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47. AlMJClettd Fmi Man Is Found In Bay The body of an East Washington Street man was discovered in Sandusky Bay early this morning. Apparently he had only been in the water a short time. Andrew M. Ricketsen, 62, of 321 ft.

Washington St. was pronounced dead at the scene. No official ruling on the death has been made yet, but preliminary evidence indicates that the cause may have been heart attack. The body was discovered floating inside the east wall at Battery Park this morning at about 5 o'clock. Police and a fire unit were Called for the recovery.

Didn't. Sink The dead man was clothed in pajamas, a blue sweat shirt and trousers. Police theorized that the man dead before hitting the water the body did not sink. A son, Charles Rickertsen of Huron, made identification at the frey Funeral Home. Mr.

Rickertsen had been em- (Continued on Page 1.) Anti-US. Riots In S. Korea SEOUL, Korea (AP) Anti- American demonstrations spread in South Korea today. The U.S. Army ordered American military personnel in the Seoul area restricted to base except for official business.

A U.S. Army, spokesman called the confinement order a "temporary measure reduce the possibility of incidents" in view of the wave of demonstrations demanding the U.S. government sign a status-of-forces agreement giving South Korea court jurisdiction over American servicemen in some instances. About 300 university students defying stern new warnings from South Korea's ruling military junta marched out of Taegu University today in the third demonstration in a week stemming from the alleged beating of a Korean civilian trespasser by two U.S. Army officers last month.

A solid wall of police halted the students about 100 yards from the main gate of the university in South Korea's third largest city, about 200 miles southeast of Seoul. Refusing to withdraw, the squatted-in the street and turned their protest into a ait-down strike. There were no reports of violence. The government announced Friday night that the United States has agreed in principal to resume negotiations toward a atatus-of-forces pact. But it said Washington had raised issues which South Korea "finds difficult to accept." It did not elaborate on these points but said the United States has been asked to reconsider them.

SANDUSKY, OHIO, SATURDAY, JUNI 9, 1t42 S'ISM Met Bad Check Cleans Up Here Driver Falls Out, Chases Car, Climbs Aboard And Speeds Off Lloyd Musick of Castalia fell from his oul-of- control auto after it had hit two other cars, rolled down an embankment, and ploughed through an excavation at the bypass detour on Rt. 250 last night. HE ROLLED over several times, got to his feel, chased his still-moving auto, jumped in, drove it back on the bypass and took off southward at a high rate of speed. That's how it happened last night about fi p.m., according to witnesses and Sheriff's Deputy Al Angney, who charged Musick, 31, Parker Road, with leaving the scene of an accident. MUSICK WAS arrested after his license number was given to Angney by witnesses to the accident.

He posted $300 bond and was released pending his appearance in Sandusky municipal court Monday. ACCORDING to Angney's report, Musick was southbound on the detour when he apparently lost control on a curve and hit a northbound auto driven by Anton C. Erndt, Mansfield; bounced off and hit another oncoming car driven by Rose E. Paul, 45. also of Mansfield.

Mustek's auto tumbled over an embankment and the driver fell from the car. Then came the remarkable chase, recovery of the runaway" vehicle and temporary escape, according to (he deputy's report. MUSICK SUSTAINED minor cuts and bruises, according to Angney. The other drivers were unhurt. Franco Gets Tough MADRID (AP) Plagued by bombings and cripppling strikes, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's regime today suspended for two years the Spanish' people's RIDING HIGH over Cedar Point midway Register Photographer Kenneth Eckler snapped this picture of resort's new Sky Ride.

The $300,000 innovation takes thrill-seekers on a' flight some 90 feet above ground. Swiss-made ride was officially opened today. 'Civil Disobedience" Campaign Hailed SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-Thirty- 'two nuclear-test objectors spent the night in custody, apparently pleased by the outcome of their defiance of the government in the federal court contempt case involving the crew of the Everyman. Spokesman Happy Roger Moss, a spokesman for the Committee for Non-Violent Action, sponsor of the demonstrators, commented: "It was extremely the largest civil disobedience campaign in the bay area three times as large as expected." The peace pickets had to be carried out of the U.S. Post Office Building, which houses fed- Marilyn Sacked By Studio That Found Her HOLLYWOOD (AP) -Marilyn Monroe is out of work today- fired by the same studio that tnade her a star.

The sacking, which caught almost no one by surprise, came Friday only hours after Marilyn Ohio's Hopping Frogs Go AWOL TOLEDO (AP) Ohio's three entries in the recent international frog hopping competition in California are missing. Nothing has been heard of Rocky the Rocket and Roxauoe, both of Toledo, and Fustoria's Jet III since the big Calaveras County Olympics three weeks ago, Protests to Mayor Vrle T. Minto of Angel's Camp. site of the event, have brought no respouse. Local sponsors are fearful that their entries were frog- napped or evea notified 20th Century-Fox that she was "ready and eager to return to work Monday morning." But the studio wasn't impressed and called in Lee Remick to tajte over.

