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V1 9 rlr ay "nv THE HARTFORD COURANT: Monday, July 22, 1 968 17 On Albany Avenue i Teen Gang Throws Firebombs nectlon with the disruptions which started about 9:30 p.m. No arrests had been made early Vermont's Gov. Hoff Asks HHH to Resign CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) were to choose Sen. Kennedy as Gov. Philip H.

Hoff of Vermont a running male that this would disclosed Sunday that he asked be a dramatic influence," Curtis Hubert H. Humphrey to resign as vice president on grounds. that "you can't be your own man" in the Democratic presi-1 dentlal campaign while serving in the administration, Hoff said Humphrey told him he could not do so. "I didnf really expect him to," the Vermont governor said. 'I tried to persuade Humphrey to resign." Hoff said.

"I said 'your greatest problem is that you can't be your own man, can't establish your own identity He said he made the proposal during a meeting with the vice president in Washington last Monday. Gov. Kenneth M. Curtis of Maine also was present. Curtis said he didn't comment on the Hoff proposal because Humphrey answered the Vermont governor at length.

Ensemble Rehearses Telemann, James Hook, J. S. Bach and M. Corrette. As an added feature, the ensemble will make the debut performance of a suite by Neil H.

Olson of Wethersfield, a June graduate of Trinity. Ensemble members, left to right: Deborah Stighano, Roderic Kebabian, William Wharton, and Nell Olson. The Summer Instrumental and Vocal Ensemble is rehearing for a performance of 18th century European music Tuesday at 7 p.m. Baird Hastings, Hartt College faculty member, will direct the program in Gar-many Hall; Trinity College Austin Arts Center. The program will include the music of Hoff, here for the National Henry Solomon, of 27 Center Governors Conference, said was robbed of $70 after be-Humphrey had told him that he ng stmrw hv man who asked GOP Convention Preparations Emphasize Extensive Security cided to meet south of the Mason-Dixon line for the first time could not leave the job to which he was elected and that if he did, it would alienate conserva tive Democrats now supporting his bid for the presidential nomination.

"He gave the argument that the people elected him and he had a contract with the people," Hoff Said The two New Englanders were the only Democratic governors who had publicly endorsed the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy for the white House nomination. Curtis said Humphrey invited them to Washington to talk politics. Both governors said they are now uncommitted in the presi dential race although Curtis said he leans toward Humphrey, at a neighbor's house about mid-Hoff said Humphrey himself night Saturday when he heard is frustrated at his inability to 'a shot and felt something strike build enthusiastic support in the his neck.

Democratic party. He said he Johnson and his neighbors had argued that the vice presi-i heard two more shots and saw js being built around a 14-acre area surrounding the convention complex. No one will get inside the fence without credentials and Knowles said, "We believe our credentials will be almost forgery-proof." "We are taking extraordinary steps," he added, "to keep them out of unauthorized hands." The Hilton Plaza and Ameri can hotels, respective headquarters for Richard M. Nixon and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, took a hard new look after the Kenne dy slaying at security arrange ments which already were the toughest the hotels had ever planned.

The top three floors of the Hil ton Plaza will be sealed off. Ele vators will be rigged and corridor's and entrances guarded so that Nixon will be able to move about in complete privacy. Sim ilar precautions will be taken at the Americana. Miami Beach police will eo oh 12-hour shifts, effecting a 50 per cent increase manpower. Ex tra.

police will be brought in from neighboring cities, the sheriff's department and the Florida Highway Patrol. All units will be under radio control from a police operations center adjoining' the Convention Hall Top police officers attended riot-control classes, discussed son must be made on the out-problems with police in cities where street violence has oc curred, and drilled the ranks in preventive measures. Beefing up the local forces will be some 20 Secret Service agents assigned to each of the announced candidates, including Harold Stassen. Security inside the hall will be handled by the party, which has retained Jim McDonald, direc tor of the Andy Frain Service in Florida, to furnish ushers, guides, and ticket-takers. Mc Donnell won't talk about his se curity plans because, he said.

