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Morse Assailed Study Tax Hike Private Backing of Bout Asked mo ME MAIMED A PAV EWEKV foOR tAE DISTRACTED as He Blocks Roll Call IS Greater than Johnson Asks BY PHILIP WARDEN (Chicago Tribune Press Service Washington, Feb. 28 Pro- (Pictures on back page) St. Louis, Feb. 23 SpecialJ Two United States astronauts who were to have orbited in May on a flight featuring the longest walk in space were killed today when their small jet plane crashed into the plant where their space capsule awaited them. They were Elliot M.

See 33, and Charles A. Bassett II, 34. See was a civilian and Bassett was an air force captain. Twelve workers were injured in the crash of the astronauts' tEPTUrtE RULED BY GEORGE STRICKLER (Picture on back page) The Illinois Athletic commission, indulging in a bit of legal -fU6 KiAflNE OP ARtE MOID Ay -Type of WoeK iuaT niwu fuf hin PlCE5 DOES VJEU.1& KAA1E WlfU cxz oie own amd 1N4 fWE. 6KOOVE tAOThiKiS THAT if MARCH a 1 for increasing taxes I COr4Plr4lt4S APPEALS TO WIM BOMB JUNK FLEET American planes bomb fleet of junks trying to evacuate 400 Viet Cong trapped by American marines near North Viet Nam border.

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more than pro-1 i for in resident Johnson's! a neuvermg, i nued to sidestep a decision in the con troversial Cassius Clay-Hrnie Terrell a eight ch ampionship fight yesterday bv shifting its 4 5 11 12 18 19 25 26 6-billion-dollar tax plan domi-nated the hearings of the Senate finance committee today. Committee 2 9 16 23 30 3 10 17 24 31 1 8 15 22 29 13 7 14 21 28 Aries Vas a i Clark William Hartke i nsibili-ties to Atty. Gen. G. AHO COE5 AFTfefit 20 27 WHAT Clark.

Vcting unanimously at a ub- aJEAUT FEEU OF CEtfid IVCHIEP OP commission Joe Triner lie hearing in the offices. Chairman BY PHILIP DODD Chic9o Tritunt Press Sarvicel Washington, Feb. 28. Tempers wore thin in the Senate today as the debate on the bill authorizing the appropriation of an additional 4.8 billion dollars for the war in Viet Nam neared the end of its third week. Sen.

Wayne Morse Ore. was the target of most of the verbal barbs. He continued to block every attempt by the leadership to curtail the debate and begin voting. At the end of the day, he began another of his lengthy speeches attacking the Johnson administration's Viet Nam policy. Money Bill Is Vital Chairman Richard B.

Russell Ga. of the Senate armed services committee said the money bill was vital legisla- ilAU ft fcx? GMOtlOlSi WE HEED5 0 EAlNI UiiMK'S HE NSEWQ MORE and Commissioners Lou Radzi-enda and Joe Rohichaux accepted withdrawal of the license of AfTEKiTiO 1 Take the National Sports Promotions corporation to hold the fight. As a result, the fight that I the commission appears deter- mined to foist off on Chicago despite the objections of the general public, Gov. Kerner, and Mayor Daley is, as of now, unlicensed in Illinois. members discussed privately: 1.

Levying a manufacturer's excise tax on luxury furs and jewelry. 2. Restoring excises on night clubbing, race tracks, and amusements. 3. Levying new taxes on alcohol and tobacco.

Sen. Vance Hartke Ind. insisted that the committee call Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Budget Director Charles L. Schultze to discuss Vietnamese war costs. 6 Months or 6 Years? Hartke questioned Secretary of Treasury Henry H.

Fowler at length about whether the administration is arranging now for financing a 6-month war or a 6-year war. He said he suspects a long war is in prospect and the answers he gets indicate only short-war financing. Fowler had urged the finance committee on Friday to start at once on contingency planning. He said Congress should make plans now for raising taxes in case war costs start soaring this summer. Hartke said the administration until now has unveiled only short-range plans for fi- Continued on page 2, col 1 HIJACKING CASEIFree 2 in Mossier FIGURE SLAIN! Trial Judae Asked BY PAUL HOLMES iv 'i Body Behind Plant in Melrose Park (Picture on back page) A 29-year-old man who was implicated in the hijacking of T-38 twin-jet trainer upon the roof of the three story building at the McDonnell Aircraft corporation.

The plane skidded over the roof, plunged into a parking area below and burst into flames. Bodies Thrown Clear The bodies of the two occupants were thrown out by the impact. There wTas a series of explosions as the plane was destroyed. The astronauts were coming in from the manned space flight center at Houston, Tex. Accompanied by their space backup crew in another plane, they had flown here for space training in a space simulator machine.

The other astronauts, Air Force Lt. Col. Thomas P. Stafford and Navy Lt. Cmdr.

Eugene A. Cernan, arrived a few minutes later. They safely landed their plane, the same type as the one that crashed, at the adjacent St. Louis Municipal airport, which also is the landing for the space center. Left of Runway A McDonnell spokesman said the See-Bassett plane crashed 2,000 feet left of the airport's instrument landing runway.

