1 THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 19637. THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE Dodd Says Soviet Treaty Ask Court To BLASTS RIVAL: Could Hinder War Effort -i Reapportion Local Units To Assign One-man, One-vote Doctrine to City, County Districts WASHINGTON (P)--The fed- eral government asked the Su- preme Court yesterday to extend the one-man, one-vote doctrine to county and city governmentl throughout the country. Powell Calls Meredith 'Unformidable'Opponent Ratification By Senate Anticipated Cooperation To End Vietnam War Sought As Treaty Prologue WASHINGTON (P) - Outnum- bered Senate foes of the U.S.- Soviet consular treaty charged yesterday it is a diplomatic con- cession that could prolong the wa in Vietnam. Sen. Thomas J. Dodd D-Conn) said approval of the treaty now wotild convince people "we've gone crazy." But the angry debate-in a sparsely-attended Senate - ap- peared to be little more than a detour on the way to Senate rati- fication of the treaty, one step by which President Johnson seeks to build bridges of understanding between East and West. Ratification Expected Ratification, which will take a two-thirds majority of the sena- tors voting, is expected some time next week. Dodd. said the treaty should not be approved until the Soviet Union cooperates in ending the Vietnam war. Ratification would run "counter to the policy of firm- ness' that can ultimately thwart Communist expansion in Vietnam, he said. "It is a violation of good sense and good taste and national dig- nity to enact such an agreement at a time when thousands of our fighting men are being killed by Soviet weapons and perhaps even by Soviet experts in Vietnam" Dodd said. Formal Reservation Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R-SD), put his opposition into a formal re- servation to the treaty, proposing that its operation be delayed until President Johnson can assure Con- gress that Soviet weapons are not prolonging the war in Vietnam. Mundt said he had no head count to indicate outcome of the debate, but he forecast it would be close. A supporter of the treaty, Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn), said he believes at least 80 of the Sen- ate's 100 members will vote for approval. The convention would set guide- lines for the treatment of citizens of one country arrested in the other, and grants diplomatic im- munity to consulate staffs. State Department The State Department has said those guidelines would lead to the opening of one Soviet consulate in the United States and a U.S. consulate in Leningrad. Mundt carried his fight to a Republican conference, but Sen. Thruston B. Morton of Kentucky, chief GOP promotor of the agree. ment, said he did not think the session had changed any minds. Mundt's reservation proposals would delay operation of the con- vention until President Johnson advised Congress that American troops were no longer needed in Vietnam-or that Soviet weapons were not responsible for keeping them there. World New By The Associated Press WASHINGTON - Congress sent to President Johnson yesterday a bill authorizing $4.5 billion for additional purchases of aircraft, missiles and other expenditures for Vietnam. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield told his colleagues he does not believe changes made in a Vietnam war policy statement by a Senate-House conference committee changed the intent. * * * WASHINGTON - The govern- ment plans to cut off a 'cost-of- living allowance now provided to more than 31,200 U.S. servicemen In Vietnam. The Pentagon said yesterday that effective May 1 the so-called "COLA" - cost-of-living-allow- By The Associated Press BIMINI, Bahamas - Putting Adam Clayton Powell back in Con- gress is a major civil rights strug- gle that will be encouraged na- tionwide, the leader of a civil rights group said yesterday . Floyd McKissick, executive di- rector of the Congress of Racial Equality CORE, said CORE would Because of "malapportionment" give Powell its total support and at the local level, millions of "we have been told that we have Americans are denied full and the support of the Southern effective participation in local Christian Leadership Conference," government, U.S. Solicitor Gen- the organization led by Dr. Mar- eral Thurgood Marshall told the tin Luther King. ,i I went to Congress, and there is any moment," the aide said. no Meredith now." . McKissick, asked if Carmichael A Powell aide said McKissick would support Powell, replied, "I was "the first of the civil rights can speak only for CORE. But we Big Six to fly here to see hir." expect widespread support in this He said the Big Six were the Na- movement." tional Association for the Ad- McKissick said a Powell head- ancPmthe UrbaColoreaue, t quarters was being set up in CORE d e n t Nonviolent