"if you do that, you haven't got any. security." Construction of the Conven tion Hall was launched immediately after the Republicans de said. The Maine Governor said Hoff made his resignation proposal early in their talk with Hum- phrey, and the vice president spent a half hour replying to that and discussing the political situation. "It was completely dismissed by the time I got to my briefing," Curtis said. The two New England governors and a third Democratic governor who asked not to ba identified agreed that Humphrey's candidancy is not catch- ing the public imagination.

Hoff said he found a general uneasiness in the party over Humphrey's personal position and his ties with administration policies, particularly regarding the Vietnam War. F619Ped July 21 NM Man Robbed him for a cigarette On Centex Street at 2:15 a.m. Sunday. Man Struck by Car While Riding Bicycle Ruben Rodriguez. 21, of 108 Hampton was struck by a in8 8 r.cuaiiigiuu diiu iinmyiiHi sucs aooui mianigni Aaiuraay.

Police said Rodriguez had no lights or reflectors on the bicycle. He was treated at Mt. Sinai Hospital for minor bruises and released. Man Playing Cards Receives Gun Wound Henry J. Johnson, 71, of 17 Salisbury was playing cards a group of teen-agers running from the area.

No arrests were made. Johnson was treated at Mt. Sinai Hospital for a pellet gun wound and released. Youth Robbed of $13 By 3 in Bushnell Park: Peter G. Vogel, 14, of Glou-chester, Mass, was robbed of $13 by three youths Sunday afternoon while he was playing In Bushnell Park in front of the Hartford Hilton.

He is in Hartford with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gerard F. Vogel, who are attending the Stanley Home Products Convention at the Hilton. .1 Peter had saved the money for the trip to Hartford.

Society Names Internists Two Hartford internists, Robert Dobrow and Benjamin Levy, have been elected to membership In the American Society of Internal Medicine. The society is a federation of societies in every state except Alaska, including Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Member ship is more than 10,000 physi cians who specialize in internal medicine. Members of the society, in ad dition to their basic medical ed ucation and Internship, have undergone three years of residency and two years or practice. WifiStabbed" After Argument A domesstlc argument ended in the stabbing of a woman Sunday afternoon and the arrest of her husband.

Mariana Ramirez Torres, 10 Belden was reported insat-isfactory condition at McCook Hospital with a stab wound in the left arm and a fractured right arm. Her husband, Victor Ramirez Torres, 28, was charged with aggravated assault with a knife and resisting arest. Ha is being held on $3,000 bond for appearance In Circuit Court 14 today. Police said Torres had asked his wife to go to California with him. When she refused, he allegedly stabbed her with a kitchen knife, then grabbed a chair, hitting her on the right arm with it.

An- LAND T0UM A gang of teen-agers threw three firebombs, smashed store front windows, and tossed hot- ties in we street on Albany Ave-' rue Sunday night Police picked up a suspect in one cf the firebombings and were quetioning others in con- Girl Troubles Continue for The Beatles LONDON (UPI)-A Japanese artist broke a month of silence ori her love affair with John Lennon Sunday. He is a member of the Beatle group and already has. a wife. She is also married. Another Beatle, Paul McCartney, was having his own "girl" troubles.

His fiancee said the cotiple was all washed up. But the big newsmaker on the Beatle scene Sunday was Yoko Ono, a 34-year-old avant garde artist who said of her year-old romance with Lennon: "We want to share it with The observer published an interview with Miss Ono. "There wasn't any point in just making love secretly," Miss Ono told the Sunday newspaper. "We had to make a film together which had the same vibrations as making love. By being together, John and I are making good vibrations which we hope other people will catch." Miss Ono, whose name means "ocean child" in Japanese, makes movies from time to time.

One showed the back sides of 365 naied people. Another she plans will be a Couple of reels of Lennon, doing nothing more than smiling. Lennon, 27, said his six-year marriage to his wife Cynthia was all but legally over. Miss Ono is married to Tony Cox, an American movie producer. Meanwhile, in the other saga of Beatle love affairs, Anne Asher, a 22-year-old actress, blamed Paul McCartney, 26, for the breakup in their four-year romance.

