ee J : a 4 = ast ~ AN AUSTIN policeman ts wounded. by the sniper on the‘ man. crouches behind bushes. earried to a waiting ambu- 24th floor of -the University of : lance - after being critically - Texas tower. Another police- «ap 4 WASHINGTON’ “(AP) —. ‘The Wirtz, counselled against the | Clark said Monday's commit: US..-Senate labor committee |terms of the .Measure approved |tee voie was 10 to 6.

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Wirtz told the commitiee Ahat if Congress enaets. any. legisla- | tion it posed hy Senator Wayne Morse | (Dem. Ore.}). Under Morse's proposal *€ongress itself wonjd | order the strikers hack to work | for at least six months while ef- |

voted Monday —to—authorize [by the committee - last-Friday- President Johnson -to order |That bill would have authoriz striking airline. employees “back |Johnson to order a 60-day halt’ to work for up to six months— ito the strike and to renew -it 8 procedure not favorable by for two additional 60-day perl- the administrattion. ods it -he _wished.

The bill will. be taken up in. *

the Senate today. Senator Mike | Mansfield of Montana, ‘the Dem- | ‘T hio forts are made to negotiate a ocratic:-Jeader, has predicted rustees ip settlement,

extended debate ‘of any—meas- | ure designed to end the 25-day airlines strike, ‘

The committee bill, approved -after_a_two-hour_closed_.session, eee ‘s a modified version ‘of one given tentative endorsement | by Monday night that 138 hospitals fhe group. last Friday. eve been Pieced under trustee- proach. Labor Secretary W.)

Tts author, Senator Joseph S. Willard Wirtz held a conference’ Clark (Dem. Pa.) said it would | Nained as trustee was Yves Monday with the airlines’¢ chief

Is im sed ‘WILL PRESS HIS PLAN |Jpo |. Morsesaid he will press for * his bill in,the Senate despite ‘the (CP) Premier committee's ‘approval of — the!

Daniel Johnson announced here Clark measure. i While Cdngress-” welghed

choices in the legislative - ap-|

cropesst peer -at A ae) Pratte, who has. been acting as negotiator, William J. Curtin, etion..to” em e work stop-' ‘and arranged to meet today page for Aa full 180 days, or to S0Ve™Mment mediator in the con: with P. L. (Roy) Siemiller,

split up. the six months into ae between the employees of

brief cooling off: periods. 119 hospitals and the Quebec Hospital Association.

president of the AFL-CIO Inter- national -Association of Machin-

; ‘i : . : ists. GIVE JOHNSON DECISION The premier alan ansounced "4 spokesman for the_ five Inder its’ terms, ° Congress ian order-in-counell calling istrike-bound carriers scid. the

would declare the shutdown of |special session of the ipaista-| five major airlines “has dis- jture for next Thursday had rupted: interstate commerce but |been ‘passed during the cabinet

lines have offered: to give the strikers an immediate increase

" Enters Plea

should--be a= plan_ pro- |

re | Accident Toll 4 Stands At 84 ©

By THF CANADIAN PRESS Accidental deaths across Can- ada have risen to a total of 84 for the weekend—%6 ‘of them in} Alberta, Ontario and Manitoba | where municipalities celebrate | la three-day Civic, Holiday week: end. “A Canadian’ Presa survey from 6 p.m. Friday to 7:30 p.m. Monday, local times. showed 54° persons died in traffie acci- dents, 23. -were drowned, one died in a fire and six im misca:- laneous mishaps. | Ontario reported the most. fa- | talities with - 18 traffic deaths, eight drownings and one death} when a concrete block’ fell on a baby girl.

~~ For Speck

CHICAGO (AP) —,” Richard

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| mother, ;of guns toa sniper’s perch — in ‘

Campus Terror

Lasts 1%

-AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) + A sharpshooting ~ former /Monday_ killed his’ wife and

then hauled an arsenal

the University of Texas tower, | shot to death 12 other persons Land wounded 34. f

| "The carnage didn't end until

| police climbed: to a. balcony |; |above the sniper and ‘gunned:

him down, kiblli him with six |& pistol shots ~-blasts from a

shotgun.

