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Buried on German Battlefield People Body of GI Missing 32 Years Finally Found field of unexploded ammuni- prisoner of war, but no trice of tion. him was found and the Army Amy Carter Physically Fit The discovery followed years listed him as killed in action. BUFFALO. Y. (UPI) United States for burial next The body of an American Army Tuesday, private, who disappeared 32 Pfc.

Francis N. Dempfie's veers ago during a wintry as- body was discovered earlier sault on German military po-v- thrryear by a German crew sition. will be shipped to the clearing a World War II battle Then, on Jan. 2, 1977, Carlton of searching by the soldier's now 80-year-old mother, Jennie Dempfle. and another son.

Car -that Dempfle probably lost bis way and froze to death. "It was a complete shock but a relief after all those years of not knowing." Mrs. Dempfle said. "I was sort of numb, because that is such long time it's something you don't believe for a day or two." The remains will be shipped to the United States for burial next Tuesday in Elmlawn Cemetery in the town of Tona-wanda. N.Y.

P7 fj 3 4 fifo was called to Aachen from Frankfurt where be was working. He was told that his brother's remains had been found. The with that of another soldier, was identified through dog tags and dental charts. Authorities said there were no signs of bone damage and lton, bow 46. Mrs.

Dempfle said she "never lost hope" of finding out what happened to ber son. Carlton moved to Germany after the war and took a job with the U.S. Army. He was followed by his mother and five Antitrust Suit Pits ITT Against WASHINGTON- Amy Carterwon. a physical fitness award this week.

With President Carter in attendance, his 9-year-old daughter stepped forward to accept the award as part of ceremonies closing the Stevens School extended program. The 90-minute program consisted of several musical numbers and a dance exercise It was held at Francis Junior High School near Stevens. Reporters and photographers were barred because Carter wished to attend as a father, not as a president He'd Rather Ranch HOLLYWOOD Steve Ford, son of former President Gerald Ford, has called off plans to star in a television series, according to a family spokesman. Young Ford signed a contract earlier this year with Quinn-Martin Productions, maker of many top ranked TV shows. The wnpany said Fdrd would appear in 'a ItJhtemporary series playing a rodeo per" former, to be shown over NBC this fall," nroritrtinff he wnulH "hportmp a mainr world's largest conglomerate with $11 billion in assets spread over a panoply of interests, against the world's largest communications company with some $86 billion in assets.

The Justice Department in 1974 filed an antitrust suit that in essence sought to break up but that case is expected to last for vears. ITT charged the subsidiaries with' violating the Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts by refusing to buy telephone equipment from other suppliers even when it had been proven technically superior to and cheaper than equipment provided by Bell. NEW YORK (UPI) The world's largest conglomerate is suing the world's largest communications company for $150 million, charging antitrust violations in the sale of telephone equipment. International Telephone and Telegraph initiated the battle of the corporate behemoths Friday, filing suit against American Telephone and Telegraph and two subsidiaries. Tne suit fflea In U.S.

District Court in Manhattan alleged that and! the subsidiaries, Western Electric Co. and Bell Laborataries combined to prevent ITT from selling telephone equipment to The court action pits ITT, the years ago. the pair toured tne battlefield near the German-Belgian border asking townspeople if they had any information that might help in their, search for Francis. The family learned that the young soldier had participated in an assault on four German pillboxes in December, 1944. Shortly before the battle, Dempfle tii reported a pain in his side, but he refused to be, evacuated for medical treatment, a family spokesman said.

However, during the assault, he collapsed in pain, and was ordered to an aid station. He never was seen alive again and his body never was found. On Jan: 2. 1945, a telegram informed the family that Dempfle was missing in action. After, the war ended, they hoped he would turn up as a Crane Falls, Kills 4 Trying To Rescue Man CLYMERS.

Ind. (UPI) A rescue attempt for a sick grain elevator worker turned Into tragedy Friday as four persons were killed when a construction crane fell on them as they watched the activities. The accident occurred at the Indiana Grain Div. oLthe- Farm Bureau Co-op. The victims ware identified late Eriday as Paul Homburg, 37.

of near tVJsport; Cyfcins, 54, Memphis, Tenn. David C. Schoeff Warren. and Van Sage, 19, Bluffton. Authorities said all four were on the ground watching the rescue operation in which five persons, including the ill worker, were being lowered 20 feet' when the accident occurred.

The officials said the worker who was rescued complained of becoming dizzy while working inside the corn-filled silo that was being emptied through a hole near the top. Five coworkers were raised to the hole about 20 feet above ground and removed the sick employe. But as the five were being lowered, the crane tipped over. Authorities said the equipment's supports apparently were not in place. television But the spokesman said Ford decided against a TV career because he wants to concentrate on his main interests ranching, training horses and learning rodeo skills.

