Hemphill had stabbed Love. Love later took a revolver from Hemphill and gave it to Callie Hemphill, they said. Love said he heard shots and collapsed in the street. Witnesses said that Hemphill was shot accidentally. The woman, who refused to make a statement, was held suspected of assault with intent to kill.

An attempt by the St. Louis Council on Human Relations to avoid another weekend of Black Sunday demonstrations failed yesterday when Negro militants walked out of a meeting with church representatives. As they left the hastily called meeting a council headquarters, Percy Gresn of ACTION promised that the demonstrations would continue until the group's demands were met. Among the demands are direct payments from churches to Negroes for the support of ghetto programs. Andy J.

Brown human relations commissioner for the city, sent telegrams to 10 church leaders and militants. He said: "We are concerned that we are headed on a confrontation course that St. Louis will regret. I am hoping for a meeting of minds before the confrontation occurs." Ocie Pastard, executive director of the Mid City Community Congress and a member of the Black Liberation Front, told those at the meeting, "We're interested in what's going to happen in the black community Sunday, next week and next month. Apparently you're only interested in a y.

If you have no plans to do anything about our demands, there is no reason for us to be at this meeting." Statement By Green Percy Green, a member of ACTION, said "It's time for you churchmen to get off your behinds and start imitating the life of Christ." Another member of ACTION, Luther Mitchell, said, "The church should be our ombudsman and carry our problems to the Mayor and the racist employers. "Are your rituals more im-p a than the lives of 1 he asked. "Is your wine more important than the life of a Negro? "If someone was killed on Franklin Avenue over a glass of wine, you would think it crazy. But in church it's a different he said. Me mb of ACTION threatened last Sunday to spit in the Communion cup if their demands were ignored.

Pastard told the group, Mild Tomorrow Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Showers ending tonight, little change in temperature; low tonight 65 to 70; tomorrow, decreasing cloudiness and mild; high tomorrow 75 to 80; out- Planning look for Mon-day partly cloudy and cool Temperatures STILL AHEAD OF TRANSIT SAIGON, South Vietnam, June 14 (UPI) American planes today rescueda United States paratrooper base overlooking the A Shau valley from North Vietnamese commandos. Enemy soldiers invaded the base, killed 11 Americans and wounded 40, Saigon headquarters said. Thirty-one Communist bodies were found, 18 of them inside the camp, after Navy divebom-bers, Air Force AC-47 gunships and Army helicopter gunships helped the embattled defenders. The t's commander, Col.

Joseph Conmy, said recently that his "Berchtesgaden" 1 969, New York Times New Service WASHINGTON, June 14 -President i a M. Nixon said yesterday that his two days of talks with President Carlos Lleras Restrepo of Colombia marked a major step in the development of new United States policies in Latin America. The first results should begin emerging, he said, at the coming meeting in Trinidad Tobago of the Economic and Social Council of the Organization of American States. "Without you," Mr. Nixon said in bidding farewell to Lleras, his first Latin American state guest, "we would not have Navy divebombers and Army helicopters smashed the attack with bombing and rocket runs, saving the camp.

The base, headquarters of the Third Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, was established to provide a command and logistics site for invasions of the 27-m i 1 -1 valley. It is 30 miles southwest of Hue. The A Shau valley is a branch of the Communists' Ho Chi Minh supply trail from North Vietnam. From the valley, the guerrillas ship arms toward Da Nang and Hue on the northern coast. B-52 bombers made 10 raids that hit Communist camps outside Saigon, in the central highlands and near Da Nang to the north.

The U.S. command reported the raids in a communique that listed four sharp ground battles yesterday. In the fights, a total of 46 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese were killed against four Americans killed and 34 wounded. Guerrilla gunners shelled nine towns and military camps overnight, the lowest number since their shelling drive began June 5. Saigon spokesmen said that 16 civilians were killed and 62 wounded in a 13-round mortar attack into An Nhon, 265 miles northeast of Saigon.