Light rain and snow were falling and a thin fog hung over the space center, where Gemini spacecraft and Phantom jet fighters are built, when the two astronauts came in for an instrument landing. The weather bureau said visibility was l-2 miles and the ceiling was 800 feet. Witnesses said the plane banked steeply at an altitude of about 1,000 feet, angled sharply toward the ground, then "sort of skidded in the air." A McDonnell spokesman said the plane apparently came in "real flat." Working in Office It clipped an air conditioning unit atop the space center building, struck the edge of the building's roof and sheared off a wing. It cut a gash in the top of the roof before "shooting off the top of the building," as one witness described it, and fell into the parking lot. The McDonnell employes injured, none believed seriously, were working in the engineering office.

Some were knocked from their chairs when the plane hit the roof directly above them. One man had a broken ankle. See was piloting the plane at the time, said Paul Haney, public relations director of the Houston space center, who came here. See formerly had been a test pilot who had worked out of the McDonnell center, and Bassett also had been an experienced test pilot. The crash occurred, Haney said, after See advised Stafford, who was piloting the other plane, that he was going to $32,000 worth television sets in 1964 was found slain last night behind a finishing plant in suburban Melrose Park.

The victim was identified as Leonard Centrone THE WEATHER TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1964 CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Mostly sunny today; high, about 40; low, in upper 20s; west to northwest winds 15 to 25 m. p. h. Tomorrow: Fair and mild; high, in 40s. NORTHEBV ILLINOIS: Generally fair today and tomorrow with no important temperature changes; high today, 37 to 44; low tonight, 22 to 30.

BAIL APPROVED IN DEBBIE CASE Schofield Posts Bond of $50,000 (Picture on back page) Loren F. Schofield, 27, the school teacher charged with the Feb. 11 murder of 10-year-old Debbie Fijan near West Chicago, was freed yesterday under $50,000 bond. Schofield, who lives at 4N512 Gary near Carol Stream, was released by Judge William J. Bauer in Du Page county Circuit court in Wheaton, after a two-hour hearing in which George Carbary and Robert Chapski, Schofield's attorneys, sought his release.

Sustains State's Objections Carbary and Chapski said they could show, thru questioning of Sheriff Stanley Lynch and his investigators, that the sheriff had no evidence the crime occurred in Du Page county, that he had no witnesses, and that what murder weapon was used was purely a matter of speculation. Bauer sustained the objections by Assistant State's Attorneys Anthony Peccarelli and Edward Elliott to most of the questions put to Lynch by the defense attorneys. Father Questions Attorney Schofield was scheduled to appear for a preliminary hearing before Magistrate Marvin Johnson on March 18. As Judge Bauer left the bench, Jack Fijan, who lives at 28W524 Wynn near West Chicago and is the father of the slain girl, approached Carbary and asked him why he was defending "a man like Schofield." Chicago TMMne Prtss Strvice Miami, Feb. 28 Motions for directed verdicts of not guilty against Mrs.

Candace Mossier, 40, and her nephew, Melvin. Lane Powers, 24, were argued before Circuit Judge George E. Schulz today and taken under advisement overnight. Mrs. Mossier and Powers have been on trial since Jan.

17 on charges of first degree murder in the death in 1964 of her husband, Jacques Mossier, 64, multimillionaire financier. Start of 7th Week Testimony in the case was concluded earlier in day when the state rested after examining five rebuttal witnesses. The defense offered no sur-re-buttal. The trial was at the start of its seventh week when the end of testimony was reached. If the judge denies the motions for directed verdicts, final arguments to the jury will begin tomorrow, with a verdict probable Wednesday night or anytime in the next several days, depending on the time needed by the jury for agreement.

Mistake from Start The directed verdict motions were argued hotly, with attorneys for both Mrs. Mossier and Powers contending that the state has failed to produce evidence that would warrant conviction. "This case was a mistake from the beginning," asserted Clyde Woody, chief attorney Sends Application to Clark In the next move, the commission accepted an application from Irving Schoenwald and Ben Bentley, the two stockholders in the corporation, to stage the fight as private promoters, but said the application would be sent to Clark for decision on its validity. Clark said last night he would deliver his opinion to the commission this afternoon. He declined to comment further.

When Triner was asked whether the fight was on or off, he replied: "We can't answer that." Basis of Ruling Clark had ruled the license illegal because the corporation was composed of only two persons Schoenwald and his partner, Ben Bentley. Under Illinois law a corporation must have 50 members to be eligible to promote a fight. Clark also had ruled that the boxers' licenses granted to Terrell and Clay were invalid. Asked about their status yesterday, Triner refused to answer, but Radzienda said: "The attorney general is our attorney and he's going to look over all the papers submitted to this office. That's how simple it is." Wants Same Date "I don't agree with the simplicity Triner said, and Radzienda interrupted him to add: 'fHe can look over the papers in 10 minutes." Schoenwald said he would like to hold the fight on March 29, the date- originally selected before Clay aroused protests to the fight by uttering unpatriotic statements when he was reclassified for immediate call by his Louisville draft board.

