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Nov. 11, 1969 Tallahassee Democrat Losses S. Viet War Losses Heavy at Bu Dop Dop nel carriers and four trucks have been destroyed and half a dozen American helicopters have been shot A total of 60 WHorth Vietnamese troops were reported' killed, but one officer said the kill ratio four enemy dead to one South Vietnamese or U.S. soldier "is substantially on the bad side." "The casualties are heavy compared to the enemy said another field officer. Most of the allied casualties have been Vietnamese tribesmen, mercenaries paid and led by American Green Beret troops.

These are called Mobile Strike Force troops, and they form the bulk of nearly 1,000 reinforcement troops who have been deployed around Bu Dop to counter a sizeable North Vietnamese buildup. "It's a Vietnamese Army show as far as the ground fightis said one American officer. "We are working with them closely. They own the entire area and so they ought to be involved. Back in May we'd have gone in.

Now we are working with them. We are up to our necks in MOBILE STRIKE Force troops battled about 400 North Vietnamese six miles south of Bu Dop for hours Monday night. In the heavy exchange of fire, 24 of the enemy were reported killed, while two of the Vietnamese tribesmen were killed and nine wounded, sources said. American helicopters from the 1st Air Cavalry Division supported the mercenaries, and two were shot down and a third one hit by machine-gun fire. Two American crewmen were wounded.

A mile away, North Vietnamese troops for the second time in four days attacked an American artillery base called Jerri that was set up last week support Bu Dop. The North Vietnamese pumped 30 rounds of 120mm and 82mm mortar shells into the base, killing five Americans and wounding five. The North Vietnamese followed The North Vietnamese followed up with a small ground probe, but it "never really unfolded," said one officer. North Vietnamese losses were not known. Farther south, 67 miles northwest of Saigon, a U.S.

reconnaissance plane sighted North Vietnamese troops 10 miles from the Cambodian border and called in dive bombers. Troops from the 1st Cavalry moved into the area after the bombing and found the bodies of 37 North Vietnamese soldiers. There were no U.S. casualties. In the Mekong Delta, troops of a North Vietnamese regiment that moved into the delta last summer continued their attacks on South Vietnamese militiamen guarding the district town of Tri Ton in the Seven Mountains region about 125 miles southwest of Saigon.

The North Vietnamese attacked two militia companies south of Tri Ton, killing two of them and a civilian and wounding 16 militiamen and a civilian. Eight enemy soldiers were reported killed. U.S. headquarters reported another American helicopter was shot down 51 miles northeast of Saigon, wounding one crewman. Thirty-three enemy rocket and mortar attacks were reported between 8 a.m.

Monday and 8 a.m. today. The U.S. Command said 13 of the attacks caused casualties or damage and seven Americans were wounded. Wallace Is Impressed By Saigon SAIGON (AP) George C.

Wallace of Alabama toured housing projects in Saigon Tuesday, saw grim refugee camps, patted children on the head and declared afterward the experience had left him "heartwashed." "I heard of a fellow who came here once and then said he had been brainwashed," he said. "Well, I don't know about that. But I do know I've been heartwashed today. "You see these people who suffered so much and yet have come right back and the former governor and presidential candidate said, gesturing with clenched fists. "I makes you love the Vietnamese people more." He Walks Away With Zinc Boots STOCKHOLM (UPI) -Police are looking for the person or persons who pilfered a pair of boots weighing 220 pounds.

The boots, made of zinc, had been displayed as a trade mark in front of a shoe store for more than 53 years. Pottstown Mercury Mr. Nixon We Support You! Army says servicemen who wear their uniforms in this week's "march against death" demonstration in the nation's capital will be arrested, turned over to their commanders and perhaps court-martialed. This warning came as the Pentagon alerted several thousand troops outside the Washington area for possible capital duty should violence erupt at the war protest demonstration. personnel participate in these activities while in uniform will be in violation of Department of Defense and Department of the Army directives and the Army said.

"Violators will be subject to apprehension and referral to their commanding officers for appropriate action." Maximum punishment for "violating or failing to obey any general order or regulation" is two years at hard labor plus a dishonorable discharge. Commanding officers could chose some form of less severe administrative-typediscipline. still involved in defending the inalienable right of liberty; and for those whose memory we honor with a star of gold, let us pause in silent tribute on this Veterans Day, praying they did not die in vain and that their sacrifices will bring us Placing of the traditional presidential wreath for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery was assigned to David Packard, deputy secretary of denense. And the administrator of veterans affairs, Donald E. Johnson prepared a speech warmly supporting Nixon's attempt to end the war in Vietnam.

