Tuesday,. October. 16; -1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY .' Page Three TuesayOctber16, 973THEMICIGANDAIY Pge hre Fire destroys Mass. city, CHELSEA, Mass. () - More than. 1,000 homeless persons sought food, something to wear and a place to stay yesterday at National Guardsmen patrolled the smoldering ruins of 18 blocks of this industrial satellite of Bos- ton. An estimated,20 per cent of the city of 32,000 were evacuated from their homes in the Sunday night inferno that affected an.es- timated 900 buildings. IN SOME BLOCKS not a build- ,000 homeless ing was left standing; except for jagged pieces *of wall. Fueled by high, gusting winds, the fire leveled the vast area of tenements, warehouses and fac- tories, turning the rundown sec- tion that sits across the Mystic River from Boston into waste- land. Mayor Philip Spelman said 100 homes and apartments were de- stroyed and others were badly damaged. He said more than 1,000 persons in 200 familiest re homeless. Fire officials estimat- Johnson suspected wiretap1ing-Douoias ed that 280 living structures and another 520 industrial or commer- cial buildings were destroyed or damaged. THE RED CROSS appealed for listings of vacant homes and Gov. Francis W. Sargent asked Presi- dent Nixon. to declare the city a disaster area. More than 2,000 firemen from 85 communities, some as far away as New Hampshire and Rhode Island, fought the blaze at its height. Twenty firemen were treated for smoke inhalation; tfour were hospitalized. The fire, according to Fire C h i e f Fothergill, apparently started in a three-story wooden warehotse. He said he had no evidence of arson and the exact cause was not known. IN FEBRUARY, the National Board of Fire Underwriters de- scribed Chelsea as having "the highest potential for conflagra- tion of any city in the United States" because of some 138 mil- lion gallons of gasoline and other flammable liquids stored above ground. Those were not involved Sunday. 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VIOLENCE IN BANGKOK: hai st uents riot; force military By TREVOR GOODCHILD BANGKOK, (Reuter) - Form- er Prime Minister Thanom Kit- tikachorn, whose military-led government resigned Sunday in the face of fierce student riots in Bangkok, has left Thailand for the sake of order in the country, it was announced yesterday. A brief statement broadcast by -Radio Thailand said he left with former Deputy Prime Minister Praphas Charusathien and Col. Narong Kittikachorn, Field Mar- shal Thanom's son. THEIR DEPARTURE FOL- LOWED two days of violent stu- dent demonstrations and bloody streets clashes in which many were killed and h udreds injured. Rioters set fire Jo government buildings and today gutted the metropolitan police headquarters here. Tens of thousands of student defying t h e security forces still swarmed in the streets- of the capital tonight as the an- nouncement of Marshal Thanoms govt. t departure came. HIS DESTINATION a b r o a d was not immediately known, but one western diplomatic source said later the three men had left for Japan. Field Marshal Thanom, Prime Minister since 1969, led the mili- tary in 1971 in abolishing the con- stitution in favor of rule by de- cree. A cornerstone of the students demands is a return to democra- tic rule in the country. K I N G B H U M I B O L ADULYADEJ last night named Sanya Thammasak, a 66-year- old university rector, to succeed, Marshal Thanom as premier. But demonstrating students re- fused to leave the streets while Thanom remained supreme com- mander of the armed forces. The announcement of the form- er Premiers departure came shortly after the Supreme Mili- tary Command warned rioters against further violence and o resign threatened strict enforcement to- night of a seven - hour curfew ignored by demonstrators last night. DIPLOMATIC S O U R C E S said the students had issued a memordandum to Sanya demand- ing that Marshal Thanom, who still remains supreme command- er of the armed forces and thus fields powerful control over gov- ernment, be stripped of all mili- tary powers. With government offices order- ed to be closed for three days and the city in confusion, no ex- act figure of the casualties in the rioting was available today. One medical source said not more than 100 died in yesterdays street fighting, but press reports spoke of between 300 and 400 killed. Demonstrators later drifted away from the central govern- ment area in large numbers at the request of their leaders who drove around with megaphones saying that troops were expected to arrive at any minute. By AP and Reuter WASHINGTON - The late President Lyndon Johnson con- fided during his White House tenure that he believed "that even his phone was tapped," Su- preme Court Justice William Douglas said yesterday. Douglas, in an attack on what he called the "dirty business" of wiretapping, also saidshe was "morally certain" that the Su- preme Court's conference room was bugged. The most secret deliberations of the justices on pending cases take place in the room. ?DOUGLAS' ASSERTION came in a dissent to a court action in a wiretap-related case. "We who live in the District of Columbia know that electronic surveillance is commonplace," wrote Douglas. "I am indeed morally certain that the conference room has been 'bugged' and President Johnson during his term in the White House asserted to me that even his phone was tapped." BY THE GOVERNMENT'S own statistics, Douglas said, more than 500,000 conversations a year are overheard by govern- ment agents acting on court-is- sued warrants. Douglas gave no additional in- formation and his office respond- ed to inquiries by saying there would be no more comment. Other members of the court, at least initially, gave no indication they shared Douglas' fears about the confrence room. IN OTHER ACTIONS yester- day, the court agreed to decide: -Whether the U. S. Circuit Court in New York erred in a ruling on the scope of class ac- tion suits, the vehicle by which individuals may sue on behalf of all in similar circumstances. At stake, claim critics of the lower court ruling, is the future of such mass legal actions for consumer and environmental protection; -Whether Montgomery, Ala., may permit segregated private schools to use public stadiums under a policy that a group of blacks from the city says under- mines school desegregation; -Whether Missouri goes too far in protecting separation of church and state when it denies the services of federally financed teachers to poor children in non- public schools; and, -Whether local governments may exercise their police power to ban communal living by unre- lated persons in the interest of promoting the traditional family through zoning laws. DOUGLAS' IRE on wiretapping was raised by the court's refus- al to grant bail pending appeal in a federal contempt of court case in which Margaret Heustche re- fused to answer questions from a grand jury about a series of break-ins in 1972 at draft board offices in Evanston, Ill. IHE NEW PHOENIXEP Om T. 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