THE Summer Daily I-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, May 9, 1973 Free Issue Vol. LXXXIII, No. Sixteen Pages S nit Watergate unit to beg in open hear s Ellsberg judge seeks investigation Fromv Wir Se sriice Repori V\ASHIIN(TON -The Watergate scandal, an event which has shaken the Presidency of Richard Nixon to its very roots, takes on a new pablic phase a week from to morrow, when the special Senate com- -sittee investigatiag the affair begiis hear ings. Former Presidential counsel John [e)an will be the first witness subpoenaed )y the committee. Dean has reportedly linked President Nixon to the attempts to cofer up White house involvement in tlh wire- tapping schente at Democratic Na' l Headquarters. SENATOR SAM ERVIN (I) the committee chairman, indicated erda, that he will not decide whether - -It thi President to testify "until some reason t call the President is known to exist-. Ervin added that "So far, I have no in- formation that the President as per- sonally involved." Nixon has denied knowing anything about either the bugging or a cover-up. Meanwhile; in a rather unusual evert, Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin charged that the press is prac- ticing "McCarthyism at its worst" by printing "sensational" stories 1i-klng Pres- ident Nixon to Watergate. IN A RARE defense of Nixon, Proxmire complained the news m e d i a is being "grossly unfair" to the President in its hot pursuit of the story. "When former White House Counsel John Dean is reported throughout this cointry to have privately told grand-jury investigators that the President was di- rectly involved in a Watergate cover-up, President Nixon is being tried, sentenced and executed by rumor and allegation," Proxmire said in a Senate speech. John Dean III "As the senator who succeeded Joe McCarthv in the United States Senate I find this kind of persecution and condem- nation without trial McCarthyism at its worst. THREE THOUSAND miles away, at the Los Angeles trial of Pentagon Papers de- fendants Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo, U.S. District Court Judge Matt Byrne dismissed the jury for the re- mainder of the week and ordered a full scale hearing into Watergate links in the case. See WATERGATE, Page 10 Photo by SUMNER W. FOWLER CAROLYN KING looks the part of an ace Little League outfielder. But Little League National Headquarters threatened to revoke the Ypsilanti charter if she wasn't dropped from the lineup. Little League cuts girl player By LAURA BERMAN and Wire Service Reports Tewlve-year-old Carolyn King, Ypsilanti Little League ace out- fielder, hasbeen relieved of her uniform and banished from the playing field because she is a girl. According to Little League Reg- ulation 4, Paragraph 1, "girls are not eligible." CAROLYN WAS ousted from the lineup during a special Mon- day night session of the local league's board of directors. Yes- terday was the league's opening ballgame. Originally, the Ypsi chapter had vowed to buck national regulations to keep Carolyn on the team, but a warning from Little League National Head- quarters changed their minds. The n a t i o n a l organization} threatened to revoke the Ypsi charter and player insurance and impound their treasury if-Carolyn remained in uniform. "IF SHE'S IN the lineup, on the field or in the dugout in a uni- form as a member of the team, they will be in violation of Regu- lation 4, Paragraph 1," said S. B. Stanton, the district adminis- trator in Jackson. Stanton said Carolyn "seems to be capable of holding her own with the boys, but that is not the point. "If it happens here the whole country will be on the bandwagon and it will be against the whole purpose of the program," he said. ROBERT STIRRAT, chief pub- lic relations officer for the League's national headquarters, defended the league policy. "All research both medical and physiological indicates that boys shrouldn't compete with girls." he said. "Girls reflexes are much slow- er and their bones are more vulnerable to being broken," he added. "She's very good, that's the crime of the whole thing," said Bob Taylor, vice president of the Ypsilanti chapter, "She puts most 11- and 12-years-olds to shame" "IT IS THE league's intention to fight this legally in the courts," he said. "We had to do without Carolyn on the team or it would have not only meant loss of the charter, but insurance programs, -sponsors and equipment as well." Carolyn, who tried out for Little League "just for fun," hopes her case will result in more girls on league teams. "If I could play this year, may- be next year they'll let more girls do it," she said. "I hope next year they change ther_-xinds."