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TTiTiT a rm-rr Wkentucky edition Tmnnrr I34TH YEAR NO. 148 SINGLE COPY 15c Home Delivered 6 Days 75c EDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1974 Air Cra iree THE 1 As TT 7" oil rm I liills 1 Federal aviation officials are probing the crash Tuesday afternoon of an airplane in which a couple and their infant son were killed minutes after takeoff from Blue Ash Airport. The couple, Robert A. Williams, 37, and Barbara Williams, 29, had been the first husband-wife team to serve as nurses with the Army in Vietnam. Barbara; a 1965 graduate of Christ Hospital School of Nursing, asked to be stationed with her husband there after he was called to active duty.

They served together at An Khe, base of the First Air Cavalry Division. They had been in Cincinnati visiting Mrs. Williams' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bender, 2642 Ontario 1 MILE Paie Crasj Se DOTTED line shows ordinary flight pattern for planes taking off at Blue Ash; downed craft apparently circled once or twice before crashing (circled Exact direction at time is uncertain.

si Blue Ash Firemen Seek Clues To Crash Cause plane (wreckage in background) landed in creek behind 10271 Kenwood Rd. Amnesty Decision Still Hanging Major Inflation Legislation "'it C-i I i A. ft fvi Northbrook, over the holiday weekend. Williams was administrator of Caprock Hospital, Floydada, Texas. He was piloting the plane Tuesday, headed back after their visit.

The single-engined Bellanca broke apart in midair at 2:45 p.m., about 500 feet up, and fell into the backyard of a home on the west side of Kenwood near Zig Zag Blue Ash. The Williamses' son, Jeffrey, two months, was also killed in the crash. All three bodies were found in the wreckage. Witnesses' accounts of exactly what happened vary widely. But all agree the plane either exploded or suddenly broke apart and fell-in pieces-nearly straight down.

ONE WING section fell on the east side of Kenwood Road. The bulk of the wreckage fell through trees into a creek behind the home of James Donnellon, 10271 Kenwood Rd. Louis F. Glos, manager of Blue Ash Airport, said an airport employee told him that minutes after the plane took off "it started making a screaming noise." Another witness near the crash site said it sounded as if the engine "revved up" just before the plane fell. 1 Glos said the plane had been airborne less than 10 minutes before it crashed-perhaps as little as five minutes.

A Federal Aviation Agency source said he learned the plane had circled the field once or twice just after takeoff. Glos said their plane had been at his airport since Thursday and had been refueled twice since then. Williams filed a flight plan prior to takeoff which indicated he planned to fly from Blue Ash to Springfield, via Evansville, en route to Lubbock, Texas, about 30 miles from Floydada. Mrs. Donnellon, into whose back yard the bulk of the wreckage fell, said she "heard the plane hit and ran out and found a piece of what looked like a muffler that was still smoking." Blue Ash Police Chief Ron Stur-gill said witnesses told him the plane was "turning around and trying to land" again when it came apart, "like he realized something jwas wrong." Hector Gerber, another witness, said he saw the plane come apart at about 400 feet.

He said it exploded, although he said he saw no fire. He said he "heard an explosion" and "then fell, straight," and was spinning "like a screw." Some witnesses said the plane was flying generally south-to-north. Others described the course as northeast to southwest which would be back toward the runway where the plane had taken off. Investigators for the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration began sifting the wreckage and interviewing witnesses late Tuesday In efforts to learn the crash's cause. One witness told of hearing the plane "explode" and said she then saw "pieces of paper just flying everywhere." (The plane was of tubular metal construction with fabric covering and wooden wings, an airport spokesman said.) Residents along Kenwood Road who saw the wreckage fall thought at first that what they had seen was only a small part of the plane; they and some utility workmen nearby began a search of fields beyond the wreckage before realizing that the debris they had seen was all that was left of the small craft.

Victims Had Served In Vietnam 1968 photo shows Wllliamses as husband-wife medic team xpected Before 1975 Nixon Accuser John Dean Starts His Prison Term -Enquirer (Tom Hubbard) Photo developments and international arrangements for financial stability." The list of questions concluded by asking what actions summit participants would recommend that Mr. Ford and Congress adopt on both a long-term and short-term basis. The phrasing suggested short-term recommendations might well focus on dealing with "hardships and inequities" while longer term suggestions should be realistic. Meanwhile, terHorst said Mr. Ford wants to meet again with representatives of the Defense and Justice Departments on amnesty and "has some ideas of his own he wants them to consider." The White House spokesman said among the items concerning Mr.