He said tickets for all reserved seats for the 11 a.m. program at Arlington were taken for the first time in 16 years. Johnson, a former national commander of the American Legion and a Nixon appointee, strongly endorsed the use of Veterans Day to show support for the administration's Vietnam policy. He sent 100,000 packets of material to school and community leaders. "I do not presume to speak for him (Nixon)," Johnson said in his prepared remarks.

"However, I do know how dedicated he is to the task of achieving the theme of Veterans Day 1969 peace with honor "To those who may think, or would have others think, that they alone understand and abhor the suffering and savagery of war-to them I say now that they do an injustice to America's 40 million veterans, living and dead. And they deceive themselves." Associated Press Wirephoto Pottstown, Paper Lists Silent Majority page and next four pages lists 5,054 names front Gl Dress U.S. Honoring Is Barred The War Dead On M-Day From Page 1 monies throughout our land, WASHINGTON (AP) The thousands of Americans are THE ARMED forces police detachment of the Military Dis trict of Washington has been assigned to watch for violations during the scheduled activities from Thursday through Saturday. Representatives from the Pentagon met with officials from the Justice Department on Monday to discuss, among other things, where servicemen would be jailed for engaging in the demonstrations. Basis for the arrests would be the Pentagon's Sept.

12 directive restricting off-post demonstrations by It reads in part: "Members of the armed forces are prohibited from participating in off-post demonstrations when they are on duty, or in a foreign country, or when their activities constitute a breach of law or order, or when violence is likely to result, or when they are in uniform Under this provision, military authorities feel they can deal not only with those in uniform, but with dissident servicemen who wear civilian clothing. The Justice Department has said violence may be expected. And a serviceman not in uniform would be violating the regulation if he participated in some activity for which no permit has been issued. In a closely related matter, Pentagon legal experts were debating whether action could be taken against servicemen who allow their names to be used publicly in behalf of war protest activities. Italian Romeo Halts His Train MESSINA, Italy (UPI)Giuseppe Lo Faro was asked why he pulled the communication cord on a train.

He said he did it for love. He explained to officials he spotted a comely blonde at the railroad station and thought had boarded the train. But she hadn't, so Lo Faro halted the train to retrace his steps. He faces a heavy fine, but said: "If only I had found that girl, it would have been worth it." Israeli, Arab Planes in Duel Over the Canal SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese forces have suffered comparatively heavy losses in a week of fighting around the Bu Dop Special Forces camp 85 miles north of Saigon, official sources reported today. The sources said 15 allied soldiers have been killed, 75 wounded, three armored person- under oath that they made contributions running into thousands of dollars to the Governor's fund nor that some of them are willing to admit informally that they were aware that it would at least not hurt their business with the state.

Declare From Page 1 That sort of thing has been going on in Florida (and perhaps all other states) for decades; and i if they could dredge up testimony from previous administrations they might find scandals that would make Kirk look lily white. But precedent doesn't make the system right, even if it shown that the contributions were volunteered as a matter of hope instead of extracted from the donor by threat or promise. The most practical benefit that may come from testimony to the Transportation Committee so far would be a law requiring that' for engineering and consultant work must be awarded on competitive bids. They now are granted through negotiation, which makes every bidder aware without suggestion that it might be prudent sweeten some politician's favorite pot if no more than to keep even with his competitors, whom he naturally suspects. As a matter of fact, most of the professional engineers probably would prefer to get out from under this compulsion to contribute.

Whether it is expressed or implied, it costs them money they probably would rather use otherwise or trim off their bid for state work. Dig deep you'll likely find contributions to rival candidates. And highway building isn't the only place to look for improper, to be contributions. found around They deals for state insurance, fiscal agents for bond financing, bank deposits of state money anyplace where sizeable public funds are put out without open competitive bidding. Kirk's Governor's Club fund is particularly vulnerable now more vulnerable to attack than when he started it; because he could not succeed himself then, but now he can.

That makes a difference. He started it, ostensibly, to help pay off the Wackenhut corporation for its "war on crime" which he started without legislative authority and for which he ran up a big debt in the name of the public. It more lately, has been tapped, apparently, to pay expenses of the governorship which State funds do not cover but which Kirk, anyway, thinks should not be his personal obligation. Before the Constitution was changed to permit the Governor to succeed himself, this fund was liable to questioning on propriety. Undoubtedly, it was easier for the Governor to raise a supplemental fund because he was Governor and would continue to be Governor for most of four years.

