1 Clay suspect accuses another of fatal stabbing
By MIKE PARFIT Editor
As the trial of the three accused murderers of Brian Clay began yesterday, the Daily Trojan learned that one of the suspects has accused a second suspect of stabbing Clay.
In the grand jury testimony, which, after an indictment, is a matter of public record, Douglas Lorenzo Tumbeau is quoted as saying:
“Yes, I saw Jew stab a white boy.” “Jew” is a nickname for George Edward Williams, also one of the suspects.
When the triai began yesterday, Williams’ case was severed from those of Turnbeau and the third defendant, George William Jordan. Williams’ triai began immediately; ihe trial for the other two defendants was set to begin on June 16.
In the transcript of the grand jury proceedings, Turnbeau is said to have told the police one story about not being on the scene at all and later to have changed it to the statement about Williams. The second statement reads in part:
“Yes, I saw Jew stab a white boy. I thought we were on 29th Street just off of Hoover, but guess it must have been on 28th Street. Billy and I were there but we did not do anything. I tried to stop Jew but it was too late.He, Jew, approached this white boy near a small vehicle. Asked the boy for the keys to the car, that he wanted to borrow the car. The boy said something to Jew and Jew stabbed him. Jew then ran across the street. I took off, too. I don’t know what happened to Billy. I guess he went home.”
Paul J. Fitzgerald, Williams’ attorney, told the Daily Trojan that it is his contention that Turnbeau’s statement is not true. Williams is pleading not guilty.
Most of the proceedings yesterday were quiet and boring as the judge, the Hon. George Martin Dell and attorneys for both sides questioned prospective jurors. There was only one moment of drama.
It came when Fitzgerald asked Judge Dell for daily transcripts of the jury selection proceedings. In a death penalty case a daily transcript is always prepared of testimony given, but transcripts of jury selection are not automatic.
Judge Dell said that he felt the transcripts were not necessary and that he felt some responsibility to the voters to keep the costs down.
Fitzgerald replied that he thought the judge’s economics were not relevant. ‘This is a death penalty case,” he said. “The people (the prosecution) are sparing no cost to try to send this boy to the gas chamber. I think this small extra cost is justified.”
He was overruled and the trial was recessed for lunch.
Following the break the room was filled with about 80 prospective jurors and the selection process began.
The questioning by Judge Dell, Fitzgerald for the defense and Dino Fulconi for the prosecution is expected to continue all day today and possibly through tomorrow in Superior court district 104.
Mauk responds to 'talk’ today at 11
Bill Mauk, former ASSC president, and Mike Russell, a graduate in urban and regional planning, will present a university-community relations panel discussion today in Founders Hall 226, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The discussion was prompted by the Daily Trojan call to talk. Russel is currently an administrative assistant in the Hoover Redevelopment Project.
Classes continue to respond to the Daily Trojan call for discussions on university-community relations.
A session in Mr. Rang’s Spanish 230 class discussed the definition of education and the purpose of the university. Some students thought that an education should be a preparation, and that it was not the function of the university to change things, and do something with the outside community. They believed that the university should prepare individuals to deal with the problems; individuals who will try to change the environment after their formal education.
Dr. Bert McLeash’s Special Education class 568 is bringing in Richard Stewart, a teacher at Carver Junior High School who is affiliated with the BSU, to discuss community problems today at 6 p.m. The proposal to approach Stewart arose from a class vote last Wednesday night, after the class had discussed community problems for a half an hour.
University of Southern California
DAILY » TROJAN
FESTIVAL HOSTS BLACK PRESS, JAZZ
The Black Awareness Festival continues today with a discussion of “Relevancy of the Black Press,” by six black journalists at noon in Founders Hall 129 and a performance by the Harold Land Jr. Sextet in Town and Gown Foyer at 7 p.m.
Participants in the journalism discussion are Ray Rogers of the Los Angeles Times, Leroy Robinson of Soul Illustrated, Jim Cleaver of the Los Angeles Sentinel, Louise Merriwether of the Black Anti-Defamation League, Ron Finney of Newsweek and Quincey Troupe of Shrewd Magazine.
The Harold Land J\ Sextet will perform "A Jazz Odyssey.”