DAD AND DAUGHTER Prwident Jimmy Coder occomponiw daughter Amy after attending on end-of-school program. (UK) 3 Agent 99 Takers Wife Automakers Get More Time To Pollute Air LOS ANGELES Actor Don Adams, who played bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart on the "Get Smart" television series, was Friday to Michelle Judy Luciano. 26, an actress from Montana. Miss Luciano's pearl-encrusted wedding dress was modeled after an 18th century gown worn in the movie. "The Prisoner of Zenda." a spokesman said.

It is her first marriage and the third for Adams. Delay on Saccharin Ban Urged Lerner Married Again Alan. Jay Lerner. the Broadway and Hollywood lyricist and book writer, was married for the seventh time last week. The 57-year-old Lerner's new wife is Nina Bushkin.

daughter of Joey Bushkin, the jazz pianist, trumpeter and composer. Mrs. Lerner. who is in her 20s, is director of development at the Mannes College of Music in New York. She and her husband, whose work has included "My Fair Lady," and "Gigi." were married May 30 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Heads Boy Scouts Downing B. Jenks, board chairman of the Missouri Pacific was elected president of the Boy Scouts of America Thursday. Jenks. a volunteer in scouting since 1954, will direct the program for 3.6 million Cub. Boy and Explorer Scouts and their 1.3 million leaders.

3 Bettv Ford Trustee ceeded in warding off crippling amendments. Muskie did. however, go along with a key compromise that gave industry an extra year in which to meet pollution standards originally set for 1976 in the 1970 act. but never met by the automakers. Company officials said the standards could not be met and former UAW President Leonard Woodcock said it could cost the jobs of thousands of auto workers if Congress insists industry do so.

Both joined in lobbying the Senate through the three days of debate. The compromise of Senate Republican ieader Howard Baker retained the 1980 deadline for reducing nitrogen oxide pollutants. But it raised the limit on hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide pollutants to a level acceptable to industry. WASHINGTON (UPI) -New clean air legislation passed by the Senate Friday will give the nation's auto makers until 1980 to meet exhaust pollution controls they were supposed to have met last year. But (he bill, passed 73 to 7, is still short of what company officials and the United Auto Workers wanted and the fight is not yet over.

A proposal to delay tougher emission controls until 1982 is in a House bill passed earlier and the issue will be addressed again in a House-Senate conference. The bill amending the Clean Air Act of 1970 passed easily after three days of debate in which Chairman Edmund Mus-kie. D-Maine. of the Senate environment subcommittee, suc similar to those for cigarettes. -with no television or radio advertising permitted.

"In addition no product containing saccharin should be sold in vending machines, where warnings could not be effectively used and where children are likely to be heavy users." Paul Rogers, proposed an 18-month delay one week ago. But Rogers, while calling for upgraded warning labels, did not suggest a ban on vending machine sales or broadcast advertising. FDA Commissioner Donald Kennedy said he still objects, as he did when Rogers made his proposal, to congressional interference with FDA on a product-by-product basis. But he said if it happens, prefers the additional safeguards" in the Massachusetts Democrat's bill. that is now unable to accommodate itself to a situation that could not have been anticipated." Kennedy said Friday.

"In essence, saccharin is unique because the lessons from science are not clear; in this situation, the judgment of any informed citizen is as valid as the judgment of any scien-tist." Saccharin's largest food use, about 80 per cent, is in diet soft drinks. Tne FDA wants to ban all food use effective late this summer but allow the chemical to be sold in raw form as a nonprescription drug for home or tabletop use! provided manufacturers can demonstrate it has some medical value. "The advertising of products containing saccharin." Kennedy said, "should always include a prominently displayed warning. Restrictions ought to be Democrats To Delay 1978 Mini-Convention WASHINGTON (UPI) -Say, ing a consumer's judgment probably is as good as a scientist's. Sen.

Edward Kennedy is proposing an 18-month delay on the saccharin ban accompanied by advertisemenj limits on saccharin-dosed products. "The current dilemma is a rare example of a good and necessary law. drafted years ago, British in Uganda Face Restrictions NAIROBI. Kenya (UPI) -Uganda has clamped the most severe set of. restrictions on British Tesidents in the country's history, barring them from meeting or traveling in groups of more than three.

A military spokesman warned Friday the 300 Britons living in the east African nation would be immediately arrested and thrown into prison if they defied the new orders. The announcement followed the arrest of a British-born businessman on espionage charges and the imposition of a ban on Britons leaving the country until -President Idi Amin personally decided their future. Uganda said it would execute the businessman, identified by his employers as Bob Scanlon, the father of three children, by firing squad within a matter of days. He was arrested a few days ago and was being held in a "remote part" of Uganda awaiting trial by a military tribunal. Diplomatic observers said Amin.

currently enjoying a week-long break from affairs of state, was applying the new restrictive measures against the 1 PALM DESERT. Calif. Dolores Hope, wife of comedian Bob Hope and chairman of the board of trustees of the Eisenhower Medical Center, has announced that fbrmer first lady Betty Ford has been made a trustee. Mrs. Ford and her husband moved to the nearby Palm Springs area when he left the presidency and are building a home there.

