The Emporia Gazette from Emporia, Kansas • Page 25

Tuesday, May 3, 1977 THE GAZETTE, EMPORIA, KANSAS Page Kidnapping Story Is Being Pieced Together THE HORIZON BEYOND The Manhattan skylne rises above the Calvary Cemetery in the borough of Queens, silhouetted against the sunset on a New York Sunday evening, the close of May Day. Photograph by AP Photographer Ray Stubblebine. (AP Wirepholo) BRYAN, Tex. (AP) FBI agents and local authorities tried to piece together today what happened during the apparent kidnaping of a young St. Louis, woman and her 4- monlh-old son.

Robert Wiatt of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said late Monday night that Ethel McNier, daughter of a prominent Chattanooga, physician, and her baby son were picked up Monday at a Bryan bank along with the alleged kidnaper. She and the infant, Howard McNier, had been missing for four days from 31. Louis. The FBI agent and Bryan police questioned Mrs. McNier and the man for at least six hours here Monday.

"We have some loose ends that we have to check," said Wiatt. "We still have some of the ball to unravel." During the questioning Monday night, the baby was cared for by employes at the police station. "We had to buy diapers and other things for the baby," said Police Chief Joe Ellisor. "Some female employes did a lot of babysitting for awhile. Its mother came out to nurse it, however." Wiatt said Mrs.

McNier, 24, daughter of Dr. Charles Suggs Jr. of Chattanooga, was spending the night in a Bryan motel with her son and her father, who arrived from Tennessee by plane. McNier said police learned about the case after she tried to get cash at a Bryan bank by using a credit card. "An alert bank clerk called police and we took it from there," said Ellisor.

"The man was out in the ear with the baby during the time she was in the bank. The man apparently had thrown the fear of God into her." Wialt said the man first met Mrs. McNier at a St. Louis department store Thursday afternoon, when he asked for a ride on the pretext of meeting his wife. "Of course this was fictitious and after about five minutes in the ear he pulled a revolver on her," said Wiatt.

Wiatt said the man took Mrs. McNier on a four-day trip that included overnight stops In Memphis, Amarillo, and Bryan. FBI agent said that on Sunday night, according to the stories of the man and McNier, she and the haby were taken to the trailer home of a friend of the man, where she was introduced as the man's wife. "Apparently she went along with this," said Wiatt. "Her story was that she was afraid to do anything else." OFF ON ALL CLOTHING EXCEPT LEE'S LEATHER GOODS 414 Commercial 342-2482 OUR 67th YEAR Soybean Scheme Is Being Denied By Hunt Family CHICAGO (AP) Dismissal of a complaint that contends, in effect, that the Hunt family was preparing to corner the nation's soybean markets will be argued today by attorneys for the Texas oil magnates.

Lawyers for the Hunts and attorneys for the federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which brought the complaint last week, met for about 90 minutes Monday in the private chambers of Judge Frank McGarr of U.S. District Court. continued an "that was issued last week by Judge Joel Flaum and scheduled a hearing for 2 p.m. today on motions to dismiss the case. Pending that hearing, McGarr scheduled a hearing 2 p.m.

Wednesday on the CFTC complaint. In the closed-door session were W. Herbert Hunt and his son, Douglas Hunt, but they avoided newsmen afterwards, leaving by a rear exit. Ray K. Schlecter, a spokesman for the CFTC, told reporters that McGarr continued Flaurn's order which prohibited the Hunts from taking delivery of any more than 3 million bushels of May soybeans.

The complaint named seven members of the Hunt family and a holding company owned by one of them for "excessive holdings" of soybeans that "threaten disruption of the market and could cause serious injury to the American public." As of last Wednesday, the complaint said, the Hunts held contracts covering roughly a third of what the government had predicted would be the nation's stock of soybeans in August. Soybeans futures arc traded at the Chicago Board of Trade. -tfr Recent Rains Aid Crops in Kansas TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) General rains over the state last week and the weekend should further boost the already rapidly improving condition of the 1977 Kansas wheat crop, the state Crop and Livestock Reporting Service said Monday. As of last Friday, the condition of the 77 crop was 85 per cent of normal.

This compares with 65 per cent the last week of March this year, and 70 per cent for the last week of April in 1976, the service said. The continuing good moisture has improved the crop's prospects dramatically from two months ago, when fears were being expressed that the 1977 crop might be a disaster. The service said at that time such pessimism was premature. By the weekend, 75 per cent of the wheat crop had reached or surpassed the jointing state, compared with 70 per cent by that time a year ago. While no additional wind damage has been reported, the weekly summary of crop conditions noted that it had received several reports of moderate insect infestations in Saline, Harvey, Scdgwick and Ellis Counties.

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