If Schoenwald's application for a new license is not acted upon immediately, however, Schoenwald said he would seek a new date, probably April 8. Mayor Daley, upon being in- Continued on page 1, Sports for Mrs. Mossier. "It would be an even greater mistake at this point to require that Mrs. Mossier be subjected to jury deliberation.

There is no evidence that she aided, abetted, counseled, hired, or procured this murder. There is no evidence against her whatsoever." Speaking for Powers, Harvey St. Jean, a local attorney on Powers' legal staff, said that a Florida statute makes it mandatory for a judge to direct a verdict in any case where the evidence is insufficient to support a finding of guilt. Three attorneys for the prosecution, headed by Richard E. Gerstein, state attorney for the 11th Florida judicial district, argued that it would be a miscarriage of justice for the court to prevent the case from going to the jury.

Charges They're Guilty "There is only one reasonable conclusion from the evidence," Arthur Huttoe, Ger-stein's executive assistant, argued. "That is that Mrs. Candace Mossier and her nephew planned, plotted, and consummated the act that had been in their minds for two years the murder of Jacques Mossier." Huttoe traced the state's evidence at the crime scene to the fact that a man resembling Powers had been seen to flee after the crime in an automobile belonging to Mrs. Mossier, and that the car was left at the Miami International airport when Powers went back to Texas the following morning. "The motive here is clear," Huttoe said.

"It was a sordid love affair between Mrs. Mossier and Melvin Lane Powers. There is evidence that Mossier Continued on page 2, col. 4 Russell (left) and Morse tion but that the Senate was making itself look ridiculous by its failure to come to a decision. "I've been in filibusters," the dean of the southern Democrats said, "but I've never been in one like this.

Everything has been discussed but the content of this bill." Sen. Stuart Symington Mo. said he was in possession of information, the nature of which he did not disclose, which led him to believe that continued delay in making the 4.8 billion dollars available will make the Senate responsible for additional American casualties in Viet Nam. "There will be things they'll be out of unless we act," Symington said. House Passage Expected Morse wanted to know what the hurry was, since the House has not yet passed the bill.

However, that body was scheduled to take up the measure tomorrow with passage certain under a rule limiting debate to four hours. The Senate has been talking on the bill since Feb. 16. Chairman J. W.

Fulbright Ark. of the Senate foreign relations committee, one of the dozen or so senators lined up with Morse, said there was no urgency in the situation. He said Vice President Humphrey, reporting on his recent trip to Viet Nam, said he was told there were no shortages of ammunition or weapons in Viet Nam. "This is a long-range procurement bill except for one Continued on page 2, col. 2 WEATHERMAN'S RECORD His forecast for yesterday was: Cloudy, with lisht rain or drizzle at times; high, around 40; low, near 30.

TEMPERATURES IN CHICAGO 1 P. 35 3 p. 34 4 p. 5 p. m.

a. 37 7 a. 37 a. 37 a. 10a.

37 11 a.m... 37 Noon 37 1 p. 36 10 p.m... 35 11 p. 35 Midniiht.35 1 a.

2 a. 3. 4 i. 34 5 a. 6 p.

7 p. 8 p. p. Centrone, of 2617 59th Cicero. He had been shot in the heart, groin, and back of the head.

His body was lying 50 yards from his blood-spattered auto. Police found the body behind the Advance Finishing company, 2074 George on the northeast edge of the village. Centrone's 1964 Pontiac was parked in Armitage avenue. Seized Unloading Truck In November, 1964, Centrone and three other men were arrested in an abandoned warehouse in River Grove as they unloaded stolen television sets from a truck. Centrone said he had been kidnaped and forced to help the men.

No charges were placed against him but the other three were convicted last June and sent to prison. Centrone's body was found at 8:15 p. m. by Patrolmen Daniel Principe and Anthony Stellato after they saw blood in the autb and followed a trail to bewnd the factory. A snub-nosed .38 caliber revolver was found on the front I Continued on page 2, coL Hi9h.

Low. Estimated. THE MOON fin Ou. Fu Ui Ou. Wwi Nw C9 IS Sunrise, Sunset, 5:41.

Moonset, 3:23 a. m. tomorrow. Morninf star: Venus. Evening stars: Saturn and Jupiter.

For 24 hours ended midnijht, Feb. 28: Mean temperature, 35 degrees; normal, 30; month's excess, 14; year's deficiency 214. Relative humidity, i a. 73 per cent; noon, 74; p. 100.

Precipitation (to p. m.l, .47 inch; month's total, 1.78 inches; February normay, 1.60 inches; year's total 2.0 inches; deficiency thru Jan. 31, .74 inch. Highest wind velocity. 14 m.

p. h. at 8:42 p. m. from northwest.

Barometer, a. 2f.8V; p. 29.61. Map and other reports on page 14 Watch on the Wall Page 10.