Ford are "practical and operational mechanical questions." Asked if Mr. Ford is having second thoughts about granting any kind of amnesty, terHorst said, "absolutely not." Fern owners concerned about brown spots on the leaves of their plants need not worry, because they're just reproductive spores, a specialist at Indiana University advises on Page 10. The Weather Mostly sunny today and Thursday. High both days around 70. Clear tonight, low near 50.

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Taylor rented her cottage by 10 a. m. the day her ad appeared. It you have property to rent or sell, Just call our "advisor" at 421-6300. She will help you word your ad tor quick WASHINGTON (AP) An economic policy co-ordinator for President Ford said Tuesday long-range major legislation deemed necessary to fight inflation will probably be deferred until 1975.

In a telephone interview, White House aide L. William Seidman said any legislative proposals growing out of Mr. Ford's September 27-28 economic summit would probably come too late for congressional action this year because of the likelihood of a mid-October adjournment. But he said legislation of this kind would probably deal with longer-range aspects of the country's economic troubles. As for administrative moves Mr.

Ford can make on his own, Seidman said these would be made as required even before the summit meeting if necessary. Businessmen taking part in a pre-summit session were given a series of questions Tuesday to consider in pondering solutions for the nation's economic problems. White House officials disclosed the contents of a letter mailed to the participants as President Ford met twice with economic advisers. Because President Ford will spend so much time this week on the economy, Press Secretary Jerald F. terHorst said, a decision on granting conditional amnesty to Vietnam war deserters and draft resisters "just may not occur until Monday or Tuesday of next week." Mr.

Ford had hoped to make an announcement this week. Before the economic summit, several hundred persons, representing various economic interest groups, At a news conference following the signing, the American spokesman will affirm that the East Germans had agreed to consider claims raised by Nazi victims as well as claims by American firms, businesses, and Individuals when negotiations on claims are held. It is not expected that such talks will begin for at least several months. American officials said that in the more than a year of sporadic negotiations leading to today's signing, the United States made it clear, in the strongest manner, that normal relations with this country would be impossible unless East Germany agreed to discuss compensations for Nazi victims. Initially, the East Germans balked on two grounds: First, they repeated that East Germany was not a successor state to Nazi Germany, and, secondly, that the United States had no legal right to speak for Nazi victims.

But in the latest round of negotiations that began in July, the East Germans agreed, according, to American officials, to discuss compensation. Officials said that the actual talks would probably be Initially at a private, nongovernmental level. If the talks do not make progress, officials said, the United States would feel free to Introduce the issue in direct American-East German claims talks. will take part in 12 preliminary sessions across the country. A letter to those invited to a September 19 Detroit meeting of business and manufacturing leaders was expected to be a lot like letters sent to other participants, officials said.

In it, Mr. Ford wrote: "We are asking participants to come prepared to discuss the present economic situation, its causes and the most appropriate policies the government can adopt. We are also anxious to listen to your advice regarding the problems faced by your particular sector of the economy and how you can best contribute to controlling inflation. "The Conference on Inflation is a bipartisan national effort to deal with our number one domestic problem. Your participation will be a real service to your country, and I do hope that you will be able to give us the benefit of your thinking." Mr.

Ford sent along "a series of questions that will focus the discussions" at the preliminary sessions and at the Washington summit. The questions embraced the expenditure and receipts side of fiscal policy, the best course for monetary policy, government regulations that have an economic impact and economic conditions. Questions concerning government regulations at all levels centered on their effect on productivity, the impact of environmental protection requirements and invited discussion of "wage and price controls, guidelines or initiatives." Mr. Ford, at his news conference last Wednesday, flatly ruled out Imposition of controls. In the international area, the businessmen were invited to discuss the availability of raw materials and "current international economic i 'iHW Schippers Honored THOMAS SCHIPPERS, music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, was appointed Tuesday by President Ford to serve on the National Council on the Arts for a six-year term.