Coordinating headquarters in Harlem but that Committee SNCC, Philip Ran- the Powell movement would be dolph, head of the Sleeping Car encouraged nationwide. Porters Union, the National Asso- "If in California or the North or ciation of Negro Women and South or in the East a con- CORE. gressman votes against Adam "Stokeley Carmichael," head of Clayton Powell, the constituents in SNCC, the so-called black power their districts will take it into ac- movement, "is expected here at count," McKissick said. UAWTakes Control OfManisfield Local -Associated Press. M1EDIC RECEIVES AWARD Lawrence Joel is shown above relaxing with his family in a Washington hotel before a meeting to- day with President Johnson. Joel will be the first medical aide to receive the Medal of Honor. RUN-OFF ELECTION: Communst Oppostion Poses, Threat to DeGaulle Majority court. "It is the position of the United States that, as a matter of con- stitutional principle, logic and sound policy, the principles of Reynolds apply to local govern- mental bodies whose members are elected from districts and require that those districts be substan- tially equal in population," Mar- shall said in a memorandum. Reynolds Decision In the 1964 Reynolds decision, the Supreme Court ruled that both houses of state legislatures must be based on districts that are sub- tantially equal in population . The high court alo has held U.S. congressional districts must be based on this one-man, one-vote principle. These decisions have effected a revolutionary change in congres- sional and state legislative rep- resentation. In the main, they have given city voters a larger voice in government. Three Cases Last December the Supreme SCourtagreed to takeonsthree cases that question extension of one man, one vote to county gov- ernment and county school boards. In January the court .agreed to hear a fourth case that involved possible application to city gov- ernment. The federal government made its position known in a "friend of the court" brief in a fifth case. The court has yet to announce whether this case will be heard. In this case, citizens of Mid- land County, Tex., are asking the court to rule that the county must be redistricted on a population basis. Supported Principle The government made it clear that it supported the one-man, one-vote principle not only in Midland County but throughout the country. The four other casee involve the Kent County, Mich., School Board, the governing board of Houston County, Ala., the Board of Super- visors in Suffolk County, N.Y. and the Governing Council of Virginia Beach, Va. Marshall said the governmentj was stepping in because of the possibility that the court might not rule on the issue in the Ala- bama and New York cases. McKissick announced his sup-! port at a news conference at which Powell belittled the civil rights activity of James H. Meredith, who plans to run as the Republicans' choice against Powell in a special congressional election April 11. "Meredith, who is he?" asked Powell, jaunty with a small cob pipe and surrounded under a palm tree by newsmen and photo- graphers. Told that Meredith was the Negro who attended the University of Mississippi in a move to break the color line at that school Powell asked: "How many Negroes go there now, by the way?" "I don't know Meredith," Powell said. Powell, a Democrat excluded from the 90th Congress, said SMeredithewould not be a formi- dable opponent in the election. Meredith, Powell said, is "not even a civil rights leader." "What civil rights group has Meredith led?" asked Powell, wearing a yellow sports shirt and white shoes. DETROIT (M--The United Auto Workers union yesterday took control of a rebellious Ohio local that is threatening a wildcat walk- out which could cripple General Motors auto production. President Walter P. Reuther an- nounced the action on behalf of the UAW international executive board. Reuther and other board mem- bers called for the strikers to re- turn to work promptly at the Mansfield, Ohio, plant, a key facil- ity in GM auto production. The UAW statement said "the overwhelming majority" of mem- bers of the offending Local 459 in Mansfield did not support the "There was no Meredith before current strike by "a tiny handful" Viet Cong Attack Camps U.S. Holds Near 'Saigonl PARIS (P)-President Charles de Gaulle declared yesterday that "what is involved is the re- public and liberty" in next Sun- day's runoff election for the Na- tional Assembly. "What was at stake in the first round and even more so in the second round is the regime and its institutions," De Gaulle told his Cabinet. De Gaulle referred to "the dom- inant element" in the opposition, apparently meaning the Commu- nist party. With Socialists and other leftists, the Communists agreed Tuesday night to 'run a single slate in most