Twenty-fifth Infantry Division troops patrolling 28 miles northwest of Saigon reported killing 23 North Vietnamese without suffering a casualty. About 50 miles northwest of Saigon, other American troops, with artillery and helicopter i support, killed eight guerrillas, with nine U.S. soldiers wounded. United States Ninth Infantry Division soldiers debarking from a river patrol boat 45 miles southwest of the capital in the Mekong Delta, ran into a fusillade that killed three Americans and wounded 21, spokesmen said. There were no reports of Communist losses.

In the Higlands, U.S. troops reported killing 16 North Vietnamese near Due Pho while losing one dead and four wounded. report cataloguing the complaints of 21 Latin nations, including Colombia, and urging concrete remedial measures. Mr. Nixon promised that the report would receive his Administration's serious consideration.

Officials said that the document, prepared by the Latin American Special Economic Coordinating Committee, would be the basis of study by U.S. and Latin economic experts at the nine-day Trinidad confer-ence. U.S.-Latin study groups are expected to be appointed at the Trinidad conference. They would examine specific Latin complaints and prepare recommendations for a top level OAS meeting late this year or early in 1970. The OAS recommendations, and a report that Gov.

Nelson A. Rockefeller is expected to make after completion of his hemisphere tour, will improve Mr. Nixon's chances of helping Latin America, officials believe. He will be in a stronger position to urge measures in Congress to help the area's lagging exporjs and to speed its Public disorders in Rockefeller's two trips and cancellation of his visits to Peru, Venezuela and Chile have lent urgency to Latin warnings against trade discrimination and cumbersome aid policies. -l Units That Will Leave Vietnam: Are Identified SAIGON, South Vietnam; June 14 (AP) The United States Command announced today that the First and Second brigades of the Ninth Infantry Division and Regimental Landing Team 9 of the Third Marine Division are the units to be withdrawn from South Vietnam by the end of August.

It was announced yesterday that units from the two divisions would be the first to leave the country, but the units had not been identified. The withdrawal of the two brigades will leave the Ninth i i i 's Third Brigade in Vietnam. It is based at Tan An, 25 miles southwest of Saigon in the Delta. The First and Second Brigades are based deeper in the delta. The Marine Regimental Landing Team is based in the northern part of the country below the Demilitarized Zone.

The identified units represent about 16,000 of the 25,000 to be withdrawn by Sept. 1. v1 Henry L. Stewart, part-time clerk in a Quick Shop at 12316 Bellefontaine Road, Spanish Lake, was fatally shot yesterday, apparently in a holdup. St a 47 years old, was alone in the market about 5:30 p.m., when a robber is believed to have entered.

Stewart's body was found a few minutes later by Howard Tate Jr. a customer. Tate told police he had followed a trail of blood from the cash registers to a service counter. Examination at St. i County Hospital showed that the victim had been shot twice in the head and possibly in the back.

Two cash registers were closed, but Stewart's wallet was missing. He lived at 4497 Rhine Drive, Florissant, and was employed also as a quality controller by a manufacturing firm. The Quick Shop is in a small shopping center. Persons on the parking lot reported seeing a tall, slender young man dressed in denim work clothes cross the lot about the time Stewart was killed. Witnesses said that they heard no shots.

County Chief of Detectives F. J. Vasel said that three suspects were checked by detectives. One man was cleared. The others are still under investigation but have not been arrested.

TWO MEN WERE wounded seriously in a shooting early today. The shooting was said to have resulted from a dispute over a gambling debt. Clinton Love, 38 years old, 2936A Hebert Street, is in Homer G. Phillips Hospital, with bullet wounds of the abdomen, right hand and right thigh. He Too Many Envelopes WASHINGTON, June 14 (UPI) Georgetown University disclosed yesterday that a computer erroneously had informed 250 applicants that they had been admitted as freshmen for the fall term.

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