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131st Year. 153rd Day Bloomington-Normal, Tuesday, June 1, 1976 22 Pages 2 Sections Three emos try again 1 r'VT to nip Cart rive i a it campaign manager, John P. Sears, said Monday that his candidate has decided to spend next weekend in Ohio to capitalize on support there that "has been increasing steadily." Reagan had originally planned to concentrate on California. Ford's California campaign director, David Liggett, said Reagan's decision to go east was iclearly a mark of confidence about the $tate which twice elected him governor. But Liggett, who conceded that Reagan leads in California, added: "It could be overconfidence." Reagan picked up support on Monday from Thomas B.

Curtis, former head of the Federal Election Commission, who said he was upset by Congress's restructuring of the FEC and Ford's ac-quiesence in it. Curtis, a former congressman, said he would run as a delegate-atlarge pledged to Reagan in Missouri. challenger to Carter in the Rhode Island popular vote, where latecomer Brown, who won in Maryland and Nevada, is seeking write-ins. In the delegate race, Brown is telling supporters to back the uncommitted slate. In South Dakota, Udall, a seven-time runnerup, says he has a good chance for his first victory there, and says it will give him momentum going into Ohio.

Church is believed to be the favorite in Montana, which abuts his native Idaho. Each state awards 17 delegates. The June 8 primaries in Ohio, California and New Jersey will produce 540 Democratic delegates, and Carter's main problem going into them will be to renew his image as a winner. Since Church and Brown have begun active campaigning, he has lost to one of them in every state where they have put forth a serious effort. Nonetheless, Carter's delegate accumulation continues.

He could lose all three primaries this week and all three on June 8 and still be some 200 delegates richer because of proportional representation. Additional states will pick delegates in conventions. There are also uncommitted delegates and those pledged to candidates who have withdrawn that may go to Carter. With them, he is almost sure to have more than 1,100 delegates going into the convention. The Republican races in Tuesday's three primary states have been relatively dormant with both men aiming for the June 8 primaries and their 321 delegates.

Neither Ford nor Reagan has been to any of the three and the 59 delegates may be split fairly evenly. Ford is believed to have a solid lead in Rhode Island and some GOP leaders there figure he can win all or most of the 19 delegates. Montana and South Dakota are less clear, although Reagan is given an edge in both, which will award 20 delegates each in proportion to the vote. In a related development, Reagan's 1 it Jk I '-f li i rp! 1 1 iiiiiiM T11 i' '11 1 1 1)(limii if ifiii fci ifiiiii imfll ii, i iiiiiiiiiini imnnn By The Associated Press Three Democrats try again Tuesday to slow down Jimmy Carter's drive for their party's presidential nomination. But despite some recent success, the numbers are working against them.

There are three primaries scheduled: in Rhode Island, South Dakota and Montana. In each Carter is being challenged by a combination of Sen. Frank Church of Idaho, Rep. Morris K. Udall of Arizona and California Gov.

Edmund G. Brown Jr. a combination that has provided so much trouble for him in the past three weeks. But whatever happens and it is possible that Carter could lose all three the former Georgia governor will get some of the 56 delegates at stake and add to his delegate total, now at 883 of the 1,505 needed for nomination. Udall, his closest pursuer, has 301.5.

There are also Republican primaries producing a total of 59 delegates in the three states, with President Ford once again facing Ronald Reagan. Neither man has campaigned in any of them and both took it easy during the Memorial Day weekend. Carter, Brown and Church all spent Memorial Day in Rhode Island, where the most interesting contest shapes up. Carter, who last week said he expected to win there, de-escalated that Monday, and before leaving the state for Ohio and South Dakota, he said: "I have a good chance to win in Rhode Island." The primary has two phases: a "beauty contest" for the popular vote and a separate contest for the 22 delegates. Church, who defeated Carter in Nebraska and Oregon, is the main Inside today Mitchell dies i Memorial Day 3 9 America's war dead honored Abby B- 1 Births A- 5 Classified B- 2 Comics A-ll Deaths B- 9 Farm B- 2 Opinion A- 4 Porter A-12 Sports A- 9 B- 3 Today B- 1 Weather B- 2 On this day two hundred years ago, the Continental Congress continued its debate on separation and the need for a statement setting forth its position.

