Photo by Bruce Bernstein 'Street theatre' scene An unidentified speaker mimics the President being controlled by the "puppet strings" of various corporations during the "Street theatre" held in front of Strong Hall Wednesday. Reports of guardsmen's deaths false KENT, Ohio (UPI)—A broadcast on a sheriff's radio frequency, the confusion of the moment and a breakdown in telephone communications led to erroneous reports that two National Guardsmen were killed in the shooting Monday at Kent State University. The report also came from the office of the University News Bureau. Joseph Durbin, assistant public information officer at Kent State, said, however, he did not issue the report and that so far as he knew, no one in authority in the office gave such a report. Carl Miller, assistant manager in the UPI Columbus bureau, said he telephoned the university news service after receiving reports from the Cleveland bureau and other news media that two guardsmen were killed. Miller said he asked the news service, "We have reports from your office that two guardsmen were killed. Is that correct?" Miller said the reply was, "Yes, there were two guardsmen killed." Durbin said it was possible Photo by Bruce Bernstein Portrayal of the 'Kent four' Students at the "street theatre" in front of Strong Hall Wednesday lay on the sidewalk portraying the four Kent State University students who died in the wake of National Guard bullets Monday. that in the confusion following the shooting, someone who was in the office might have given out the report as fact. Contributing to the confusion was a four-hour overload of telephone circuits in northeastern Ohio during which even emergency calls could not be processed. firmed only three deaths at the time and it was not known if any were guardsmen. David Dix, city editor of the Record-Courier at Ravenna, a community eight miles east of Kent, said a transmission from the scene reported the guardsmen's deaths. Jerry Hayes, of the university's news service, said school spokesmen were aware of the erroneous report but because of the breakdown in telephone communications, "There was nothing we could do" to correct it. Dix said another factor was that two of the dead brought to the Robinson Memorial Hospital were wearing khaki clothing. Dix said the sheriff's office dispatcher asked for and received a confirmation of this. Dix said a call to the university con- WASHINGTON (UPI)—Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield proposed Wednesday a high-level commission to investigate the Kent State University student deaths and an angry debate broke out in the Senate on where the fault lay for the shootings. He said he finally was able to set up a walk-talkie system with the campus radio station to "try and get the facts correct." Mansfield said President Nixon should create a commission including such persons as former Chief Justice Earl Warren, former cabinet member John W. Gardner and Sam Brown, a leader of peaceful antiwar demonstrations. On the Senate floor, Sens. Stephen M. Young, D-Ohio, and Robert Griffith, R-Mich., clashed over who was responsible for the campus deaths—Ohio National Guardsmen or student revolutionaries. Mansfield proposal prompts arguments Young, who introduced a resolution to set up a special Senate committee to investigate the Kent tragedy, termed the guardsmen "trigger happy." Griffin blamed student revolutionaries who he said "are much worse than bums." Young charged that the Kent deaths were caused by "trigger happy National Guardsmen who shouldn't have been in the National Guard in the first place but got in there to evade the draft." Griffin said a hard core of student revolutionaries fomenting violence "are much worse than bums. They are dedicated revolutionaries who are trying their best to overthrow the government of the United States." Griffin, while expressing sympathy for the dead students' families, sharply disagreed. He said he blamed campus revolutionaries and "namby-pamby faculty members who don't have the guts and backbone to expel these people when they engage in violence." Young criticized President Nixon on for "referring to students as bums" in a recent off-the-cuff remark. STUDENTS SUMMER EMPLOYMENT Pinkerton's, Inc. is now taking applications from students who desire summer work as security guards in the greater Kansas City area. They are at least 21, S8' high or over, and have a clean police record (traffic violations excluded). Apply Mon-Fri, 9 a.m. 4 p.m. Sat, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. Blvd, 1102 Grand, Kansas City, Mo. (AnEqual Opportunity Employer) Student arrested in St. Louis ST. LOUIS (UPI)—Campus police at Washington University arrested one person Wednesday on a warrant issued by the Circuit Court charging violation of a court order barring demonstrators from interfering with campus operations. 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