Counting the sniper himself, the day's slaughter totaNed 15 persons. A 16th victim. was. the unborn baby of a. woman who was wounded. She was. in her eighth month of pregnancy.

The’ man was _ Indentified— = ‘Charles Joseph Whitman Lake Worth, Fla: architectural engineering stu- dent at the university and for- Mer. scoutmaster at: an Austin eburch.

His wife and: mother. were slain in their homes—the wife

stabbed and the mother shot— and police said the-found a note he had written indicating” why he had done it.

Speck stood with his head_down fand -his festures blank Monday ‘while his counsel entered pleas of no’ ,uilty to charges of mur- \dering eight student nurses in ae dormitory here July 14.

His -case.. was. assigned to.) Lae Herbert C. Paschen. The ‘judge set’ Aug: 18 for a hearing at which-a trial date will be de-- | termined.

Gerald W. Getty. chief public | defender for Cook County (Chi- |eago), who is serving as |Speck’s counsel, entered piléas jof not guilty to all eight indict- iments, | About 70 spectators were isearched before they were ad-

roamed around the walkway fear the top, ‘shooting at per- sons below with deadly- ac- curacy. (AP Wirephoto)

Whitman killed 12 persons and wounded 34 before being -gun- ned down “by police. Whitman’

‘THIS 18 THE “University of ’ admihistration = sniper Charies

PREMIERS’ CONFERENCE SS

Texas tower

Josephs

Claims Equalization Proposal.

HATED ._ MOTHER Police ‘said the nole, found in

“his mother’s apartment, said he

marme |

Hours

i

C. J. WHITMAN, ~ in her fifth-floor luxury aparh -

“ |etruck as they ‘walked along the ‘busy thoroughfare in front of the university-during the lunch- hour. Others were: hit .as. they

\had killed her because he hated ldashed for cover on the broad

|her. They’ said ‘another note

/pinned to her door said she was — in case a caller should

Tere Clee Aak=e aolee_in ie

wife’s apartment -with this" no- tation added at the end, police

both dead.” ‘

The campus terror lasted 14 hours.

Shot after shot from _ the sniper's rifles, shotgun: and

pistols. poured “from windows on all sides of the tower's 26th floor, keeping rescuers from the

Would Cripple Saskatchewan

'mitted to the chamber. So were. reporters. seit

The judge asked about By DAVID DAVIDSON Should be done about them,” he (of, New Brunswick in an ‘Inter. | 'Speck’s. financial’ ability to hire. TORONTO (CPi — Premier said, ___- s View. “Everybody is happy and a lawyer. Ross Thatcher -of Saskatchewan There will be further discus- more concrete ideas are being | | “He is’ not employed,” Getty | \says tax equalization propusais sions on the federal .grants for- advanced (than at previous isaid. ‘‘He does not have fun’s.” being considered by the federal mula, Mr. Robarts said, before meetings).”’

Pp, | government would a final plan is arrived at. “Going fine,” said Premier

State’s Attorney Daniel “seriously

Ward said doctors found Speck jwell enough to come_to court. fcr le tak Goad faibeaed Speck was taken to the city jail-|View Oe ‘hospital after his arrest July 17, federal tax-sharing formula that \Police said .he had slashed his Wil add Saskatchewan to the left arm and cut his right wrist (Provinces receiving no equaliza- jin a suicide attempt in a skid tion grants from. Ottawa. Al- ‘lroad flophouse. He was later berta, Ontario and British Co- transferred to Cook County. jail. Ear ele ane inces

Among the spectators at the “Our economy: ten jpleading were Joseph Matusek Gajjiy a wheat economy