Mrs. Ford has been a patient at the hospital several times for treatment of chronic arthritis and a pinched nerve in her neck. Court Rejects Suit NEW YORK An appellate court has rejected a $12 million invasion of privacy suit brought by the family of a bank robber who served as the model for the prd-tagonist in the movie "Dog Day Afternoon." The state Supreme Court's Aapellate Division has found there was no basis for the suit because none of the true names or pictures of the bank robbers was used in the movie or subsequent bard- and soft-cover books based on the film. "This fact rendered any possible claim for invasion of privacy fatally defective," the five-member court held. The suit was brought by Mrs.

Carmen Wojtowicz on behalf of herself and her two daughters. Carmen and Dawn, seeking $12 million ih damages for invasion of privacy- Acid: A Bad Trip LOS ANGELES LSD moved her further out of society's bounds, Leslie Van Houten testified at her second murder trial for the deaths of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca Miss Van Houten, 27. said she and other followers of convicted murderer Charles Manson took the drug about once a week to gain insights into music and the Bible. "I found the more I took acid (LSD), the more removed 1 became from society," she told the jury. "It's like once you take it, you never know where you're going to end up next day in your mind." lier, and making it a workshop for congressional campaign workers.

The committee voted to hold it after the election and, because that means it would have to fall between Thanksgiving and Christmas if it is to be held in 1978. there was talk about holding it in March of 1979. The committee agreed the convention should be held in a state that has ratified the Equal Rights Amendment, and a tentative list of 36 cities was WASHINGTON (UPI) -Democrats have decided to put off their, 1978 mini-convention until after next fall's congressional elections, and in fact may not have the session until early 1979. The executive committee of the Democratic National Committee decided in a four-hour session Friday the convention should be the launching pad for the 1980 presidential election presumably President Carter's bid for re-election. There had been talk about holding it ear Beatle Is Divorced One of the former Beatles, George Harrison, and his wife, Patti, were granted a divorce in London Thursday on the uncontested ground that they had lived apart for more than two years.

They had been married 10 years. Real Sibling Rivalry Filial fidelity aside, James and Harry Morey think differently when it comes to politics, and so they're locked in combat for the one vacant seat of the Berkeley Township committee in New Jersey. "Well, this is a democracy and we were both brought up to be free thinkers," said the Democrat, James, who is the incumbent. The Republican Morey, Harry, said, "My brother and I have different ideas -about how to accomplish things, but we both feel alike." At any rate, the brothers have pledged that theirs will be a clean campaign. Humphrey Is Honored NEW YORK The Union of American Hebrew Congregations has announced the creation of the Hubert H.

Humphrey Institute at its Religious Action Center in Washington, C. Alexander Ross, chairman of the Joint Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, made the announcement at the Reform Jewish Appeal dinner and said the- -institute will provide ah annual Consultation of Conscience. The Minnesota Democrat said he was "deeply moved bythejstablishmentjf the Institute." State May Sue If HEW Imposes Medicaid Fine INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) -Indiana apparently will sue the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare if it proceeds with its announced intent to penalize the state $1.2 million July 1. State Welfare Administrator Wayne Stanton made the comment after returning Friday from Washington where he reviewed the data on which the penalty was announced by.

HEW. He said it was based on a claim Indiana did not review Medicaid patients in the George Ade Memorial Hospital at Brook during the January-March quarter of 1976. "We did not go to that hospital because there were no Medicaid patients there in that quarter and no one for us to inspect." Stanton said. "Neither is there any Medicaid expense for that hospital for that quarter." Stanton said he does not expect HEW to go ahead with imposition of the penalty. "We have not lost a penny yet in penalties although they have issued news releases saying they would." he said.

"I told them either give us a hearing or take the money so we can take them to court on it." Art by April Ford At Commons Gallery Paintings and lithographs of Indiana artist April Ford will be exhibited and available for sale Monday through June 30 at The Commons. The exhibit will open with a party from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday at the Commons. Refreshments will be served and music wilt by North Vernon musician-composer Carroll DeCamp The public is invited to attend and meet the artist. APRIL FORD British missionaries and businessmen as a deliberate act of revenge for being banned from attending the Commonwealth conference in London.

