A PEACE PLAN See Editorial Page CEI Sirl i an &ui&V MITTEN WEATHER High-35 Low-15 Cloudy and colder, snow flurries Vol. LXXX, No. 63 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, November 15, 1969 Ten Cents Congressional aides cite FBI for bus med By RON LANDSMAN FBI agents contacted their bus someone in the Canadian goern- thoroughly for conformation with total capacity. He said he was not tions of FBI or ICC regulations, bus c special To The DaUy companies and asked detailed ment had been contacted by some- ICC regulations. contacted by the ICC. the aides will continue to investi- Neie WASHINGTON - The staffs of questions about plans and funds one in the Nixon administration on The report is incomplete and Tony Mizadoni of Shortline gave gate because civil suits by the = case o at least four U.S. representatives to the point of so intimidating the this." contains a number of unaccura- a similar report. "There were a damaged parties may be available volvin; and two senators are looking into companies that they refused to -An official of the Chenango cies, but the congressional staff is few inquiries from the State Police. as an alternative. And charges that FBI and Interstate follow through on verbal agree- Valley Transit Co. told Frank continuing to investigate, although All they wanted was information The aide said a number of the ficatio Commerce Commission officials ments. Aasm, transportation coordinator the congressman himself has not about who was going, what the agreements may not have been YorkI actively harrassed transportation They also charged that ICC of- for Harpur College, that he had been in Washington most of the costs were and similar informa- affected by the government direct- ficials companies that had chartered ficials threatened to revoke or trouble getting buses because the week and does not know of the tion." ly, but that if contracts were vio- gruntl buses to carry anti-war demon- suspend carriers' licenses if they "FBI has been around." report. Because of this, the staff In his statement yesterday Rep. lated they would seek civil dam- have1 strators to Washington this week- supplied buses to anti-war pro- -Three companies that had has requested that it not be 'den- Robison of New York concluded ages. other end. testers for the Washington mass promised to contract buses to tified. that there was no cause for criti- The American Civil Liberties ton. Although a congressional in- march or the March Against Harpur for Harpur students were . cism of the government. Union is also reportedly inrerested "We vestigation is very far off in the Death, Nov. 13-15. all contacted by the FBI, although Two of the companies cited in "I have concluded ;hat there in the case but the officials work- volved future, and may have been killed A preliminary private report only the smallest of the three the report as being contacted by was no interference or pressure ing on it could not be reached for Sidney by a report released yesterday by prepared by the staff of anotner cancelled. The three companies the FBI said they did not find by the agents of either of these comment yesterday. Mobe Rep. Howard Robison (R-NY), New York member of Congress were Shortline of Binghamton, the contacts "intimidating." agencies (FBI or ICC) in tie cited However, the ACLU is interested plaine other officials are looking into specified the following charges: N.Y., National Trailways, and the "There was no pressure from the cases," he said. in a related case in New York City. ing th the complains, and those affected, -A Canadian company contact- Hudson Transit Co. of Harriman, FBI whatsoever," said S. T. Par- "Such cancellations as there At a press conference there 'Ihus- at chu especially in up-state New York, ed for subcontracting buses to an Pa. rish of the National Trailways Co. were were brought about either day the executive director of the in Wa are continuing to level charges. American cab company was told -Suffolk county police contact- when contacted by The Daily yes- by the Canadian government" of New York ACLU, Aryeh Neier, HeF The people who say their bus ar- by a high Canadian .overnment ed the Student Mobilization Com- terday. "They have not exerted other valid causes not involving said he had a documented rase in in wh ,rangments were fouled up by fed- official not to rent the buses for miteee at Stonybrook College and any force on anything." Parrish federal agencies. which FBI agents demanded that ton t eral officials - students at the the march. said if they tried to move any said the FBI simply