If it was used to pay old campaign debts, it would be unlawful but Kirk wouldn't be the first governor to learn it is easier to raise campaign funds you are elected than before. That suspicion now surrounds the Governor's Club. Furthermore, now that Kirk can succeed himself and apparently is going to try, there is very pertinent question of whether the Governor's Club fund is going to be transformed from a supplementary pot for payment of governorship expenses into a slush fund for unreported campaign expenses. Any way you take it, the net is closing in on Kirk and he is going to have to make a clean breast of who contributed what to his Club and who got what as a result. If he won't open it up for the legislators, he'll have to do, it for the voters or go into the 1970 election as a highly suspect candidate.

Reform Plan Is Limited WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Armed Services Committee has put senators notice that reform of the military draft this year will be limited to the President's lottery proposal or there will be no reform at all. Chairman John C. Stennis, D- with the unanimous vote of his committee behind him, issued that notice Monday although he insisted several times it was no ultimatum. Stennis said he would meet with senators who want sweeping, comprehensive overhaul of the Selective Service System now, to try to persuade them to hold off reform amendments until next year. Democrat's Own Weather Almanac Today is Tuesday, Nov.

11, the 315th day of 1969 with 50 to follow. The moon is between its new phase and first quarter. On this date in 1921, President Warren Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. FORECAST Generally fair skies and mild through Wednesday, but days cool again tonight. The high will be near 80, the low today tonight near 38, and the high Wednesday near 78.

Yesterday's high was 79, and the low this morning was 36. Winds are variable, at 4 to 12 miles per hour. OUTLOOK Partly cloudy and mild, Wednesday night and Thursday. RAINFALL Total 24 hrs. ending midnight .03 Total this month 1 66.85 Total since Jan.

Above normal since Jan. 15.21 FLORIDA High Low Prec. Apalachicola 73 54 Jacksonville 76 48 Key West 78 68 Miami 79 57 Ocala 76 Orlando Pensacola Sarasota TALLAHASSEE Tampa West Palm Beach 79 55 NATIONAL High Low Prec. Atlanta 68 41 Boston 49 48 2.44 Charlotte 35 Chicago 47 41 Cleveland Denver Detroit Fairbanks .03 Indianapolis Kansas City Los Angeles 62 Louisville 43 .04 Memphis 55 Milwaukee New Orleans New York .02 Phoenix Richmond St. Louis 45 San Francisco 72 Seattle .04 Washington 45 SUN MOON Rise Set Rise Set Today 7:00 1:43 9:01 a.m.

7:03 p.m. Wednesday 7:00 5:42 10:09 a.m. 8:06 p.m. APALACHICOLA RIVER DATA AT BLOUNTSTOWN Today 4.5 falling Wednesday 4.5 stationary normal since November .63 Thursday 4.5 stationary Below Date From U.S. WEATHER BUREAU ESSA COLD 20 50.

8 COLDER 40 Rein Showers 50 Snow FORECAST Flurries Figures Show Low Temperatures Expected Until Wednesday Morning Isolated Precipitation Net Indicated- Consult Lecel Forecast WEATHER FORECAST Showers are forecast tonight for most of the Northeast to the central Great Lakes regions, southwestern Texas and Washing- ton's west coast. Snow is expected in the northern Rockies from Idaho to Wyoming. (AP Wirephoto Map) TEL AVIV (AP) Israeli and Egyptian planes dueled over the Suez Canal today, and the Israelis claimed their airmen shot down three of the Egyptian jets. This raised to 57 the number of Egyptian planes which Israel claims to have destroyed since the 1967 war. The A last claim was on Oct.

6, when the Israelis said they shot down three MIGs over the Israeli-occupied Sinai desert. Israel admits to the loss of only 14 warplanes in action against all its Arab neighbors since the 1967 war. Israel said all of its planes returned safely from the dogfight today. But Cairo Radio said the Egyptian jets shot down two Israeli planes, with one plunging into the Gulf of Suez and the other crashing on land in flames. Cairo admitted the loss of one Egyptian jet but said the rest returned to base safely.

