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The SUBURBAN DELIVERY WEEK DAY Zetland, Saugaluck, Douglas, Olive, Hudsonville, fennvilte, Htmifon, East luck, Monfello Park, Central Park, Virginia Park, Jtmiton Maeatawj Park, Norlh Evening Sentinel DELIVERY WEEK DAY EVENINGS Shore and District No. 2 SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR NO. 37 HOLLAND, MICHIGAN, 49423 MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1970 SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS EXPLOSION ROCKS BUILDING--These are the twisted remains of the basement offices of the old Federal Building, in downtown Minneapolis, after an explosion today Angela Davis Escapes Capture SAN FRANCISCO (UPD -Angela Davis, missing Communist black militant charged with murder in a San Rafael Courthouse shootout that killed four men, narrowly escaped capture in Alabama over the weekend. Lt. Dan Jordan at the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office in Birmingham, said today the ousted UCLA philosophy instructor left Birmingham 20 minutes before a series of raids that had been delayed Saturday by legal red tape.

"I feel the reason we didn't et her was because when we earned oi tec had to telegraph the San Rafael Courthouse "to be sure they had warrants for her arrest," Jordan said, explaining the message exchange took eight hours. San Rafael authorities alerted police at Montgomery, and Atlanta, the lookout for Miss Davis. Atlanta police and the FBI said they had no knowledge of her whereabouts. The FBI said it had received calls on "look- alikes" in response to its nationwide alert but nothing concrete. Jerrold Ladar, an assistant U.S.

attorney in San Francisco, said Sunday a shotgun used to kill Judge Harold Haley, 65, in San Rafael Aug. 7 had been purchased two days before by Miss Davis. Because Miss Davis, 26, was seen in her hometown of Birmingham, Ladar said, a federal fugitive warrant has been obtained for her arrest. Such a warrant brings FBI agents into the search. Previously she had been charged in state warrants with murder and kidnaping because of the fatal escape attempt by three Negro convicts and their teen-age accomplice.

Under California law, anyone aiding or abetting in a major crime is equally guilty with the direct, participants. Four guns Miss Davis allegedly had purchased were smuggled into Haley's courtroom by Jonathan Jackson, 17, during the trial of James D. McCIain, 37, a San Quentin convict charged with assaulting a guard with a knife. Three convicts and Jackson took the judge, an assistant district attorney and three woman jurors as hostages and attempted to flee in a rented truck. In the ensuing battle, the judge was killed by the shotgun taped around his neck and other bullets killed Jackson and convicts McCIain and William A.

Christmas, 27. The other convict, Ruchell, Magee, 31, was wounded as was the prosecutor, Gai-y W. Thomas, 32. The hunt for Miss Davis in Weather Fair tonight and Tuesday cool tonight, low- 56-61. Warmer Tuesday, high in the mid 80s.

The sun sets tonight at 7:44 p.m. and rises tomorrow at 6:56 a.m. The temperature at 11 a.m. today was 76. Temperature at Holland State Park, air, 77, water 69.

The green flag is flying. For the 24 hours ending 5 p.m. yesterday the instruments recorded the following: Local Report 84. Miniuum, 54. Precipitation, .42.

One Year Ago Yesterday Maximum, 83. Minimum, 68. Precipitation, none, Birmingham resulted from a photograph published in the Birmingham Post Herald. An unidentified man who saw the picture telephoned police he had seen her at a shopping center there. U.S.

District Court Judge Gerald Levin, who issued the fugitive warrant, set her bail at $100,000. 2nd Poseidon Missile Fired CAPE- KENNEDY (UPI)-The nuclear submarine James Madison successfully test fired its second Poseidon missile at sea today and this time the range was clear of Soviet eveasdroppers. nearest Russian ship was hundreds of miles to the north. A Soviet spy ship boldly watched from 'a distance of only 3 OOO yards two weeks ago when the James Madison launched the first of the new multiple warhead rockets while submerged 30 miles offshore. But today an accompanying destroyer and aircraft reported there were no unauthorized vessels in the area.

The whale-shaped submarine launched today's missile at 12:16 p.m. EDT, more than an hour late because of delay in the arrival of the tracking ship Observation Island and technical problems. The stubby, 34-foot rocket rode a column of steam to the ocean's surface and streaked toward the southeast, leaving a long geyser-like wake of white smoke and vapor. It carried a dummy version of the new MIRV multi-bomb assembly. rocked the structure causing extensive damage to both the interior'and exterior of the building.