He said the premiers during |Robert. Stanfield of Nova Scotia, their afterngon talks discussed put he did not elaborate. standard education require-| The talks began Monday but ments across the country and premier Daniel Johnson of Que- | “I think there is agreement pec, a key participant, and Pre- | standardization is desirable.” (mier Joseph Smaitlwood of New- “A proposal by the Alberta ifoyndiand and British Colum- government that — succession hia’s W. A. C. Bennett were not | duties in the province be abol- ithere.. e

ished also was considered ‘‘but : ; . .| Mr. ‘Voluiion returned to Que-| baal. |we- (Onterio). have: not: a post ibee City for a special cabinet |

even tion on. this yet. ting before the confe é

\eripple™ his province. The premier said in an_inter-

would shift to Johnson the de-| cision of whether and when to} order the men back to work. The move came after Labor- Secretary Willard Wirtz re- ported the outlook bleak for a negotiated settlement; but!

‘of 18 cents an hour ‘if they are |and his daughter, Betty Jo, fa- though we have diversified if

wae: 'forced back to their jobs under ither: and ‘sister of one of the recent years," Mr.

At this session of the legisia- | la bill sponsored by Senator /slain student nurses, ‘Patricia , said he told t emiers meet- dered a study of the Alberta |ture, Mr. Johnson said he in-'Wayne Morse (Dem. Ore.). (haattisak, __iing. at the ous legislature Succession duty. ‘proposals be- has said the talks of provincial jtended to» present certain labor -——— —leulldings: cause they “would serve to at- Chiefs are a waste of time and | 4 announced last week he)

legislation which could facili- | tate settlement of the. sttrike ;which has kept 32,500. non-med-

“If we were to experience two three successive crop fail-

Hope Fades For Passengers = tw “scsi

Thatcher.

treasury -

HAS ORDERED. STUDY r:.Robarts said’ he has or-

tract certain wealthy people’’ to

that prov There

ince. were. apparently

no

began. The Newfoundland \ caeental:

wouldn’t be coming to Toronto. |

The Social Credit party is cel-

victims scattered below.

Police crouched behind trees and buildings and answered twith volleys —from-—-rifles——and-+ |shotguns. Police Sgt. Donald Kidd said lofficers checked the Whitman

home, a duplex several . miles ifrom' the , after -Mrs. ‘Whitman's _father—_‘‘called _ me

\from Needvill and asked me to check.” eve is a small |ar

itown near Houston

idow and discovered the body of the wife. | The mother’s body was found

|

Associated: Press reporter Robert. Heard was among those wounded by a sniper

Kidd said he broke in a win-| .

mall which ‘surrounds. the base

ture 30 storeys tall in the cea tre of the campus. It is Austin’s tallest building and its upper storeys command a view of the entire city. —

The” sniper hegaa picking off targets below at f2.55 pn. CDT {(1:55 p.m. EDT) and was slain at 2:20 p.m. when four police- men entered the tower, through an underground tunnel, climbed ito an , observation deck just labove the 26th floor and shat

him as he swung his rifle te ‘ward them. Police—-Chief _Bob_ Miles said

\the “sniper noticed the officer ‘approaching him from aboye as ithey rounded a corner on the

lobservation platform. As the me raised his rifle, office®. Ramon Martinez shot him’ si#

ltimes with a .38-calibre revolves and officer Houston. McCoy

|

the was

Miles said sniper

of armed with-. three high-calibre one of them euitoped

lrifles, |(Continued on page 3, col

‘Wounded Reporter Gives Story From Hospital Bed

ment? about two ‘blocks from - thé campus.

DASHED FOR COVER : ‘Some . of the victims’ were.

of the tower. - The tower, a Texas: landmark, is ~a& slender, four-sided struce ~

lfired one blast with. a shotgun. ,

yild a press conference.

stopped short of advocating en- | |ical employees of the National actment of airike: stopping leg- Federation of Serviees off ~— _ [jobs si since ce July ‘15.