"It's finished," Miss Asher told an interviewer. "I don't want to talk about it." McCartney also played a silent act. Tent Falls; Trapping Spectators MILWAUKEE, WiS; (AP) -A huge show tent containing an estimated 2,500 persons collapsed during a windstorm Sunday trapping scores of spectators at a youth musical program. Police said they had early report of nine persons injured, and that many persons were still trapped or entangled in ropes and canvas more than 30 minutes after winds toppled the tent. The winds were caused by a line of showers sweeping across th city.

The tent, covering area larger than a football field at a Lake Michigan shorefront park, was set up as part of the city's Sum- merfest '68 festival, an affair keyed to youth activities. The tent collapsed shortly after the start of a program featur ing a musical group, the New Colony Six. Police said most of the spectators were teen-agers. A witness said winds seemed to lift the tent from its poles. The canvas ripped, and poles collapsed into the crowd.

2 Youths Held In Auto Theft After Chase Policemen spotted a stolen car and chased its occupants by car and on foot until they arrested two youths Sunday Jasper Rose, 16, of 189 Chand ler and Shannon King, 18, Of 10 Admiral Street, were charted with theft of a motor ve hicle. In addition, King, who police said was the driver, was charged with operating a motor vehicle without a license, recK- less driving and evading responsibility. Both are being held for Circuit Court 14 today. Policeman John Maudsley said he spotted the car which was reported stolen Friday on Albany Avenue at 11:05 a.m. He followed the auto into the Merit Service Station, 430 Albany Ave.

The youths saw they; were being followed and sped out toward Brook Street, police The youths then struck a car at the corner of Brook and Winter streets and continued to a cemetery at the end of Brook where they fled on foot. Maudsley said he nabbed King hehind 195 Brook St. while Policeman Leo LePage caught Rose at the corner of Garden Street and Mahl Avenue. at into the street spreading glass for about 50 yards along Albany Avenue. A firebomb was thrown and started a fire in the gutter.

Police could not estimate the size of the group. A policeman said when he arrived at the scene he saw several teen-agers running south on Sterling Street. About 10:30 a firebomb was thrown through the window of Stop and Shop at Albany Avenue and Garden Street. The son drink bottle, filled with kero sene according to a fire official at the scene, smashed but failed to burn. Minutes later, a firebomb was thrown into the Honiberg Medi cal and Surgical Supply Co.

where the windows had been smashed earlier. It ignited but was immediately put out. Another firebomb was thrown into an unregistered car in the lot of an abandoned service sta tion adjacent to the surgical supply company. The interior of the car was heavily damaged. Firemen at the scene said these firebombs were made with gasoline in soft drink bottles.

Police picked up the suspects shortly after the firebombings occurred. Police Outrun Man With Rifle Two policemen outran a man they said was carrying a rifle Sunday morning at Main and Russell streets. They arrested Johnnie Saun ders, 22, of 87 Wooster shortly after daylight on charge of carrying a dangerous weapon. He is being held for Circuit Court 14 appearance to day: Fire Co. 2 had called police to investigated gunshots in the Main and Belden Street area, Police said Saunders and an un-identified friend had been crouched in a hedge near there.

Poliomen Robert Clark and Angel Diaz said they saw the pair running from Duffy's Res taurant, 1619 Maul to Rus sell Street. They caught Saun ders when they reportedly saw him try to drop the rifle into dumpster at Main and Russell. The other man escaped. Man Stabbed In Argument A cooperative tire changing project Sunday morning led to an argument, the stabbing of a man and the arrest of another. The victim, Clotilde Torres, of 11 Goodwin.St., yras stabbed in the neck and was reported in satisfactory condition at St, Francis Hospital.

Police arrested Domingo Me-lendez, 38, of 15 Goodwin St. on charges of aggravated assault with a knife in connection with the incident. He is being held for appearance today in Circuit Court 14. Torres and Melendez were changing a flat tire on Torres' car according to policeman Fred Lewis, when an argument began. Police said Melendez pulled a knife, chased and caught the victim and stabbed him.

