Judge Signs Order

The end of the occupation of the statue came at 11:30 A.M., 42 hours after the veterans secreted themselves in the monument just before closing time Sunday.

At 9.A.M. United States District Judge Lawrence W. Pierce signed a temporary restraining order the Government had sought. The order called on the demonstrators to open the doors and remove themselves from the statue “except during normal visiting hours.

Within an hour, a National Park Service boat, the Liberty II, which had been ferrying. newsmen, officials and policemen in a furious shuttle, arrived on the island with two of the group's lawyers, Rhonda Schoenbrod and Doris Peterson, and Alan B. Morrison, an assistant United States attorney.

While the private lawyers went into the statue to consult with the veterans, Mr. Morrison explained that the Govrernment's position, “created throngh consultation with appropriate officials in the Justice Department, has been to proceed on a course that would avoid violence and confrontation.”

According to Jim Murphy, a 26‐year‐old former Air Force sergeant who was one of the 15, part of the meeting with the lawyers was spent in discussing whether to stay or leave. The first vote was split. The second one was unanimous —to leave.

“We realized our only alternative was jail, and if we're going to take this protest to the country we can't afford to spend time inside,” said Tim McCormick, a 24‐year‐old former medical corpsman from Somerville, N.J.

One Was a Ringer

Then, about half an hour after the lawyers went in the center doors on the lower level were opened and the veterans poured out, holding their fists aloft.