2

Astronauts Tell Of Epic Voyage

HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) THe scribed a series of motion pic- Jemini’ 10 spacecraft ran ‘low|tures of the rendezvous and m fuel because it had-to make docking.

1 large plane change to rendez-| At. one point

in the movles,

‘ous with an Agena target satel- | the 26-foot Agena sicareined

Ite. command pilot John W jin. .a flash of sunlight. foung. reported Monday. _. | “That's a real problem “We had to use the brute-|space,’’ Young said. erce method to overcome ere: It causes arge out-of-plane. error,’ Young |target to disappear. You “That \to apply a little back thrust and | akes quite a lot of fuel.” ' ‘hope it reappears. With a plane, | Space-walker Michael Collins|you'd just zip atound the target | Hsclosed that troubles manoeu-|to get away from the sun and/| ring in space forced him to|pick it up again. But a space- | nake three attempts before he | craft doesn't have that much! {nally retrieved an experiment |fuel.”’ ackage from the side of an- | In discussing the firing of the

in |

the |

ther Agena with which’ Gem- |Agena’s main engine, which | ti 10 “made rendezvous, “gent Gemini 10 to a record The plane, change’ was re-jaltitude of 476 tmiles for a uired to shift Gemini 10) ‘manned vehicle, Young said: | lightly to the th to put it} ="Boy, it was really some- t the same orbita th as the} iting. For 11 seconds (as the

gena, which had beet orbiied |16,000-pound-thrust engine. fired) 1 minutes before the two-man|we got a tremendous thrill.” gena July. 18. SEES. FUTURE ADVANCE U.S. Navy Cmdr, Young and: Young said_use—of_the Agena: ir—Force Maj. Collins caught demonstrated that another’ nd docked with the Agena after |satellite can be used as a} six-hour chase: But they used tanker and a supplementary. en- vice as much fuel as: planned. |gine for manned spaceships,

& a result, ground controllet's | During the flight Collins : en- ‘arranged the flight plan .con-|gaged:in two work periods out- derably, utilizing the engine of |side the: spacecraft — one a ve Agena to make several of ‘stand-up’? manoeuvre, the .sec- ie_Manoeuvres. The fuel. short- onda _full- scale_walk.overto ze also caused Collins to. cut ian “hid Agena left in space by

orf a: Space walk on the’ seé-lthe —Gemini &- ‘astronauts in ‘td day of the. three-day flight. March. » “The machine performed The first wae cut short by iagnificently,"" Young said injchemical fumes that invaded iscussing the Agena as he de-'the space suits of both men. a

{Hope faded Monday:

“It's called | §

have |

On English Excursion Boat

FALMOUTH, England night-

(AP) leursion boat’ which vanished in fora storm off the, wild Cornish ie persons aboard a British ex- ‘smugglers’ coast."

APPOINTED The International

Committee for the Eighth -Bti- tish Empire and: Common-

Technical

of Canada from 1960-64,

®

*\the holiday-makers —

e|due” back about 7 p.m.

Seven children. were among all be- ilieved British—who set out. Sun- day morning in the 45-foot mo- | tor cruiser Darlwin on a 40- mile coastal voyage. They were

- A séarch over a med up bay loom

Elmile are Monday turned up only

a 14-foot skiff and ~a rubber floor mat: The white dinghy, | containing clothing and a life | | jacket, was jdentified as one the Darlwin was . towing.

The dinghy was found sail the Eddystone Rocks, a danger- ous reef in the English Chan-} nel 35 miles. east of Falmouth. The Darlwin, a. twin-engined diesel, was iftowing a 14-foot skiff and: carried! ‘a fibreglass dinghy and a 14-foot wooden dinghy. we ‘

WINDS\, SPRANG UP

The ‘coast guard —-reported- winds up to 50 miles an hour after the excursion cruiser left Fowey about 4 p.m. Sunday. for ithe...return ‘ trip to Falmouth. The Darlwin was. last. sighted

: laf the 43 aboard...