Tomorrow the festival will present "Campus Revolution,” a discussion of campus issues, at noon in Founders Hall 129.
Also on Thursday's agenda is a reading of "Third World Poetry,” at 7 in Founders Hall 129. Tunji Vidal of Nigeria, David Valjalo of Chile and Quincey Troupe will recite their works.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7. 1969, VOL. LX, NO. 118
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Protesters from the Marine point of view.
Photo by Steven Silverman
Recruit controversy returns
For the third time this year Marine recruiters have made their presence known on campus, but yesterday they were met with more resistance than ever before.
Most of those polled in the general area of the recruiting tables felt that both the recruiters and the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which had assembled a peaceful protest group in front of the Marines, had a right to be on campus.
Bill Mauk, former ASSC president, who helped lead the protest faction against the recruiters, declared in a heated argument with another student that “everyone who signs up for the military here makes the military that much bigger.” Mauk said he has tried every legitimate way to get a bill passed to stop the Vietnam War.
“I’ve marched in parades and protested for the last four years,” he said. “I don’t see any way we’re going to get a bill of this type through the legislature so I’ve returned to whatever method of protest works. In this case it’s trying to discourage people from registering for the military.”
Capt. David Stout, from the USMC Recruiting Station in Los Angeles, said that the response at USC and other campuses to military recruiting varies with the tempo of student controversy towards the military.
He added that sometimes
'RAZA’ TALK SET TODAY
Reies Tijerina, president of Federal Alliance of Land Grants, will address the Great Issues Forum tomorrow morning at 11 on "La Raza: The New
Mexican-American Community" in Hancock Auditorium.
Tijerina founded the alliance, a mi litant Spanish-American civil rights group, to protect Spanish-American rights guaranteed in the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildado, which ended the Mexican War of 1848.
there is not a word uttered about a branch of the service being on campus. Other times, when anti-war sentiment is running high, they experience a lot of harassment.
Other students interviewed in the poll expressed the following opinions on whether military recruiting should be allowed on campus.
Jerry Poplawski, a junior majoring in philosophy and an SDS supporter, said, “Because of the university’s position in society, the university sets the trend in thinking. If it lets recruiters here it is saying that the military is a vital part of this country. We, in the SDS, feel that the military is a part of this country that should be eliminated.”
Bryan Lord, a freshman international relations major, said, “I think the military recruiters are as valid as any other recruiting agency on campus and for this reason I feel that they should have a right to express what they want.”
Dennis Masyczek, who was sitting directly across from the recruiters promoting a petition to end helicopter patrols said he thinks a campus should present all ideas and one of those is the military.
Board of Trustees, library topics at 1st 969-70 council meeting
In its first meeting the 1969-1970 ASSC Executive Committee decided to meet with President Norman Topping before acting on resolutions concerning the Board of Trustees and the library.
Jeff Ulman, sophomore representative, presented a resolution calling for the executive committee to ask the trustees to give them a copy of the minutes of their meeting last month in Palm Springs.
At that meeting the board amended some sections of the Statement of Student’s Rights and Responsibilities, which was passed by last year’s executive council.
When ASSC president Fred Minnes stated that the trustees do not make their minutes public, Ulman withdrew his proposal pending a meeting of the executive council with Topping on May 15.
Mark Savit, academic affairs vice-president, reproposed the motion, however. After graduate representative Bob Ennis said that the primary reason that the trustees’ minutes are not made
public is for financial reasons, Savit withdrew the motion, pending discussion of the matter with Dr. Topping.
Earlier, Savit proposed that the executive council ask the administration to hire three professional bibliographers to spend up to $100,000 a year for five years to buy books, especially for the English and social science departments. His proposal also called for a $30,000 annual salary for the three librarians.
“The 1960-1961 West Coast College Accrediation Report showed that the library had ‘spotty’ collections in many fields, especially the above departments,” Savit said.
The council will discuss Savit’s report with Dr. Topping next week.
In other council action, Minnes said that he was not sure that the council had the power to refuse to seat Dave Dizenfeld, who was declared the winner of a controversial election for junior representative over Steve Ogle by the Dean of Men, Daniel Nowak.