City Briefs Mrs. Gerald S. Greene of Hartford joined 500 arts leaders from North America earlier this month in San Francisco at. a conference of the Associated Councils of the Arts in Francisco. She is a member of the "ACA board of directors, ACA is a private, non-profit Or ganization for encouraging the arts.

Wayne M. Deep, 18, son of Mrs. Jennlet T. Deep, 68 Lebanon was promoted to U.S Army specialist four on July 5 near Aschaffenburg, Germany, where he is serving with the 3rd Infantry Division. Deep attend ed Weaver High School and en tered the Army in December, 1966.

Pvt. Paul Czepiel, 20, son of Mrs. Mary R. Cruickshank, 924 Wethersfield has com pleted a 12-week communica tions center specialist course at the U.S. Army Southeastern Signal School, Ft.

Gordon, Ga. He was trained to operate teletype sets and other communications equipment. His father, Edward Czepiel, lives on Collins Road, East Hartford. Woman 'Critical' After Accident A 71-yar-old East Hartford woman was in critical condition at St. Francis Hospital following ah auto-pedestrian accident at 68 Brewer' St.

in East Hartford. Mrs. Florence Gonzales Of 87 Mel Rd. was struck by an auto driven by Derek A. Grant, 24, Of 61 Glen East Hartford.

Police were still investigating the accident, which occurred at 9:04 p.m. early this morning. Grant was not arrested. this morning and police with held the names of the suspects pending the outcome of investigation by the detective bureau. Capt.

Robert Merrick, who headed the task force policemen the scene, said police had forebodings of trouble when black man was arrested for a motor vehicle violation about 8:30 p.m. He said a large and hostile crowd gathered as the police man was making the arrest. Other policemen arrived at the scene. The crowd dispersed and there were no incidents. About 9:30 a gang of teen agers smashed five plate glass windows and the glass door at the Homberg Medical and Surgi cal supply 1001 Albany Ave Nothing was taken.

The group also tossed bottles Girl Whipped After Quarrel Police are looking for a man who they said pistol whipped hi girlfriend's roomate Sunday afternoon. According to police, a warrant for the arrest of a suspect charging aggravated assault will be sought today. The suspect reportedly had an argument with his girlfriend, Francis Compton of 283 Bellevue police said. He was coming down the stairs when Miss Com- pton's roomate, Lorraine Hill said something to him, police reported. They argued and the suspect reportedly pulled a revolver and told Miss Hill he would kill her, Miss Hill told police he pistol whipped her several times, then ilea.

Jne was treated and re leased from McCook Hospital. Hot Car Crashes, 3 Youths from New York Held An early morning auto chase which began in Berlin ended at Main and Morgan streets Sunday when three fugitives from New York, the driver a Juve nile, smashed the car they were driving into a traffic control box. Police arrested Jose Manue! Negron, 16, of 447 Central Ave. Brooklyn on charges of carrying a -dangerous weapon and being a fugitive. Marceilo Casado, 16 of 146 Woodbine Brooklyn was charged with being a fugi tive.

The 14-year-old youth was turned over to juvenile authori ties. Police reported the trio was driving in a car reported stolen Saturday in New York. Berlin police spotted them driving a- ratically about 3 a.m. Sunday and chased them to Hartford. The Berlin police could not catch the car before it crashed at 4 a.m.

in Hartford. None of the youths was injured, but the auto, was demolished. Police said Negron carried a switchblade. Reagan Addresses Governors CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) Gov. Ronald Reagan of Califor nia arrived at the National Governors Conference Sunday and denied any intentions of becom ing an active candidate for the Republican nomination for President.

"I couldn't possibly make a change on that at this time," Reagan "We'll go to the convention and then it will be up to the delegates." Reagan made the. statement in answer to a question at an impromptu news conference in a field near the terminus of the Greater Cincinnati Airport. A crowd of about 700 waited more than two hours under a boiling sun and 90-degree heat to see him. Prior to his arrival there had been rumors at the governor's conference that Reagan would announce he is aa active candidate for the nomination. In his present status as California's favorite son, his name will be put in nomination at the GOP convention in Miami Beach.