Police and FBI detectives are investigating the blast. (UPI telephoto) Blast Rocks Building In Minneapolis MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UPI) explosion at the Federal Building in downtown Minneapolis early today blew out a dozen 10-foot windows, threw pieces of concrete 450 feet into a parking lot across-the street and injured a security guard. The bomb was planted under the steps and consisted of 24 sticks of dynamite, police said. Damage was estimated at $500,000.

Eight to 10 sticks of dynamite had been placed under the main steps on the east side, an officer at the scene said. But federal authorities said they were not yet certain how the bomb was made. The blast severed the steps from the buildings, leaving a hole about 10-feet high and 8- feet wide under the door, te beams weighing around 300 pounds were heaved out to the curb. A security guard inside the building when the bomb wenl off" at 2:58 a.m. was treated and released from a hospital.

There were no other reported injuries. Damage was extensive to offices on the lower level of the two-story structure, which occupies one city block. Government employes were reporting for work. Damage was limited to the east side of the building. Lebanon Has Vote BEIRUT (UPI)--Members of Lebanon's parliament engaged in last minute maneuvering today in an effort to agree on a choice for a president to lead the nation for the next six years.

Agnew Raps Viet War Fund Cutoff Says Senate Proposal Tragic Blunder'That Would Bring 'Chaos' MIAMI -BEACH (UPD--Vice President T. Agnew charged today that a Senate proposal to cut off funds for Vietnam War is- a "tragic that would bring and ruin chances for peace in Southeast Asia for the rest'of the'century. Agnew, who characterized his charges as "among the strongest since I took office as vice president," was interrupted by applause 10 times during his half-hour address before the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at Miami Beach. Agnew leveled his attack at a so-called end-the-war proposal sponsored by Sens. Mark 0.

Hatfield; and George S. McGovern, It is an amendment to the long-pending Military Procurement Bill now being debated in the Senate. A vote on the amendment isn't likely until late August or early September, since the Senate is currently involved in a debate on moves to limit antiballistic missile deployment, also proposed as an amendment to the bill. The a i amendment would shut off financing of Southeast Asia operations by the end of this year and pull out all troops by mid-1971. The vice president said the Hatfield-McGovern amendment, if passed by Congress, was a threat "to everything our servicemen have fought to accomplish in Southeast Asia." "Hatfield-McGovern," Agnew said, "is a blueprint for the ikst defeat in history oi the United States--and for chaos and Communism for the future of South Vietnam If adopted by the Senate and passed by the House, this publicized 'amendment to end the war' in Vietnam will go down in history as the amendment that lost the war in Vietnam and destroyed the chances for freedom and peace in Southeast Asia tor the balance of the century." Townships To Ban Outdoor Burning Dry conditions have prompted officials in Port Sheldon and Holland Townships to ban all outdoor fires.

Officials said burning permits would not be issued as long as the dry conditions exist. Holland township firemen were called out shortly before noon today to the Beeline Road between Felch and James Sts. where a minor grass fire was reported. Moments later Park township firemen were called to a grass fire near Lake Breeze off the Ottawa Beach Road. 'Venus 7' Is Launched MOSCOW (UPD--The Soviet Union launched its seventh unmanned rocket ship toward Venus today on a four-month voyage to explore the hot and hostile atmosphere of earth's closest planetary neighbor.

The official Tass news agency said the probe, named Venus 7, began its journey at 8:38 a.m. Moscow time (1:38 a.m. EDT), broke free of earth's gravity and began the long coast to intercept Venus as it makes a close approach to earth later this year. It was the first major Soviet space exploration attempt since June, when cosmonauts Andrian Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastianov spent more than 18 days in space, longer than any other men on a single flight. Cong Terrorists Bombard Saigon TAKEN UNDER TOW--The hulk of the SS Lebaron Russell Briggs is taken under tow with its cargo of nerve gas rockets Sunday Poison Gas Ship Near Graveyard at Sunny Point, N.C.

The vessel is scheduled to be scuttled off the coast of Florida. (UPI ABOARD THE USS HART-. EY (UPI)--The condemned SS Lebaron Russell Briggs, its belly lined with 418 vaults of poison gas, silently followed a tug today towing the old war veteran to a burial site 282 miles off Cape Kennedy. A specially trained crew will scuttle the faded gray World War 'liberty ship and its of gas in 16,000 feet of water Tuesday, unless a storm interferes. At 6:30 a.m.

EDT, the flotilla carrying the nerve gas to the dumping grounds was 250 miles east of Jacksonville, more than one-third of the way to the graveyard. At this rate, the ships will reach their destination Tuesday morning. The after voyage got a series underway of legal maneuvers, including a Saturday midnight order by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger temporarily halting it. An appellate court conducted an unusual Sunday morning- hearing, and gave the Navy the go- ahead for 'the burial.