districts to oppose Gaullists. In last Sunday's first round, only 81 candidates won a major- ity, as required by law, in the Judge May Ask Disclosure Of Assassination Informant race for 487 assembly seats. Of these, 66 were Gaullists. In the runoff, the Gaullists hope to increase their present majority of 24 seats. The agreement worked out by the left is designed to cut or completely wipe out this ma- jority. Unified Party The Communists, the Federa- tion of the Democratic and Social- ist Left and the tiny, unified So- cialist party put into operation the electoral agreement, preserv- ing candidates deemed to be in the best position to topple a Gaullist. The agreement called for the best placed leftist to remain in the running while the others bowed out. In most cases this was decided by the number of first-round votes. But in about 15 cases the Communists withdrew in favor of other leftists, where, for local rea- sons, it was decided a non-Com- munist would have a better chance of winning over the Gaullists. NEW ORLEANS (W )-A state judge indicated yesterday Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison may have to produce his unnamed "confiden- tial informant" at a preliminary hearing Tuesday for Clay L. Shaw, who was booked on a charge of conspiracy in the Ken- nedy assassination. "It is my inclination now that the identity of the informant will have to be disclosed at the hear- ing," Criminal Dist. Judge Bern- ard Bagert said at the conclusion of a hearing in which he refused to dismiss the case for lack of jurisdiction. Bagert said he would rule Tues- day on the defense request that the informant be identified. The district attorney arrested Shaw March 1 and booked him on a murder conspiracy charge in connection with Garrison's five- month investigation of the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Shaw is free under $10,000 bond. s Roundup ance - payments to military per- sonnel in the war zone will end, with a yearly saving of $21 mil- lion. WASHINGTON - Dorothy El- sten, president of the National Federation of Republican Women, denied yesterday any indication of a purge of Barry Goldwater sup- porters in the selection of a 1968- 70 slate of officers for the 500,000- member organization. * * * WASHINGTON - Sen William Proxmire (D-Wis.), protested in a Senate speech yesterday that there have been artificial attempts to make it appear that President Johnson, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.), and Senate Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.), are far apart on Vietnamese war policy. In an application for a warrant to search Shaw's home, the dis- trict attorney alleged that Shaw, Lee Harvey Oswald, David W. Fer- Me and other persons met at Fer- rie's apartment here in September 1963 and agreed "to kill John F. Kennedy." Present at these secret meetings, said Garrison, was "a confidential informant who saw the conspira- tors and heard the plans." SAIGON (A)--Viet Cong of the Mekongddelta killed 6 Americans, wounded 25 and perhaps captured 1 yesterday in attacks on two camps of the U.S. 9th Infantry Division. The division is getting set to challenge the Viet Cong's 20-year grip in the populous delta rice bowl. The guerrillas, who prefer to op- erate by night, struck in each case before dawn. They faced away in the darkness under counterfire from American artillery and heli- copter gunships. Their losses,if any, were undetermined. The targets in these first ma- jor attacks against the U.S. new- comers were the Dong Tamp camp, on the My The River, 40 miles southwest of Saigon, and the Rach Kien outpost, 18 miles southwest of the capital. A U.S. spokesman Vid four Americans had been killed, two wounded and one missing A Viet- namese spokesman, without dis- closing precise figures, said cas- ualties among the 60 or so govern- ment soldiers in the battle were heavy. Briefing officers, in reporting on developments elsewhere, said con- tact had slackened between U.S. Marinesand mortar-backed North Vietnamese regulars below the de- militarized zone between North and South Vietnam. A spokesman said there was no significant con- tact yesterday in that sector, where Ho Chi Minh's forces may hope for another invasion attempt. A delayed account of clashes over the last three days, however, told of some previously unreport- ed Marine casualties-9 killed and 19 wounded. The account included a battle between a force of Ma- rines and perhaps 200 or more Communists who hit them Monday and maintained scattered contact over the next 24 hours. In other theaters of war: The U.S. cruiser Canberra and two de- stroyers, the Keppler and Inger- soll, hit at 17 objectives with their five-inch and eight-inch guns and, among other things, silenced a Communist shore battery on Hon En Island, off the southern pan- handle. Four