In another development, the studio announced it had begun legal action against Marilyn to recover $500,000 allegedly lost as a result of the star's frequent absences from the set. Marilyn's absentee record included five performance days in seven weeks of shooting for the movie "Something's Got To Give." The picture now is 32 days behind schedule and more than $2 million in debt because of Marilyn's no-show. "It's sad." said one front-office executive. "But no studio these days can afford to have Liz Taylor and Marilyn Monroe working at the same time especially a studio that lost $25 million last year." Miss Taylor's absences from the set have helped run the cost of "Cleopatra" to $30 million all-time high in movie costs. eral courts here, after the contempt convictions of Harold Stallings, 30, Menlo Park, Evan D.

Yoes 30., Berkeley, and Edward Lazar, 27, New York City. Go To Jail U.S. Dist. Judge William T. Sweigert sentenced each to ,10 days in jail for trying to sail the three-hulled Everyman to the Christmas Island nuclear testing grounds against a court order.

The trio was arrested and the sailboat seized outside the Golden Gate May 26. The picketing sympathizers of the three defendants had been warned they were violating the law by remaining in the building Friday but no action was taken other than to carry their limp forms to the street on stretchers. Men, Women, Kids When they entered the building a second time, through another entrance, the arrests promptly followed. There were 20 men, 5 women and 7 juveniles. They are charged with obstructing a U.S.

marshal iu the performance of his duties and could be punished with 30-day jail terms and-or $50 fines. SHARING a bucket on new ride are Cedar Point general manager Eugene Lemmon (left) and Othon M. Goeti, Swiss consul in Cleveland. The ride, made in Berne, Switzerland, is twice as high as the one in Disneyland. (Register Photo Kenneth Eckler) Hypnotic Testimony Beats Murder Charge COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)-After hearing murder defendant Arthur Nebb, 38, testify under hypnosis, Franklin County Prosecutor Earl Allison said he was convinced Nebb' did not kill intentionally.

Thus ended Nebb's trial Friday VITAL STATISTICS MARRIAGE APPLICATION Walter J. Heishman, 19, U. S. Navy, and Patricia I. Smith, 18, student, both Sandusky.

Richard 11. Hoffman, salesman, and Marian Snook, credit manager, both Sandusky. John A. Beursken 19, stock clerk and Linda L. Wiencke, 19, secretary, both Vermilion.

MARRIAGE MCINSI Lawrence V. Varnadoe, 27, U. S. Air Force, Cleveland and Virginia Ann Chess, 29, teacher, Vermilion. MEMORIAL Mr.

and Mrs. Robert man, 2339 Sadler son. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hohman, Rt.

1. Milan, daughter. PROVIDENCE Mr. and Mrs. Norman Thomas, 132 E.

Oneida Trail, Bay View, son. GOOD SAMARITAN Mr. and Mrs. Anthony LaPa- ta, 1312 Central daughter. Mr.

and Mrs. Delbert Neill, 605 Jay son. DEATHS Percy G. McGeachie, 76, W. Osborne St.

Rickertsen, 529 E. Washington St. William V. Midgett." -H. Wiimebago Ave.

Albert Burggraf, 117 Depot Castalia. 1221 62, 623 on a first-degree murder charge. After the highly unusual testimony, Judge Joseph Harter permitted Nebb to plead guilty to reduced charges of manslaughter and aggravated assault. He then sentenced him to concurrent terms of 1-20 and 1-5 years in Ohio Penitentiary. While under hypnosis, Nebb told the court he did not remember seeing Estell Stepp, 25, of Inez, the man he was accused of killing.

He said his estranged wife Bernice, grabbed the gun after he fired the first shot and that he remembered shooting her. She has since recovered. The jury was removed from the room and not previously told the defendant was to be hypnotized. Nebb was placed under hypnosis by a court-hired psychiatrist, Dr. T.

R. Huxtable of the Oliio Juvenile Diagnostic Center. Judge Harter approved the request for the unusual maneuver submitted by defense attorneys, saying "if we don't allow such examination as this we'll never make any progress; we'll never determine what can accurately and safely be sub- milted to a jury." constitutional right to choose where they want to live in Spain. Under the sweeping edict, the government can control the movement of anyone opposed to Franco and keep agitators out of industrial centers hit by a seven- week siege of strikes that paralyzed mines and key factories. The in Spain- dropped off sharply late last month after the government promised some-p workers pay boosts of up to 50 per cent.

Franco's cabinet approved the decree suspending a key clause in Spain's bill of rights a few hours after the second bomb incident in three days rocked the Banco Popular, a big financial institution in the heart of Madrid. Police blamed the left-wing Popular Liberation Front for the bombings winch shattered windows in the bank and caused other damage. They were linked to recent strikes. The cabinet pointed up the decree with an announcement which said: "The campaigns which from outside are being made to harm (Continued on Page 1.) Close Out Billies Publishing House EL PASO, Tex. (AP)-Federal Dist.

Judge R. E. Thomason has ordered the sale of a daily newspaper and a farm implement company owned by Billie Sol Estes. The two properties are the first of the Pecos, financier's many enterprises to be put up for sale since he placed his fertilizer, cotton and grain storage empire in voluntary receivership on April 7. Judge Thomason said Friday Tears Flow As 'Queen' Is Buried SACRAMENTO, Calif.