The hulk was pulled from its berth in Cape Fear River into the Atlantic Ocean seven miles downstream Sunday through a curtain of rain showers. Navy spokesmen, however, predicted good weather for most of the 300 mile voyage and at the scuttle site. No one has been aboard, the vessel since a river detail lefl the ship after it passed through the channel out into the Atlantic about 6 p.m. Sunday. The hulk will be boarded again at the disposal site by a scuttling crew that will open the seven flood valves to let in seawater and sink the vessel.

Capt. Arthur G. Hamilton, commander of the task group carrying out the disposal, observed the towing operation carefully from the Coast Guard cutter Mendota. Hamilton said he hoped to have the hulk at the scuttle site by first light Tuesday. Collins' Jury Resumes Its Deliberations ANN ARBOR, Mich.

(UPD- fhe John Norman Collins murder trial jury, refreshed from a weekend of rest from deliberations, returned to the room today for a third day of weighing whether the former college senior is guilty or inno-j Seal Jackson, was cent of first degree murder. charged in the death of William The six men and six women Hefner, 27, of Sylva, N.C., whose jnded two days of deliberations battered body was found in the brush behind a small cabin occupied by the two on the farm of Orrin Ensfield seven miles southwest of Fennville. and rehearing testimony Saturday night in the Washtenaw County Courthouse. They spent Sunday in a guarded motel. For the third time since its deliberations began, the jury into the courtroom to havej more testimony read back to it, after deliberating 2'-2 hours this! morning.

The testimony was that Arnold Davis, a former room-1 mate of Collins who testified i BUILDINGS BURN Fire touched off when sparks from a cutting torch, ignited gasoline fumes destroyed a barn and another building at Marion Van Sboten's Van's Pines, 144th Ave. and Tyler St. in Port Sheldon Township Saturday at 11:49 a.m. The loss included a 1966 'model cor, two trucks, farm supplies and a walk-in cooler. Port Sheldon Fire chief Wells Penno said firemen from Port Sheldon, Blcndon, and Holland Township Number 3 who battled the blaze four hours prevented flames from destroying a metal building on the west side of the barn.

Douglas Troost, 19, of Holland, using the cutting torch in a workshop, was not injured. Port Sheldon firemen Art Moser injured his back while attempting to move a heavy door. Loss estimates were.not available. photo) Ebon Irked By Laird's Statement JERUSALEM (UPI) Foreign Minister Abba S. Eban protested today that U.S.

doubts about Israeli charges of an Egyptian missile buildup near Suez Canal were "really too much." He said the buildup is continuing in violation of the cease-fire. Eban was critical of Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird's statement Sunday that it was difficult to "prove or disprove' the Israeli charges that Egyp tian forces were moving Sovie antiaircraft missiles closer tc the canal. Seal Stands Mute In Allegan Circuit Court ALLEGAN--Floyd 0. Seal, 37, charged with murder in the July 24 slaying of a fellow migrant worker, stood mute at his arraignment today before Allegan County Circuit Judge Wendell A.

Miles. No trial date was set and Seal was held without bond at the Allegan County Jail. Car Strikes Two Brothers Walking Along Roadway Two brothers struck by a car while walking along 56th St. in Allegan County's Fillmon Township Sunday at 8:25 p.m remain in Holland Hospital to day where one was listed in serious condition. Admitted to the hospital were Edward Becksvoort, 62, and his brother, Herman, 60, both route 5, Holland.

Edvyard was listed in serious condition wit multiple severe head lacara tions and multiple broken bones. Herman, in good cond: tion, was suffering from a fractured left leg. South Haven State Police sai the brothers were walking sout along 56th St. near 138th Ave when a car driven north Luis Ramirez, 29, of 241 Wes 18th of 56th brothers. Police cited Ramirez for careless driving.

Neither the driver or his two passengers injured. ran off the east sidi St. and struck i Killed In Newest "ampaign U.S. Forces Kill 8 South Vietnamese In Accidental Push SAIGON (UPI) --Viet Cong errorists injured at least 35 ersons in bombings in Saigon unday night and today. The J.S.