wanted in- A congressional aid said that two senior executives of a large before State University of New York- "There seem to nave been ir- buses with "SDS types" on them formation on the number of buses although they may not be able bus charter agency in New York leave. Harpur College - maintain that dications," the report said, "that they would be stopped and checked going to Washington and their to make a case for specific viola- let them see and copy records of See Eight Pages ding harters for Washington. r said this was clearly a of "illegal FBI activity in- g chartering buses." despite the apparent clari- ns in the other cases in New State, New Mobilization of- are still extremely dis- ed at the difficulties they had in arranging bus and transportation to Washing- know the FBI has been in- In a number of cases," said Y Lens, a member of the New steering committee. He ?om- d that FBI agents were mak- ieir presence noticeably felt rches and movement centers shington and elsewhere. also cited a case in Chicago ich buses for the Washing- rip were cancelled shortly they were scheduled to Lens said someone from the CONGRESSIONAL, Page 8 Apollo 12 safe bad after launch POLICE, MARCH PROTESTERS SKR ISH; CO TI UES SPACE CENTER, Houston ( -- Three Americans blasted off yesterday on man's second trip to the moon's surface. A quick check of the lunar lander Intrepid revealed no damage from the scary brush with earth's lightning-spiked clouds at lift-off. The orders to check out the Intrepid came to Apollo 12 astronauts Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr. and Alan L. Bean less than six hours after their Cape Kennedy launch. The inspection of the spidery lunar lander originally had been scheduled for Monday, but there were fears that the early electrical surge the Apollo endured on the way up might have cut off electrical power to critical instruments in the D --lunar module. Most of the first eight hours of D O W stop s the flight were spent checking for electrical damage from the fright- Dowetopsng ride through boilingFlr ida clouds on the first leg of their trip to a Wednesday landing on the moon's weatherless Ocean of 1 Storms. Command pilot Conrad and napalmn lunar module pilot Bean entered Intrepid about 6:45 p.m. EST. MIDLAND,Mich,(M Do President Nixon, his wife and Chemical Co.,the target ofadaughter Tricia sat in the rain at ChmicamCo. themtart ons- Cape Kennedy to watch the tionwide campus launch, making Nixon the first against its manufacture of napalm U.S. President to personally view for use by U.S. forces in Vietnam a blast-off. is no longer making the incend- iary weapon for the government, Apollo 12 had a jolting start as a company spokesman said 1 a s t it thundered away from C a p e night. I Kennedy right on schedule at 'CHICAGO 8' PROTEST From Wire Service Reports WASHINGTON (A-Silently, solemnly, the March Against Death flowed through Wash- ington in an endless proces- sion throughout yesterday on the eve of today's climactic mass protest against the Viet- nam war. Meanwhile about 3.000 anti-war demonstrators led by Dr. Benja- min Spock participated yesterday in a noon rally at the Justice De- partment Bldg. to protest the 'Chi- cago 8' conspiracy trial. There were no disorders in the March Against Death, not even many words between spectators and the placarded file of youthful walkers. It passed the White House at the rate of 1,000 an hour, hour upon hour. Thursday nearly 45,000 march- ers proceeded from Arlington Na- tional Cemetery passed the White House. And yesterdayran estima- ted 30,000-35,000 marched along the same route, Rally leaders at the Justice De- partment originally had planned to encircle the building with a sin- gle-file line of picketers, however, the large crowd spilled off the sidewalk and into the street block- ing traffic several times. A request by Dr. Spock to enter, the building and talk with depart- ment officials about the Chicago trial was denied. An informal rallyI outside the building was held and1 PEACEFULLY 31 ARRESTED IN FIRST MAJOR D.C. OUTBREAK Special To The Daily WASHINGTON - Metropolitan police, backed up by about 200 National Guardsmen, skirmished with some 3000 demonstrators here last night about one mile northwest of the White House. The clash followed an abortive attempt to stage a march and a rally at the South Vietnamese Embassy. Re'peated billows of tear gas, window breaking and wild skirmishing broke the tranquility of the massive three day protest. At least nine persons, including seven policemen have been injured and 31 people were reported arrested. As of 2 a.m. this morning, only The spokesman for the Midland- based company said Dow has not produced any napalm "in several months," He said a new contract to pro- .LSA conviction Roy Mash, '70, was found guilty yesterday by a six man jury of both contention and causing a disturbance during the LSA Bldg. sit-in Sept. 25. Mash will be sentenced Nov. 21 by District Judge Sanford J. Elden. Mash's conviction is 4 - . 