American soldiers and 17 Viet Cong were killed in sporadic clashes Tuesday in jungles of Zone C, which flanks the Cambo- dian frontier northwest of Saigon. In Saigon, the U.S. Military Command disclosed it has as- assumed police authority over American civilians in Vietnam. Le- gal jurisdiction over these civil- ians, though under study in Saigon and Washington, remains with "appropriate U.S. authorities or Vietnamese officials." "U.S. forces police," says a key paragraph, "may apprehend and temporarily detain U.S. civilians when necessary to secure the cus- tody of an alleged offender or for the protection of human life or U.S. property, or when the indi- vidual's conductreflects unfavor- ably on the United States." of the local's members. Local 549, which has about 2,000 members, was on a wildcat strike for eight days last month. GM laid off almost 200,000 workers in 86 plants across the country, blaming a parts shortage result- ing from the strike. Mansfield is a stamping plant which makes parts for 90 per cent of GM automobiles . The UAW's announcement of an administratorship over Local 549 was an unusual action by the union's top command. Only in ex- traordinary cases does the inter- national take over control of a local union. Charles Ballard, director of the UAW Region 2B, was named ad- ministrator. Officers of Local 549, including Robert Hall, president, were close- ted with the executive board for three hours prior to the announce- ment. The board said in its statement that Hall and his fellow officers fully support the administrator- ship decision. The action came less than four hours after law enforcement of- ficers were called in to clear pick- ets from the plant-and less than two hours before a membership meeting of Local 549 was sched- uled to begin in Mansfield. Pickets were removed Tuesday after most production was halted at the plant. After pickets reap- peared yesterday, officers invoking a court order issued during the first walkout last month began clearing them from plant gates. No violence was reported. There was doubt about whether the UAW action would end the revolt. Local 549's membership meeting was scheduled to vote on whether to continue the walk- out. The previous strike, branded by GM and the UAW international as illegal, ended only after the local's officers were ordered to union headquarters in Detroit to explain their action. A similar order brought the local officers to Detroit again for Wednesday's confrontation with UAW chieftains, but Frank C. Petty, union shop committee chairman in Mansfield refused to obey the summons. Teamster SpokesmenComment On Hoffa's Acting Successor WASHINGTON (P) - Teamsters Vice President Frank Fitzsimmons slid into the chair of imprisoned union chief James R. Hoffa yes- terday to confront the nation's trucking industry across the bar- gaining table. "They'll find Fitzsimmons is no patsy," a Teamsters source said in predicting the contract talks for some 500,000 truckers would get quickly back on the road. The talks, with a March 31 strike deadline, begged down when Trucking Employers Inc. refused to continue bargaining until after Hoffa's status had been settled. Hoffa entered a prison call yes- terday to serve an eight-year term for jury tampering. Fitzsimmons, whom Hoffa had picked to run the union for him, got quickly down to business with industry,negotiators, declining to let photographers or newsmen wit- nes the resumption of talks. While Hoffa's absence left an obvious void in the union he ran for 10 colorful and controversial years, the union pointed out that Fitzsimmons was no newcomer to labor negotiations. "He settled the last big strike we had, and Hoffa sent him in to lo it," a spokesman said of a 1956 Canadian strike involving 8,500 Ontario teamsters. There were indications of some budding power maneuvers among some of the Teamsters' 12 other vice presidents, but most appeared content to wait and see how Fitz- simmons fared in the spotlight of one of the year's biggest labor negotiations. "There'll be some winds blow- ing," said one union source, re- ferring to political jockeying among other high Teamsters of- ficials in the vacuum left by Hoffa. Hoffa, departing for the Fed- eral Prison, in Lewisburg, Pa., Tuesday, said "I hope to return" to the Teamsters, meanwhile en- trusting his "life's dream" national trucking contract to Fitzsimmons. Did Not Resign Hoffa, in turning over his du- ties to Fitzsimmons, did not re- sign as Teamsters president and intends to resume office if he is freed before the next union elec- tions in 1971. Te union confirmed yeserday that Hoffa's $100,000 salary would be cut off while he was in prison, but the Teamster's executive Board voted to pay $4,000 a month to his wife, Jose- phine. 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