Martha NEW YORK (AP) Martha Mitchell, a small town girl who became a peppery personality in the Nixon administration and later its noisy critic, died alone Monday of a rare and painful form of cancer. Mrs. Mitchell, 57, who once refused to bow to Queen Elizabeth, asked a newspaper to "crucify" a senator and hit a reporter on the head, died at Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center of cancer of the bone marrow. She had added piquance to the political world with her late-night telephone calls to the press and her shrill, shoo tfrom -the -hip opinions on everything from communism to dirty politics. Mrs.

Mitchell, the estranged wife of former Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell, was admitted to the cancer center Sunday for treatment of massive internal bleeding, a complication of the cancer, multiple myeloma. She was unconscious when she died in the intensive care unit.

A hospital spokesman said her husband and children were notified of her grave condition, but were not with her. Dr. Klaus Mayer, her physician, said Monday the internal bleeding was tion to permit commercial development on Florida land on which a firm in which he had an interest held a lease. Sikes denied it. The Wall Street Journal claimed Rep.

William L. Clay, billed the government for trips he couldn't have made. The paper named several other House members as claiming expenses for automobile trips at a rate of 20 centsa-mile when they actually fly home 'other costs. Clay called the allegations against him distortions. The Justice Department is investigating allegations that Rep.

Joseph Addabbo, D-I and Rep. Robert Leg-gett, Accepted bribes from the South Korean government. Addabbo said he had never taken bribes or illegal payments. Leggett called the accusation "idiotic." At least 49 members of Congress took advantage of a single holiday recess and taxpayer generosity for trips abroad. irk congressmen Arlington, (AP) Small American flags stand in front of gravestones honoring the dead at Arlington National Cemetery.

The flags are placed each year on Memorial Day. There are some 180,000 veterans and their families buried in the cemetery. think it's a day of peace." The long holiday weekend brought the usual grim report from the nation's highways. Early Monday evening, as many travelers headed home, the death toll stood at 390. The National Safety Council had estimated 340 to 400 persons would die on the roads during the three-day weekend that ended at midnight.

Ford delivered his Memorial Day address in the marble amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery. After declaring that Americans under arms had founded and preserved the Republic and made possible this year's Bicentennial observance. Charges By Harry F. Rosenthal WASHINGTON (AP) Congress is worried that charges of junketeering, bribery, conflict of interest and cheating on expenses and now a growing sex scandal are shattering public confidence and tarring its members, the innocent and guilty alike. The congressman-mistress scandal embroiling Rep.

Wayne Hays and Elizabeth Ray is "the frosting on the cake, in a sense the last straw," says a member of the House. Within the year, some members of Congress have been accused of falsifying travel expense accounts; accused of accepting bribes from the South Korean government; convicted of failing to file campaign finance reports; accused of accepting corporate funds; and have traveled to London, Berlin, Brussels, Rome, Naples, Vienna, Athens, Leningrad, the Azores and Paris to toil at picking up a copy of the Magna Carta, examining prisons and attending an air show. There was a charge that as many as one-fourth of the members of Congress used staffers for election work at government expense; there was another that some senators employed the Senate computer at taxpayer expense for mailing lists of campaign donors, political volunteers and party workers. In all, Congress hasn't presented the prettiest of pictures as it tries to woo the voters in a presidential election year. That, in part, has been considered responsible for some of the success of candidates taking an anti-Washington stance in their campaigns.

Even before the election season began, a poll by Cambridge Reports showed that 68 per cent of the American people didn't believe their elected officials. Rep. Romano Mazzoli, demanded on the floor of the House that Hays resign amid allegations that he used public funds to pay Miss Ray $14,000 a year to be his mistress. Hays admitted a "personal relationship" with Miss Ray but denied she was paid only for sex. Mazzoli, generally not so outspoken, said he made his demand out of a conviction that: "It was reaching the point of an absolute millstone around the neck of Congress at a time when the people outside, the taxpayers, need some im caused by "four stomach ulcers, probably caused by stress, pneumonia and the myeloma." He said Mrs.

Mitchell "really wanted to live. She was a very brave woman. She always tried to be pleasant and was reasonably pleasant, although she was in a great deal of pain." She was struck by the disease about a year and a half ago and knew it was not curable, Mayer said, "but we were both hopeful of remission with treatment." On Saturday, he said, Mrs. Mitchell was "alert, shipper and conversant," but she took a sudden and surprising turn for the worse. He said her heart stopped beating at the hospital, but was restarted immediately.