Command said American orces accidentally fired on outh Vietnamese troops, kill- ng eight men and wounding even others. Saigon police officials said tie bombings appeared to be he opening of a terror ampaign in the capital to oincide with the 25th anniyer- ary of the i akeover of North Vietnam. U.S. spokesmen disclosed that American artillerymen mis- fired four 155mm shells into an outpost 86 miles north of Saigon occupied by South Vietnamese civilian irregular defense group mercenaries, ight men died and seven were wounded in the accidental )ombardment on Saturday. Last Thursday, 11 Vietnamese militarnen were rilled and 26 were wounded, including two American advisers when U.S.

mortar shells 'xploded in their position near Tay Ninh City, 66 miles northwest of Saigon. Air Force sources said about of the U.S. Air Force ileet of B52 Stratofortresses in Pacific theater were in action, late Sunday night and early today over South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. About 50 of the eight-engine jets dropped approximately 1,500 tons of bombs on base camps, bunkers, weapons- josi- tions, storage and staging areas- and troop concentrations in the three countries. A unit of the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry division operating southeast of embattled fire base O'Reilly, 12 miles east of Laos, was hit by 300 rounds of 61mm and 82mm.

mortar fire early today. Two soldiers were killed and two others wounded. Fighting involving American troops was reported light and scattered although one American was killed and three wounded when their truck hit a mine in Binh Duong Province northwest of Saigon, military spokesmen said. The U.S. Command said American troop strength in the war zone declined by 300 men last week and stood" at 406,050 as of Aug.

13. The United States will have to withdraw 22,050 men by Oct. 16 to fulfill the' i administration's Phase Four pullout of 50,000 men. 3 Judges Study Parochiaid Vote LANSING (UPD--An appeals to remember what time they were riding. There have been reports of sharp and loud arguments in about Collins' whereabouts the i cour panel made up of two day Miss Karen Sue Bememan Protestants and one Catholic disappeared.

Davis said Collins judge took under advisement him a motorcycle-riding, today the question of whether a late in the afternoon, went proposal to outlaw parochiaid alone to the basement where should go on the November girl allegedly was slain to lot in Michigan, feed the uncle's dog late at The panel heard final argu- night, and after Collins learned merits of 30 minutes each from he was a suspect, asked Davis backers of the amendment and representatives of the attorney general's office, which has ruled the proposed amendment is illegally drawn up. Court observers said they expect a ruling before Sept, 4 by the panel, made up of Judges Donald Holbrook, a Methodist; John W. Fitzgerald, a Con- grcgationalist; and Thomas M. Burns, a Catholic. Sept.

4 is the deadline for the secretary of state's office to draw up the wording which will appear on the ballot and to send the wording to local election boards around the state. The appeals court last week ordered the secretary of state to begin processing the petitions containing 321,000 signatures, in case it rules in favor of the parochiaid foes. The anti-parochiaid forces are i immediately Storm Pelts East Coast I I I A BEACH Va (UPI)--A "severe" tropical depression punished the mid- AUantic seaboard today, slamming Atlantic Beach, N.C. -with hurricane force winds and washing up the body of a boy at Morehead City. The boy was the third drowning death reported along the North Carolina-Virginia shore since vicious rip tides moved up the coast this past weekend.

The boy, who was not the jury received room since they the case Friday morning. They deliberated 1214 hours and spent about four hours rehearing testimony presented during the four-week trial. Collins, 23, a former English major, is accused of first- degree murder in the slaying of Miss Beineman. 18, an Eastern Michigan University coed from Grand Rapids, Mich. YARD SALE 5c To Aug.

18 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 501 Plasman Adv. attempting to overturn a decision by the State Board of Canvassers that the proposed amendment is illegally worded. They were represented at today's hearing by Detroit attorney Erwin Ellman, who said the question before the court involved "the integrity of the amendatory process. 'The question is whether it should be given reasonably hospitable scope or be surrounded by booby traps and barricades," he said.

"The statutes cannot be read with such slavish exactness to undermine the purpose of amendatory action." Assistant Attorney General Russell Searle, however, said the petitions are worded so that "you can't tell if this will take the place of or be in addition to current amendments. Searle said the proposal is worded in a way which would conflict with several sections of the Michigan Constitution and that it is therefore not legal because it makes no effort to resolve -these. conflicts. believed to Saturday. Heavy along a surf long identified, was have drowned was occuring stretch of the eastern shore and the Weather Bureau warned swimmers and surfers to stay out of the water.

Winds of 74.9 m.p.h. hit Atlantic Beach at mkl-morning. knocking down trees and power lines, and causing minor waterfront damage. But the worst of the storm appeared to be over in that area by early afternoon. Rains of up to 3M inches hit along a line from Morehead City northward to Cape Hatteras, a distance of about 80 miles.

At noon the Washington Weather Bureau reported the tropical disturbance was located about 40 miles west southwest of Hatteras and was moving northeastward at about 15 m.p.h. NORTHWAY FOODUNE Open Daily 9-9 Sat. 8 A.M.-6 P.M. 145 N. River Adv.

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