‘north of Hanoi and the other 65

swords: drawn at -the

meeting in the Ontario cabinet in British Columbia

chambers ‘which resume today. Bennett . couldn't get “The talks are the best ever,’ ‘the meetings.

would be strangled. Our govern- ment will never agree to such an arrangement."

Mr. Thatcher “ania: *T have ! . : Q I i

seen the federal proposals I ‘Said Premier Louis _Robichaud ‘(Continued on. page 3, col, 2) |

know what; they are and they, £

are absolutely unacceptable.” : e ‘ ° ‘ Loss of. equalization” grants - :

would cost Saskatchewan $35,- | erian on: ro }

000,000 a year, Mr. Thatcher 5

said. S Premier -John Rebarts of On-

itario, chairman’ for the closed

oa that began earlier “in the said at an evening press conference “we have a specific jinterest’’ ‘in them. SEES DIFFICULTIES “But (it's. very. difficult [ae province to say

ls In New Hands

By’ NORMAN HARTLEY But he appeared to sound the LAGOS. (Reuters)—A young ‘death knell of Aguiyi-lronsi’s lieutenant -. colonel announced eicet te convert Niveria: Koel 4

Monday that he has taken over | " Sacre , ; land of regions and tribes lato, | control of Nigeria after mutiny la unified country.

in the army and the kidnapping |

for what

a

fi of the country’s head of state. BASE NOT THERE Star ig ters The new leader is. Lt-Col., “Putting all considerations to | Yakubu Gowon, 31, the army the test—political, economic as,

closed ebrating its 14th year in powe? | and Mr. } away si

in the University of Texas tower Monday. He was shot in the left shoulder.. Here is his personal account, dic- | tated from his: hospital bed. ©

By ROBERT HEARD |

AUSTIN, Tex- (AP) Six imches. more to the right and I would be dead® with the rest of them.

I didn’t get it as bad as some lof the. others. The bullet went in here and there's a big hole in my back where-‘t came out.

That guy must be an incred- ible shot. We got.the tip in the (AP) office. there was a sniper in the tower and I was told to lfush out to the campus. I re- ““yinvember Jack (AP. staffer Jack

-|Keever) yelled as \I. went out Re? : ae a ithe door: “Be careftil, don't get ROBERT HEARD 'shot.” i

When we got. to the university The two patrolmen ran across

Are Downed - ee faces he ane te biter 7 wot ere i of Ue campus, we went to the north the open area safely, and.I said. y Moslem north as are the sol- Poked." a ‘sid = a Y side of the tower where we |to ny oe Noe gunn, From AP-Reuters diers who’ started the uprising! «1 therefore feel. we . should \COU!d hear a popping noise. wa ct ee * Naaied SAIGON (CP) — Ground fire Friday. and see if we can hel ston 't e, This other reporter ‘(Ernest he gy i sends belo ae took downed two US F-104 Star- . With the dissidents — appar- review our Nacioaat tending! Stromberger, Dallas Times ai e seconds befor fighters during“raids over North ently now — unopposed—holding country from drifting awey inte Herald) and 1 saw two. highway |: : Viet Nam Monday in which the gateway to this . capital, | utter destruction.” jpatrolmen, putting their rifles; I was almost across the open American pilots encountered 14 Gowon told Nigeria's 35,000,000 H aad ; | together They started to run to-|space when something hit me surface-to-air. missiles. the U.S.| people by radio that he is shoul- (ai: ee es ochitile to ithe [ward the tower and we followed | whirled me around and knocke command announced today. dering responsibility. with -the possible release m4 sitical, is close behind, ae me. on the hot pavement Both pilots ‘were missing. ~ consent of a majority of the Su-/( 0. i ) PIs: | HAD NO PROTECTION That guy must be an incr One plane .was hit 40 miles preme Milftary Council which Mase ‘Setiinkva tocot aisid Then we a agi a ible shot. Six inches more to the

has governed the country. since

jeonventiona) anti-aircraft fre. ‘country: ite national disaster, ganized by Ibo officers.