Multiple myeloma is a breakdown of antibodies that leaves the bones very brittle and susceptible to fracture. The Mitchells were separated in 1973. Mrs. Mitchell is survived by a son, Jay Jennings, 28, a researcher for a U.S. Senate subcommittee, and a daughter, Marty, 15, who attends private school in Connecticut.

The funeral and burial will be Thursday morning in Pine Bluff, where Mrs. Mitchell was bofn. Recently filed court papers seeking $36,000 in back alimony from Mitchell described Mrs. Mitchell as "desperately ill, without funds and without friends." Her attorney said last week she was $10,000 in arrears on her elegant Fifth Avenue apartment and the utility company had threatened to turn off her electricity. Pearl Harbor attacker, Mitsuo Fuchida, dies TOKYO (UPI) Mitsuo Fuchida, former Imperial Navy captain who headed the first wave of Japanese air raids on Pearl Harbor, died of diabetes Sunday, a hospital reported.

He was 73. After World War II, Fuchida converted to Christianity and made a lecture tour of the United States, preaching peace. A graduate of the now defunct navy academy, Fuchida was president of the Osaka Suikokai, a society of former navy officers. His book "Truth of Pearl Harbor Attack" was published in 1949. Fuchida died in Kashiwara, in western Japan.

crowd of several hundred in this tiny community of 350 in the rolling hills of eastern Ohio. "I called up and said a couple of days ago, in view of all the trauma there's been, 'Do you want me to And they said, 'Everybody wants you to And you've showed and I appreciate it and I can only say that this is a town that mirrors the depth and the strength and the power that's in America. God bless all of you." Hays said he would remain in the House two more years if reelected and then would retire. Several congressmen have urged that he resign now. While Hays has acknowledged an 18-month personal relationship with Miss Ray, he has denied tha't he put her on the payroll only for that purpose.

Hays came here to dedicate a war memorial for the community's servicemen. After the ceremony, Hays returned to his nearby Red Gate farm with his wife. He plans to return to Washington Tuesday to face investigations by the Justice Department and the House Ethics Committee. He would not comment when asked if he would testify before a grand jury. By The Associated Press At a graveyard of patriots in Boston, in the quiet of a small town in Iowa and on the beaches of Southern California, America remembered the dead of its war Monday and celebrated the advent of summer.

President Ford placed a red, white and blue wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, and in Davie, Boy Scouts canceled their Memorial Day parade rather than march with the Ku Klux Klan. But both those events were outside the mainstream. A wider view of Memorial Day, its meaning to Americans in this Bicentennial year, comes from a look at other, less publicized events. At the Old Granary Burial Ground in Boston a wreath of plastic flowers marked the grave of Benjamin Franklin's parents. Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere and four of the five victims of the Boston Massacre are buried there, but few paid them homage Monday.

"It's not busy at all. I guess everyone went to the beach," said Robert King, who spent the weekend at the cemetery for Boston 200, the city's bicentennial agency. Pigeons rested on the small rows of stones and squirrels darted through the feet of the few tourists walking through the graveyard. "We went to the Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park this weekend," said Janice Chapman, a visitor from Maine. "We thought we should see the historical stuff on Memorial Day." One young girl broke the cemetery's calm, motioning excitedly to her mother.

Both bent to read the inscription on one gravestone, Mary Goose, wife of Isaac Goose, age 42. Mary Goose is the Mother Goose of nursery rhymes. "She far outdraws our revolutionary heroes," said King, shaking his head. "You'd think people would care more about Hancock, Revere and Adams. But everyone has different reasons for coming here, especially on Memorial Day." In Clinton, Iowa, on the banks of the Mississippi River, the high school band marched through the streets in the traditional Memorial Day parade.

Thirty-four thousand people live in Clinton, many of them workers in factories that process the bounty of America's harvest. A.J. Mayer, 100 years old and Clinton's last veteran of the Spanish-American War, was in the parade. Four foreign wars have passed since Mayer shouldered his rifle in 1898. "We are faced with a very grave time now," he said, "but I have faith in America's people." The day brought this response from Clinton's 84-year-old Ann J.

Nelson: "I love my country and have faith in it that we can survive anything that confronts us." And after a week of clouds and drizzly weather, lifeguards around Los Angeles expected more than- 300,000 persons at the beaches Monday. Among them were politicians, plowing through the sand, seeking votes in upcoming state elections. But 34-year-old Rebecca Nelson, strolling the sunny beach at Venice, had other thoughts. "I think it's a day off," she said. "I V'vir Martha Mitchell Mitchell, who also was described as broke, was ordered to pay.