4 4. - _ 1- * ; I 11:22 a.m. through a heavy rain- storm, the worst conditions ever for an American manned launch- ing. Forty-five seconds into the flight there was a sudden dropout of much of the spacecraft's elec- trical power. Three power-p r o- during fuel cells and a key ele- ment of the guidance system sud- denly were inoperative. The astronauts reported there were so many abort lights t h e y couldn't count them. Using their experiences as jet pilots, the y promptly pushed circuit breakers that restored the electrical power. -Associated Press WASHINGTON POLICE advance spreading a giant cloud of tear gas as police and demonstrators skirmished last night in front of the South Vietnamese embassy. Meanwhile at the U An overcast, empt day 700 persons remained in Du Pont Circle. The outbreak of violence did not affect the March Against Death, which continued in front of the White House. Fleeing tear gas, demonstrators ran through a middle class neigh- borhgod, smashing storefront win- dows as they went. Police carried night sticks but rarely used them relying mainly on tear gas, papper gas and CS gas to disperse the demonstrators. Meanwhile, the New Mobiliza- tion Committee disavowed anyxre- sponsibility for the protest and ensuing violence. "The demon- stration tonight was not sponsored by New Mobe nor was it endorsed by the committee," their official statement read. "We reaffirm our commitment to legal and n o n - violent demonstration these three days in Washington," the Mobili- zation said. Fliers for the demonstration said it was sponsored by the Mad- dogs, the Crazies and the Weath- ermen. The demonstration had been or- ganized by the Revolutionary Con- tingent in Solidaritywith the Vietnamese People, a coalition of! about 30 militant anti-war groups. Earlier this week the police had denied their request for a permit to march. The demonstrators rallied nev- ertheless at DuPont Circle in downtown D.C. about 8:30 p.m. and marched up Massachusetts Ave. toward the embassy where they were met by a line of police blocking the entire street and sidewalks. Strung in a single line with a back-up force, the police were equipped with tear gas, pepper fog machines, gas masks, and special lights. It is unclear how the melee started. Several reports indicate that police moved first to spread tear gas and pepper fog to prevent the advance of the marchers. Stu- dents reportedly responded with epithets and rocks. See POLICE, Page 8 Michigan residet join .trek By DAVE CHUDWIN Special To The Daily WASHINGTON - Braving freezing temperatures a n d intermittent rain, more than 3000 Michigan residents, in- cluding many from Ann Ar- bor, joined in a "March Against Death" Thursday, yes- terday and early today. Prominent citizens of Ann Ar- bor, including Mayor Robert Har- ris and Human Relations Direc- tor David Cowley and HRC of- ficial Robert Hunter, marched the 4 mile route from Arlington Na- tional Cemetery to the foot of the Capitol. Although only 47,000 people, in- cluding 3000 from this state, were expected to march, an estimated 100,000 have made the trek, bear- ing the names of servicemen killed in action or of villages de- stroyed during combat. The response has been 3 u s t great," said Otto Deutsch, direct- or of the reception center for par- ticipants from Michigan and 15 other states. "We have more marchers than we need." A large majority of the state contingent was from the Univer- sity community. Thirty four buses and more than 200 cars headed from Ann Arbor to Washington for the march. Other large groups came from Detroit, Flint, Western Michigan University and Michi- gan State University. "It was very solemn as a whole," cidl bphp Ya l nn f th Life can be lonely for the silent majority who chose to spend the weekend in Ann Arbor. With 34 of' Mobilization's char- tered buses gone, the silen'. halls thLsixteenth sIince'thetrials "I think we were hit by light- began ih October. Eight stu- ning," Conrad reported, saying dents were acquitted earlier he saw a bright flash outside the this month, cabin window at the moment of power dropout. duce the jellied gasoline