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[Mount Clipping in Spoce Below) 5 Pia, Mego leeser in N. Vietnam’ Wah Me acion Hivieaaese) A leader in the Nezrocs’ strus- gle for better housing conditions in Philadelphia, William Mimms, arrived in North Vietnam Mon-| day with a group of Quakers, to deliver medical supplies to civil- lan casualties there. | Mimms, 37, executive director fof the National Fair Housing As- sociation, joined $ other crew members .in Hong Kong two! weeks ago, and the ship Ieft for he war-torn country January 2), /"ponsored by a Quaker Action - Giaroup. w The eargo valued at 55000 was delivered to the Red Cross So- ciety of the Democratic Republic of North Vietnam. Also oa board the ship, Phoenix, were $2000) medicines destined for the Red Cross Society of the Nationa! Lib- eration Front in South Vietnam. ‘The supplics were paid for by contributions’ from persons in this country and Great Britain. Attempts made to deliver the: supplies last October were pre- vented because of the intensifica- whose National Fair’ Housing Association led hundreds tenants in rent strikes against. and those victims of the worth of antibiotics and general! poor and oppressed in this! ry ey war in Vietnam,” He said, “As I am using every jresource and exerting every ef- fort to make life more tolerable: jfor the poor in our own country, |so do I fcel the need to do the same for others.” The youthful housing leader who gained several victorics for tenant dwellers — in getting land- lords t8 make repairs — also said it is his hope that ‘by giving aid! to those cruelly affected by the holocaust in Vietnam, we not jonly show compassion to the vic- tims, but also plant that shee of sameness in other men $0 that they may see the futility of war and jso counsel others to do the same.” Mimms resides at 6401 Cather. line st. with his wife, Joyce, and their three children. . George Willoughby, co - chair- man of the Quaker group, which st, said “the fatest trip to North Vielnam is a further attempt by lour group te respond to human need. ! “The U.S. bombing coulinues,” fhe added, “‘and innocent civilians ‘continue to be killed and maimed.” : 2 PREVIOUS VOYAGES ‘ The Quaker group organized ‘two previous voyages of the Phoenix. — $10,000 worth of medical sup cunplias "Tor Wour thas its headquarters at 20 8. 12th} dad vw “ {plies were delivered to North Vietnam in May 1967. — Attempts to deliver supplies to the South Vietnamese Red Cross and the United Buddhist Church were rebuffed by the South Vietnamese Government last December. A Quaker Action Group was jformed in the latter part of 1968 jby a group of Quakers who felt an urge to do more to show their concern for their fellowman thay was being done by the official’ Quaker Church. § The Action Group raises its own funds and is administratively, apart from the official Quaker|~ body, although Quaker official jand church members have: shown sympathy and extended cooperas tion to their militant brothers. Lawrence Scott, director of race relations for the American Friends Service Committee (the ‘official Quaker organization), is executive director of A Quaker 4ction Group.- The other crew members, all veterans of the voyage to South Vietnam, are: “Robert Eaton, 23, ‘the ship's captain from Annape. lis, Md.; Bery] Nelson, 22, Kokomo, Ind.; John Braxton, 29, Beat North Wales, Pa; Maryann 3 ‘Naughton, 23, of Philadelphia’ ship|Committce for Non Violent Acé tion, and Christopher Cowley, trom London, England. {indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) t p.24-"The Philadelphia Tribu — Philadelph2 a,Pa Pate: 9/6/68 : “9 V91.84,NO.25 Author: Editors Wa Title: ” ington Rh Character: or 4 Classification: | submitting Office: (Being Pitestigcted