‘

space ‘about right and he would hase hit my

there was no protection. There

| ‘wealth Games to be staged in [DY fishermen four miles out ot ditwent Or the Norkte revolt by . junior. officers in Civilian politicians from govera- heart.. Kingston, Jamaica, ear Aug. |Fowey. * iaanaene capital. The Star- Jam -__|ment the millions of Hausas in |would_be this.fuhny: nolse every | yg. “leg: aem—weis—nuimib—buit—t 4 to-}4-has- approved the ap- b-Planex and fishermen gonters were the first’ of thie 4 Atl ‘is quiet," the Wieutenant= ithe “huge “northern territory Of now and then like a bullet whin- iremember feeling how hot the pointment of six Canadians 4s |searched the tiny coves along ype. ‘of craft lost over North colonel..said. ©. \Nigeria, have feared domina- jing off: in the . distance. | pavement: felt. It seems like technical officials. for ‘the |the Cornish coast. where. smug- viet Nam in nearly. a year. The FATE UNKNOWN re by the ple of the south, just a few mintites until a Games. -Included among the glers of. the 18the and 19th cen- Josses brought to. 318.the,num- He confirmed that the head C*fcially the powerful Ibos: INSIDE TODAY: - Hench: OL Hen Pan TAU cand Canadian officials is David’ M. :|turies brought ashore theif per of US. planes announced of state, rine - Gen. Johnson | “finder the former federal sys- S dragged me back to the shade’ Boswell, ABOVE, director of (contraband—in case the _ blue- lost over Nowth: Viet Nain: Aguiyi-Ironsi, had been kid- |¢ with the country divided, Island news ......5....605 2 _|atran the f0nk ota car physical ‘education for Prince | hulled Dariwin had sought 4 US spokesman said all ex- napped. by a saltionia’ during \Wto regions, each with: a -gov- Sumtnerside ........;...+. 3 i sini . ‘at Edward Island. Mr. Boswell_is pete from the _storrh. mee. of the 14 missiles were a visit to the town of Ibadan. \ernment,. the north was able ( Deaths ......s:.ccceeeee 3 | sitonished that he. utd. th ‘* an active member h the in sighted in hed Hanoi- Haiphong His whereabouts and fate are)Wield -political influence, and. Editorials ..... seceeeM whe . ny e could hit" Canadijan_.Olympic.and...British-\ “The: ship's _ Joss_.would_bé. the Latea- Rollo ing usual _practic®, unknown, he added. protect its distinctive culture Kings, Queens, city isbees eas hehe runniit. : Empire _ and »;Commonwealth ‘summer's second excursion boat \he -did_ not disclose whether any. Gowon ‘praised Aguii-Ironsi @nd_ religion. +—“WaEMeNE oe 8 Pretty —soan* the ambit Games AssaBiation of Canada |tragedy in_ Britain. of the missiles brought down, for his. efforts to, reconstruct the Former federal Prime Minis- gport ...... eens oe 9 lance came and took. me to the and served as president of the | Nine days before, a motor the Starfighters, Instead. he country after the “sad and unc ter Sir Abubakar Tafawa Ba- Cem ea ; 11 hospital. Prince Edward Island branch launch capsized in a swift flow- used only the term ground fire fortunate’ January revolt which lewa was ‘a Hausa and he Was Classified: 12, 1% There I was, working on 8 of the Amateur Athletic Union ing river in Wales, drowning 15 —-which could be missiles or Gowon said -had plunged. the killed in the January revolt or- — Finance, marketa 13 Teal ‘good. story and . now took

at me--I can’t type.

re