AN ISRAELI spokesman said the air battle took place about 8:30 a.m. over the southern part of the blocked waterway during an Israeli air raid on Egyptian targets. The Israeli fliers brought down the three Egyptian jets with air-to-air missiles and gunfire, the spokesman said. He reported all the planes went down on the Egyptian side of the canal, that one disintegrated, the wings of another fell off, andt. pilot of the third bailed out.

The dogfight raged from low levels up to a height of 20,000 feet, the spokesman said. It was the second day of intense air activity over the canal. On Monday, Egyptian planes attacked Israeli positions at the northern and southern ends of the waterway, while Israeli planes attacked the Egyptian side of the Gulf of Suez hit Egyptian military targets along the central sector of the canal. An Israeli senior staff officer said Monday that Israeli planes have knocked out all Egypts antiaircraft missile sties along 103-mile Suez Canal during the past three months and have damaged or destroyed all Egyptian radar sites along the waterway and the Gulf of Suez. In Cairo, meanwhile, the Joint Arab Defense Council resolved Monday night at the end of a three-day conference that "mobilization and force" is the only solution to the Israeli crisis.

The council also agreed "in principle" to an Arab summit conference in Rabat, Morocco, and set Dec. 20-22 as the tentative date. Another council resolution accused the U.S. government of an "aggressive act" against, the Arab nations because it would Utility Line Tax Bill Is Rejected A proposed bill, killed in the House Local Government Committee yesterday, would have cost Tallahassee an estimated $60,000 to $80,000 in state sales tax on new transmission lines for the city electrical utilities expansion program now under way. City Atty.

Roy Rhodes represented Tallahassee at the hearing which drew officials from other Florida municipalities which operate their own electrical systems. Rep. Guy Spicola, D-Tampa, author of the bill, said his intent was to tax distribution lines also and that he would seek such an amendment but the committee voted overwhelmingly against the measure after hearing city officials say that utilities profits are necessary to finance municipal government and keep property taxes down. Spicola said he wanted to put private power companies, subject to sales tax on their systems, on an equal footing with municipal systems. The 1969 Legislature in the closing hours of the regular session knocked out the sales tax exemption on heavy equipment used in production of power by municipalities.

Tallahassee barely averted a heavy tax load by having purchased earlier most of the equipment for its new west side power plant. Singer Plea: Not Guilty MIAMI (UPI) Rock singer Jim Morrison, leader of The Doors, pleaded innocent to charges of indecent exposure and lewd behavior or stemming from a wild rock concert in Miami last March before 10,000 teenagers. A "Youth Decency" rally was organized following the concert to protest Morrison's alleged actions. not prevent persons with dual Israeli and American citizenship from serving in the Israeli armed 1 forces. The resolution added that "Israeli aggression against the Arabs is consolidated by the United States' continuous supplies of arms and warplanes to Israel" and said it would resist "the American stand with all possible means." In Moscow, Soviet Premier Alexei N.

Kosygin told visiting Sudanese Prime Minister Jaafar el that Israel's occupation of Arab land offends the "profound national feelings" of the Arabs and could turn out to be "disastrous for Israel and dangerous for universal peace." He said the Arabs will not "accept the seizure." The signed an agreement to expand trade relations. The Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Yosef Tekoah, called U.N. Secretary and al Thant Monday asked him to help persuade the Soviet Union to let 18 Jewish families leave their homes in Soviet Georgia for new ones in Israel. Blastoff Forecast Is Good CAPE KENNEDY (AP) speaking up, proudly proclaiming their unashamed love of America, and urging the overwhelming silent maiority of their fellow Americans to join them. Scheduled as the centerpiece of today's heightened Veterans Day activities was an afternoon "Freedom Rally for Freedom in Vietnam and All the World" on the grounds of the Washington Monument-also the scene of Saturday's anti war protest.

The Grand Ol' "Opry was called in to entertain between speeches by members of the House and Sen. John Tower, R- Tex, Coordinators of the rally said Monday if the weather was good they expected about below the estimates of a quarter-million and up being put out by war protest groups for Saturday. "The problem is," Tower said wryly, "most of the silent majority are working people who can't get away from their jobs." Across the land, supporters of Nixon's war course were being urged to light their headlights and porchlights, fly the Stars and Stripes, parade, wear armbands and "I Love America" signs, and pray. "It's high time," Tower said, "we had a public outpouring of sentiment from those who support our efforts. I just don't think those who are protesting represent the majority of this country's students and young A number of organizations are trying to expand the administration demonstrations to the whole week.