Reagan told the crowd the 1,333 delegates to the convention "will go there with a free and open mind." He predicted that the decision on the GOP nomi nee would be made after the delegates had deliberated among themselves. In short, Reagan was saying that front-running Richard M. Nixon does not now have the nomination locked up. Before Regan arrived, a reported plan for a coalition of Republican governors to unite now behind ft presidential candi date collapsed when the Ohio Gov. James A.

Rhodes said he would not commit his delegation to anyone. MIAMI BEACH. Fla. (AP) -In a cavernous hall built for the purpose, the Republican party will meet Aug! 5 before the biggest press, televison1 and radio army ever assembled for one of its presidential nominating conventions. The 'troubled world situation, violent unrest in the.

United States, and the certainty that a new president will take the quadrupled demand for press spice from foreign countries. Finland alone has asked for 30 hotel rooms, "The eyes of the world will be on Miami Beach and on the Democratic convention at Chicago," says State Sen. Robert Knowles of Wisconsin, executive secretary of the GOP convention arrangements committee. In the shock wave of Sen. Robert F.

Kennedy's assassination, the emphasis swung shaply toward security as plans moved will bring some 40,000 persons to this palm-studded resort island. A 6-foot high chain link fence Man Robbed of $21 By Couple With Knife As the walked down High Street early Sunday morning, an unidentified man was at tacked by a man and a woman, robbed of $21, and cut on tne finger. The man told pelice he was walking near 272 High St. when the couple approached him and pushed him into his car. They grabbed his wallet and cut him on the little finger with a knife, police said.

Police later recovered the man's wallet and papers on Cornwall Street, but not his money. Gun Charge Rufus Harvey, 50, of 118 Mag nolia St. was charged with carrying a pistol without a per mit by Policeman Clarence Hyde Sunday. He is scheduled to appear in Circuit Court 14 to day. LT.

COL. REED Hour Logged in Planes By Area Pilot Air Force Lt. Col. Harley L. Reed, brother of Emerson C.

Reed Of Glastonbury, has flown his hour as a military pilot. Col. Reed passed the mark while flying a KM hour mission in an EC-121 Super Constellation over Southeast Asia. The Colonel left an assign ment as project officer for all flights made by President Johnson to come to Southeast Asia in November 1967. He is a graduate of Glastonbury High School and was commissioned through the aviation cadet program in 1943.

I ft since they went to Baltimre in 1864. The city already has two con necting buildings a auditorium used for such events as boxing, basketball and re cording of the Jackie Gleason TV shows, and a con vention hall. Both these structures will be turned over entirely to the news media. Newspapers and news services will take over the audi- torium. The hall will be jammed with the equipment of the TV and radio networks.

Huge exhaust fans and 1,800 tons of air conditioning were in stalled to overcome heat gener ated by television lights. The convention will be the first telecast in full color. Television cameras also will be strung along Washineton 'running in front of the complex, where peaceable dem onstrations will be permitted under close police supervision. Police Chief Rocky Pomerance says his force will move in quickly if trouble starts. Miami Beach has hosted other conventions just as big, but nev er before was almost the entire city wired for audio and video, A microwave tower was erected beside the Convention Hall and coaxial cable laid to every major hotel along famed Collins Ave.

The American Telephone and Telegraph Co. said this Work had been planned for the future, but when the GOP convention was landed, it just went ahead and took care of five year's expansion in 10 months. "The temporary seats are something of a handicap," said Knowles. "Box seats are elevated only about a foot. This will make it more difficult to keep unauthorized persons off the floor.

"At San Francisco in 1964, the Cow Palace had. a single entrance and crowds were dispersed on the outside. Here, there are nine entryways and the disperse." atlon for the Nov. 3 election. sancnez yilieia, who ran a poor third in convention voting, said Negron's nomination was forced on the party rank and file by a political machine.