(AP)Annie Adams, queen of the gypsies, was buried Friday in a colorful, tearful ceremony at a Sacramento cemetery. A small band of mourners followed her silver casket on the 50-mile ride from a Stockton church to Sacramento. Queen Annie died Monday in Stockton after 10 years of being spiritual leader, supreme court and chief counselor to the nation's gypsies. She was 87. Information about her marital status is sketchy, Some ers said her husband is dead.

Others said he still lives in Southern California. One mourner said gypsies probably will gather somewhere in the next two months to interview candidates to succeed. Queen Annie. AS WE GO TO PRESS 5-Year-Old Five-year-old David B'air has been found dead in a locked refrigerator in a vacant house at Pomeroy. Ohio.

Guard Nuclear Sub The British Royal Navy has moved to reinforce hundreds of special police against demonstrators threatening to immobilize the U.S. nuclear submarine depot ship Proteus, based in Holy Loch, Scotland. Doing It The Hard Way American Fred Baldasare, daring treacherous currents and sharks, today swam the hazardous Strait of Messina under water. He made the unprecedented submarine crossing of the strait in three hours and 42 minutes. the Pecos Daily News; founded by Estes in 1961, will be sold at public auction Monday from the doorway of the newspaper's one-story, white stucco building in Pecos.

Harry Moore, court-appointed receiver for Estes, will be the auctioneer. Moore also will offer for sale; Monday the Estes-owned Fort Stockton, Implement a distributor of farm machinery. Advertisements asking for bids on the company had been published earlier and the company will not be placed on (he auction block. Meanwhile, a grand jury at Franklin, has subpoenaed Estes as a witness for next Wednesday. The grand jury is investigating the death of Henry H.

Marshall, a federal farm official who had been investigating Estes' dealings in cotton acreage allotments. Marshall was chief of production adjustment for the State Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Office. As such he was in charge of the cotton allotment program in Texas. He was found dead June 3, 1961, on his farm near Franklin. He had been shot five times with a bolt-action .22 caliber rifle, had a bruise on his forehead and had inhaled a near-fatal dose of carbon monoxide.

His death was ruled a suicide. A special grand jury was convened at Franklin three weeks ago to re-examine the case after it was revealed that at the time of his death Marshall was looking into Estes' cotton allotments. Banks, Stores Losers A "team" of bad check passers struck In the Sandusky area yesterday and by the time the gang had departed they had cashed at least 16 stolen checks totaling nearly The three men have also hit Toledo, Port Clinton and Fremont, pccordinir to the police investiia- tion. An all northwest Ohio police alert has been broadcast for the men. The first complaint came at about 2 p.m.

when Marian Vettel at the Kroner Store called police to report a man had just tried to cash an $80 check from the tot- ledo Industrial Fabricating Cb Turned Down She said she bad been advised by her home office to be on the lookout for any checks from the, comnanv. She refused the man. The attempted passer was described as being about 5 feet inches tall, dark, heavy set and well dressed. He produced an Ohio driver's license identifying himself as Anthony Russo of Putnam Sandusky. Shortly thereafter a second man tried to cash a $130 check at Pick- but he also He was described as being about 45 years old, 6 feet tall, heavy set, sunburned and well dressed.

He identified himself with an operator's license made out to Richard or Robert Cox of Hancock St. Merchants Check Pick-n-Pay manager, Ross Rut- Icdge. contacted several other merchants to see if the man had tried to cash any checks them. Fisher Foods said the same man had been refused earlier. The merchant's alert was immediately broadcast and all banks were warned.

'Sandusky police contacted Toledo police for information on the trio since the checks bore the name of a Toledo company. Blank Licenses Stolen Toledo confirmed that a number of checks had been stolen in a recent burglary as well as 100 blank Ohio driver licenses. At in the afternoon Western Security bank informed local police it had taken in four of the (Continued on Page Col. 4.) Golf Course Heart Attack Proves Fatal William V. Midgett, 44, 623 Winnebago died Friday night in Good Samaritan Hospital shortly after apparently suffering a heart attack while playing golf at the Mills Creek Golf Course.

Mr. Midgett was substituting on a Ford Motor Co. league team when taken ill. Mike Fritz, course pro, when informed of Mr, Midgett collapsing, called a Frey Ambulance and notified the hospital to have a physician meet the ambulance. Mr.

Midgett served with the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II and later was employed as a machinist at the Sandusky Ford plant. He was a member of the Methodist Church in Rodanthe N.C.: Sandusky Moose Lodge and the Toolmakers Union. Surviving are his widow, the former Viola Pratt; a daughter. Mrs.

Omar Meyer III. Catawba Cliffs; two granddaughters; father and stepmother. Mr and Mrs. W. J.

Midgett. Rodanthe. N.C.; a sister, Mrs. Elma Torge, Jacksonville, two brothers, Valton Portsmouth and J. Midgett Washington, DC.

and several nieces and nephews. Friends may call at Quick 's Funeral Home from 7 to 10 pm. today. The body will then be taken to the Twiford Funeral Home, Rodanthe, for funeral services and burial..