for t h e Launch officials doubted t h e I government was awarded several spacecraft or the Saturn 5 rocket weeks ago to American Electric beneath it had been struck by Co. of Los Angeles. Dow was an lightning. However, some flashes unsuccessful bidder for the new were sighted in the area of the contract, he said. rocket as it rose. Dow began producing napalm at its plant in Torrance, Calif., in 1966. The spokesman said the contract was worth about $10 r ii million a year The manufacture of napalm byByRC ELF Dow has been the subject of heat- By RICK PERLOFF ed national controversy, much of and ROBERT KRAFTOWITZ it focused against Dow recruit- special To The Daily ers on the nation's campuses, WASHINGTON - "Will you Last year, while antiwar de- take three couples and three monstrators picketed outside the boys?" shouted a Mobe worker firm's annual meeting, Dow board at Asbury Methodist Church to chairman Carl E. Gerstacker a middleaged lady who had just pledged that the company would volunteered her home as shel- continue to make napalm as long ter for the demonstrators. as the government said it had a This request characterized the nedn o.the hswquhoatz broke up when an SDS leader left, and empty classrooms stand as taking about 200 persons with a mute reminder that Ann Arbor him. isn't where the action is. Signs that this weekend would The Associated Press estimated be a quiet one appeared early to- last night that 250,000 will par- day as attendance in the literary ticipate in today's mass march college noticeably dropped with which will proceed down Pennsyl- some professors cancelling their vania Ave. two blocks from the classes to participate in the Wash- Although University officials did not estimate the drop in at- tendance, an informal survey in- dicates that most literary collegej classes suffered an average drop in attendance of 30 per cent. At- tendance in the Engineering Col- lege reportedly was normal. Some professors, including Prof. John Bailey of the Near Eastern studies department, and P r o f. Walter Spink of the Art History, dept. cancelled classes to attend the Washington march. But the number of class can- White House. ington march. cellations came no where near the number cancelled for the Oct. 15 moratorium. "I think we were all up for the last one in October," says Prof. Russell Fraser, chair- man of the English Department, "but there hasn't been the same sort of response this time." However, mne diligent student who attended classes often found there was very little to miss. One teaching fellow told his class what to do if they got in trouble in Washington instead of teaching a regular class. Students attending an educational psychology section found the class had been can- celled and would be held Monday evening for a discussion of the Vietnamese war. After attending an economics section where only three people at- tended, one freshman summed up the attitude of many students - "I shouldn't have bothered to go." However, one speech 410 stu- dent said attendance was norm- al," even a couple of our radidals were there." Students in the medical school were in class as usual yesterday and are expected to be there today. Anatomy Prof. Dr. Theodore C. natthe as the New Mobe organizers run out of housing spaces. At 12:05 a.m. Julian Dugas, special assistant to the mayor, called the New Mobe's head- quarters and informed them of the mayor's decision. The announcement came shortly after New Mobe leaders had announced that although a few spaces were available, they were gscare. inn? As Moe and the "friendly atmosphere of stay. So, the Connecticut lad the city." has played musical beds since University student Tom San- arriving in Washington. dercock, '72, said he was stepped The first night he met several over continually while sleeping people who invited him to their in the moratorium offices as commune; the second he met a moratorium leaders carried box- waitress who invited him home es, and answered calls. B ut for the night. And last night, Sandercock said he didn't mind he struck up a conversation with and spent much of that day do- several girls about their home- ing work for the moratorium, towns and moments later he mg wn i r 1t pi mor orium. w as prom ised shelter. Norm Finkesein.m 71. n- _.,.. i saza Reu en Y armus, one OI the University marchers. "At the end O tof the march., people were almost On tod ys intears." On y e I Along the patch of the march, Page Thabout 200 marshalls guided the procession. There were no city 0 U anti-war protesters en- nolice nt most stretintersection