Participants can take their choice of names for it: Operation Speak Out, A Week of Unity, United We Stand, National Confidence Week, Honor America Week. The Republican National Committee's weekly newsletter urged Americans who support Nixon's course to "stand up and be counted, let know Let your voice be heard." Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, who has taken a hard line against anti -war demonstrators, said Monday their tactics are a pointless "carnival in the street" that prove nothing. Agnew called on the public "to raise our voices in spirited defense of the most successful society the world has yet known." Blasts From Page 1 occurred on the 20th floor near a bank of elevators in the 70- story skyscraper. "It was one hell of a big noise and it scared me to death," said maintenance man William Lynch.

At least half a dozen patrons in the plush Rainbow Room on the 65th floor of the building had to walk down because the elevator was knocked out of service. At GM, the blast ripped through a service elevator on the 19th floor. The one injury was sustained by the elevator operator when his car plunged from the 17th to the 11th floor before it stopped. At the Chase Manhattan building, the explosion on the 16th floor tore out several plate glass windows and caused other "extensive police said. The weatherman today forecast good conditions for Friday's launching of the Apollo 12 astronauts on man's second moon landing voyage.

The prediction came as two of the astronauts, who will fly the world's most sophisticated machine, trained in more prosaic vehicles a helicopter and a jet plane. After checking progress of the countdown at the launch pad, Charles Conrad Jr. and Richard F. Gordon Jr. drove to nearby Patrick Air Force Base.

Conrad, who will command the Apollo 12 mission, operated the helicopter as if he were hovering before selecting a landing spot on the moon. Gordon zipped above southern Florida in a T38 jet plane. THE THIRD astronaut, Alan L. Bean, ran through emergency checkout procedures in the lunar module training vehicle. He and Conrad are to land on the moon while Gordon orbits in the command ship.

The Weather Bureau's spaceflight meteorology group said a cold front would pass through the Cape Kennedy area Thursday but that conditions Friday would be satisfactory, with partly cloudy skies, moderate northerly winds and temperature about 60 degrees. The forecast for potential abort landing areas calls for moderate winds and seas. At the launch pad everything continued on schedule as crews prepared the Saturn 5 rocket and the two spaceships for launching at 11:22 a.m. EST Friday. At 9 a.m.

today the count entered a 16-hour built-in hold to provide the launch team with rest. When it resumes early Wednesday, liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen will be pumped into the command ship's powerproducing fuel cells. JOHNSON PICKED up Nixon's "silent majority" theme as he said it is "gratifying, indeed inspiring, to note that today in Veterans Day cereManila Favors Marcos MANILA (AP) President Ferdinand E. Marcos took an early lead today in first returns from national elections that saw heavy voting for president, vice president and members of Congress. Five hours after polling booths closed, unofficial returns from Manila and suburbs gave Marcos 28,417 votes and challenger Sen.

Sergio Osmena Jr. 23,058. The trend was significant because Manila has never given a majority to an incumbent president. Reports of violence in scattered areas poured into Manila during the day but officials said that over-all voting was orderly and perhaps less violent than in years past. Nevertheless the death toll since the campaign opened in June appeared to pass 50.

Stinging Reply EXETER, England (AP) Dr. Kenneth Mellanby had just been telling a scientific conference about the benefits to mankind of insect pest control when a wasp flew in the window and stung him. "Maybe it was some sort of revenge," he commented. Deaths Rev. John B.

Davis MOORE HAVEN The Rev. John B. Davis died General Monday afternoon in Hendry Hospital of Clewiston. The Rev. Davis was a native of Wakulla County, and had lived in Moore Haven since 1930.

Mrs. Survivors include his wife, Lucille M. Davis, Moore and Haven; one son, John L. Davis, one grandson, both of Tallahassee. Reddick Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Dale F. Johnson Dale F. Johnson, 60, was found dead Monday in his apartment at 223 W. College Johnson was employed by Burgerchef on W. Tennessee.

Survivors include two brothers, Marvel Johnson and Wayne Johnson, both of Decatur, Ind. Bevis Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. W. J. Moore HAVANA W.

J. Moore, 81, Havana, died Monday at the Extended Care Center of Tallahassee. He was a native of Elizabeth City, N. and moved to Havana in 1949. Survivors include one daughter, Mrs.

Jim Donaldson, Havana; one son, William James Moore, III, Florence, S. C. Services will be in Walterboro, S. with Butler Morgan Funeral Home of Quincy in 1 charge of local arrangements..