He seized a convention microphone to complain of irregularities in the selection of delegates. Negron received 1,125 convention votes; Puerto Rico's representative in Washington, Sen-tiago Polanco Abreu, received 475 and Sanchez Villela drew 106. In the past, nomination by the Popular Democratic party was tantamount to election in Puerto Rico. Men Grab Girl'g Purse Containing $30, Ring girl's purse at the Trailways Bus Station on Union Place at 11:10 p.m. Sunday.

The thieves then fled on foot to the railroad underpass at Spruce Street and ran north toward the Tunnel area. The victim, whom police would not said the purse contained $30 in cash, an opel ring with diamond chips valued at $200, and personal papers. As the thieves ran, a policeman on Walnut Street Jumped a fence to the railroad tracks and chased them. He lost the pair in the bushes. dent needs a dramatic break, with the administration to establish his political independ ence.

That is why he suggested re-! signation, Hoff said. "I can't think of another dramatic thing that he could do. He can't really do what he wants to do." Curtis agreed that it seems Humphrey needs to make some dramatic move to fuel his White House bid. -Curtis said Humphrey might add drama to his candidacy by enlisting Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy of Massachusetts to run for vice president. "I think if he Jehovah's Witnesses Attend Conference More than 13,000 Jehovah's Witnesses have concluded their four day "Good News for all XuVrT About 400 people from thej Greater Hartford area attended the meeting, arid listened to main speaker Karl Adams dis-j cuss the true nature of God's rule. City Fraud Suspect Gives Up To Detectives A man wanted by police for fraud for over two months gave himself up to detectives at police headquarters Sunday afternoon. Arthur Hansen, 45, of 14 High-view East Hartford, was charged with obtaining money by false pretenses and obtaining services by false pretenses. Arrest warrants accuse Hansen of fraud amounting to $160.

He is being held for Circuit Court 14 action today. Record of Fires cin1v. July 11. 1961 1:11 Still alarm. P.tr of SO Lib erty St.

abandoned 49M Oldjmooll. tiU 1.111.-5)111 alarm. Rear of 50 Lib- arty St. abandoned 1959 Mercury. i ti a.m.

Still alarm, Stat supermar ket at 1410 Main St Owner Andy Monfinero. Origin, cellar. Cause, over heated compressor motor, denv 8 to motor. p.m. Bo alarm.

Walnut and Edward Street. Fall alarm. 1:40 p.m. SI III alarm. 21 SlQOurny St.

Owner M. Wclner, fir In kitchen Itove. no damaqe. 7sl) a.m. SHU alarm.

Tower Avenue and Barbour Streets. 19S Oldsmo bile, owner v. Crui. No fire, gas In Street from ecldent, 1:41 a.m. Still alarm.

Cromwell St, First aid call for Edward Oeary, taken to Hartford Hospital by amour ance. 4:41 p.m. Still Alarm. Rear Ml Weth- rsfietd Av. Corona's Auto Parts.

origin in rubbish hi vfttant lot. 11:01 a.m. Bo alarm. Chapman and Newbury streets. Falsa alarm.

I Puerto Rican Governor Denied Bid for 2nd Term SAN JUAN, P. R. The Popular Democratic party turned down Sunday Gov. Roberto Sanchez Villela's bid for another term but he said he will run anyway. A split between the old guard and the new in the island's dominant party appeared likely in what may be its toughest election battle The party convention bowed to an ultimatum by its founding father, former Gov Luis Munoz Marin, in rejecting Sanchez Villela.

It nominated Luis Negron Lopez, majority leader in the island Senate. Sanchez Villela said he would not give up the race. He returned to the governor's mansion and told 5,000 cheering followers: "I have an Obligation to the people and to my party. I am not going to fall you." Munoz Marin, 70 four-time governor of Puerto Rico and a force behind its economic advances, told the 1,700 delegates that if they renominated Sanchez Villela, Munzo Marin would retire completely from public life. Hand-picked by Munzo Marin as his successor four years ago, Sanchez Villela has attracted considerable attention in largely Roman Catholic Puerto Rico with his divorce and remarriage to a former aide.

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