Mr. Ford made eight appointments to the 26 member council Including the pianist Van Cllburn, choreographer Jerome Rob-bins and composer Gunther Schull-er. The most Important government arts committee in the nation, the Council advises the National Endowment for the Arts on how to make the arts available to millions of Americans. 11 Bit iSt Trusts Jewish Claims Issue Gets E. German Nod A JUSTICE DEPARTMENT spokesman said only that Dean will be imprisoned in the Baltimore-Washington area to make it easier for him to appear as a witness at "trial, trials or investigations" yet to come.

The likely place is Ft. Holabird in Baltimore. Already an experienced witness in past Watergate-related trials, Dean's next call likely will be as a government witness against former White House colleagues H. R. Haldeman, John D.

Ehrlichman and four others at the cover-up trial scheduled to begin September 30. Dean pleaded guilty last October 19 to a single count alleging conspiracy to obstruct Justice and defraud the the United States. He subsequently was disbarred as a lawyer in Virginia and the District of Columbia. U.S. District Judge John J.

Sirica sentenced him August 2, allowing one month to straighten out his affairs. Dean, who will be 36 on October 14, had succeeded Ehrlichman as White House counsel when Ehrlichman became Nixon's No. 2 lieutenant. He was one of the first White House insiders to go to prosecutors with a story of high-level efforts to keep the stain of Watergate from reaching the Oval Office in the White House. "It is my honest belief that while the President was involved that he did not realize or appreicate at any time the implications of his involvement," Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee.

"I think that when the facts come out I hope the President is forgiven." Dean was photographed and fingerprinted before beginning the drive to the detention facility, some 50 miles away. AP Wlrephoto John W. Dean III years It WASHINGTON (AP) John W. Dean III began his prison sentence Tuesday, more than a year after he publicly confessed his own complicity in the Watergate cover-up and accused the President of the United States of being involved also. As Dean surrendered to begin a 1-4 year term for obstructing justice, he refused to comment when asked whether former President Richard M.

Nixon should also be charged with atergate crimes. Nor would he say whether he felt that events since his dramatic appearance before the televised Senate Committee hearings had vindicated him. Dean surrendered to Chief U.S. Marshal George K. McKlnney in mid-afternoon.

He walked rapidly through a crowd of newsmen that had waited for him for nearly six hours in a broiling sun. His wife, Maureen, a constant companion at the Senate hearings, did not come along. Pay Raise Proposed For Council Efforts to win a salary increase for Cincinnati City Council members have been renewed, it was disclosed Tuesday Robert W. Hilton attorney, is urging that council place on the November ballot an ordinance raising the salary of Council members from $8000 to $13,500. IN A LETTER to Mayor Theodore M.

Berry and other members of Council, Hilton said he was making the request on behalf of the recently discharged Charter Review Commission and himself personally. Hilton chaired the commission. "An increase in salary is absolutely necessary if Cincinnati is to retain high caliber and capable persons on Council and to encourage such persons to seek election to Council in the future," Hilton wrote. On recommendation of the commission, a Charter amendment to raise the salary of council members to $15,000 was placed on the May primary ballot by Council, but went down to defeat. However, Hilton noted In the letter accompanying the new proposal that the cost of living has gone up 77.1 since the present $8000 salary was established 21 years ago and that on that basis it should be raised $6170 to $14,170.

Thus the newly suggested salary does not fully reflect the cost of living increase, he added. New York Times Service WASHINGTON East Germany has agreed, for the first time, to hold discussions on the possible compensation of Jewish victims of nazism in the months following today's establishment of diplomatic relations with the United States, State Department officials said Tuesday. This was regarded by American officials as a significant policy shift by the East Germans who, until now, had refused to acknowledge that they were in any way a successor state to the Third Reich; and they had refused to compensate any victims of Nazis living outside their borders. West Germany, by comparison, signed an agreement in 1952 with the Conference on Jwish Material Claims against Germany, a New York-based international group, that led to an outright grant of $820 million, most of it directly to Israel, and the passage of indemnity laws in West Germany that have resulted in the payment of about $15 billion to individual claimants. Today at noon, Arthur A.

Hart-man, assistant secretary of state for European affairs, and Herbert Suss, of the East German Foreign Ministry, will sign a brief document establishing diplomatic relations. The two sides will agree publicly that either side will be able to raise claims issues with the other, State Department and East German officials said..