At Mrs. Mitchell's insistence, her husband resigned from the former President Nixon's reelection committee in the summer of 1972 as the Watergate scandals brewed. She once was a staunch Nixon defender. He urged her on. saying: "Give 'em hell, Martha." But after the Watergate break-in she said she wouldn't talk about some of the "dirty things I know about politics." Later, when the scope of the Watergate scandal was known, she became something of a honest heroine who flouted tight-lipped tradition.

Economic summit planned WASHINGTON (AP) A White House spokesman said Monday that plans are being made for a seven-nation economic summit in the Caribbean sometime this summer. Deputy Press Secretary John Carlson said that continuing "exploratory conversations" are aimed at bringing together leaders of the six countries who participated in a similar conference at Rambouillet, France, late last year, plus Canada which did not take part in the earlier meeting. The conferees at Rambouillet were the United States, France, West Germany, Britain, Italy and Japan. The government chiefs there discussed ways of combatting inflation and spurring recovery from the worldwide economic recession. Carlson said that "after the details are worked out there will be a formal announcement" of the Caribbean meeting, believed likely to be scheduled for early August.

There has been no word on where the sessions would be held. However, an American source did not discourage speculation that the summit would convene in Puerto Rico. In New York, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger was asked whether the conference reflected political opportunism by Ford. Kissinger replied: "It can't be a political ploy because they're not involved in our politics it has nothing to do with politics." He said the conference would give the governments a chance to discuss common problems and added that Ford's foreign affairs obligations would not stop just because he was running for election.

Folks welcome Hays portant legislation passed, and the best we can do is to generate a soap opera." Another congressman, Rep. William L. Hung ate, in announcing he will not run again; said the fun has gone out of the job. "In the last decade, politics has gone from the age of Camelot when all things were possible, to the age of Watergate when all things are suspect," Hungate said. He wasn't alone.

At least 48 representatives and eight senators have decided not to brave the electoral waters again. "I am finding Congress to be less of a magnificent experience of deep satisfaction and more of a demanding and, at times, irritating job," said another who is quitting, Rep. Thomas M. Rees, D-Calif. "I find the post-Watergate atmosphere to be a pall on what I consider to be a very honorable profession." In Oklahoma, Rep.

Thomas Steed said Monday that House Speaker Carl Albert may have "had enough" of Washington, and predicted his longtime friend and colleague would not seek reelection. He was reacting to a report in Time magazine which said investigators had heard allegations that a room in the Capitol assigned to Albert had been used for sex orgies involving Elizabeth Ray and others. Time did not say Albert was involved. In an interview Monday, Mazzoli said that things like the Hays-Ray incident serve only to deepen the cynicism of the American people toward Congress as a whole. But, he added: "I feel very pointedly that my friends up here aren't getting the message and that the reaction of many members was 'more of the fun and the old locker room talk." "The whole situation up here is playing right into the hands of the anti-Washington mob and the Hays situation is the frosting on the cake, in a sense, the last straw." House Democratic Leader Thomas P.

O'Neill has said that he intends to tell Hays some House members think his problems are having a direct impact on their chances for reelection. The events that brought that concern are reflected in recent news stories: Common Cause filed a complaint and the House Ethics Committee voted to investigate charges that Rep. Robert Sikes, sponsored legisla BANNOCK, Ohio (AP) Rep. Wayne Hays, whose affair with Elizabeth Ray has put him in trouble with some of his colleagues, received a warm Memorial Day welcome from the people with whom he grew up. Several hundred constituents applauded him and shook his hand.

The 65-year-old Democratic congressman is running in the primary June 8 against a token opponent. Hays displayed the style that has kept him in Congress for 28 years. He kissed babies and middle-age women, greeted constituents by their first names and inquired about their pensions. His 35-year-old wife Pat appeared with him for the first time and joined him on the speakers' rostrum. Hays again refused comment on charges by the 33-year-old Miss Ray that he put her on his House Administration Committee staff to be his mistress and paid her $14,000 a year from federal funds! He said his attorneys had told him not to comment.

But in a 15-minute address he alluded to the scandal without mentioning Miss Ray by name. "I appreciate the fact that you wanted me here to speak today," Hays told the.