OlptomaTRTbbsetvers "said" the restrictions were the most severe against foreign residents in Uganda's history. 4 dio in an old railroad station house. Bom in Wisconsin. April Ford educated in Milwaukee public schools and attended the Chicago Art Institute five years. Other exhibitions of her works include a show in 1966 at oeyniOUr Art DePauw University; group 0 show transit gallery in 1971 and JrreVieW btt Commonwealth Leaders Go to ScotlanHKPrivate Talks For Sunday SEYMOUR Swope Art Gal urn at tne Chicago Art in-.

stitute: show in 1974 at Lord" and Taylor Gallery and local shows. Private art collectors in Washington. DC, Paris, LONDON (UPI) Commonwealth leaders, pledging Support for American and British efforts to negotiate the tran- ifinn in mqifirittf PIiIa Iff! PhV lery here will hold a preview of sculptured art Sunday from 2 to After marriage she moved to an Indiana farm and became the mother of six children. In recent years she commuted to Chicago, where she utilized the workshop facilities of the art int. stitute to produce her lithographs.

She is completing an art stu- ain might ultimately help the guerrillas with weapons and "I don't think so," he said. f' We should concentrate on trying to bring about a negotiated settlement." more contentious problems, among them whether they should give help in arms and money to nationalist guerrillas in Rhodesia and Namibia. Another issue expected to stir a row is New Zealand's refusal to ban its sports teams from competition in South Af ica. Rome, New York CityL Dobbs 5 n.m tit ir; 1 1 a Ferrv. N.Y.: Ridgefield.Conn.; The sculptured art will be Los Angles, and Toronto also Include her art work.

Jesia. interrupted their formal Jummit Saturday to journey to Scotland for two days of secret. hiph-level talks. black Lommonweaun leao- After watching Queen Elizas jeth's birthday parade in Lon- ers nave threatened 10 Doycou looHor. or nexi year Lommonweaun Games in Edmonton.

Canada Possible! mit'si .1 New Zealand does not join in Decause tne com or tne una wont go II tar a it used---- -t 4 .1 lJK run mniiu miiw more ror your af Uieil uuytuu ui outuii nuiiau flying to Scotland to continue their talks privately, without Jven their foreign ministers or other senior officials, at Gle-Seagles. a luxury hotel and gclf Jourse near Perth. teams. our savings and loan. You need the highest return for what you can spare to ave.

And that' why we provide the highest interest rates on savings accounts, allowed by regulation. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said Friday By ROBERT SCHULLER Community Church Pastor Garden Grove, Calif. dMIlg auvdllwigc ui uic hi- -j 'that although Canada has in- Maybe wt can eliminate the problem completely. But one of our high return Jence of all officials, press offi- vested heavily in preparations more iers and reporters, the for the games, ne aoes noi laxe savings accounts can make you comfortable. Try us, Don't Fear Greatness tommonwealth leaders were the boycott threat joo irag available for loan, as art prints have been in the past, on a 4-week basis beginning Monday.

June Kulow, director of the Jibrarysaid "We'Ye tried to satisfy all tastes by previewing sculptures from different countries, cultures, styles and time periods." There are 19 pieces in the initial collection of replicas. In addition, special invitations have been sent to local sculptors inviting them to exhibit some of their work." The preview is open to the 'public. DeLap Attends -Capital Forum Kenneth DeLap of Sieco, was among 300 participants at a 2-day legislative forum at Washington, D.C., focusing on issues of concern to the engineering profession. The Engineers' Public Affairs Forum, sponsored by 20 engineering societies, is the first such comprehensive program of overview sessions and specialty workshops devoted to engineers and national legislation affecting their profession. expected to tackle some of theiiJcally.

tnnlhern Africa and the hreakdown of the Paris North- Don't be afraid to become the per son you want to be. Affirm the God-like possibilities you see in yourself, Do not even acknowledge the shivers of weakness that tempt you to. run, to retreat and to withdraw. God calls each of us to be clim-' bers, not coasters. And when you are faced with the impossible, remem-ber: "For with God, all things are pos- Are you suffering from the Jonah Complex? Abraham Maslow uses this term to Describe the tendency we all have to flee from growth-producing situations.

Every one of us has the impulse to improve, to develop and to utilize our full potential. But we also have the opposing impulse that causes us to want to coast or quit. Maslow calls this, a fear of our. own greatness. We want to evade our Jjorden Plans lusic Festival BORDEN Borden will hold 9 free outdoor bluegrass mini-festival at 7 p.m.

next Saturday at the Borden ball park, The event, sponsored by the Borden Bluegrass Association, Slso will include a fish fry. Acoustic instruments only will fiprmitted during the festival ajid no alcoholic beverages will be allowed. Persons are toake lawn chairs forjheir sgating. South dialogue between rich Jand poor nations dominated the London talks. Black Commonwealth leaders Friday pressed Britain to give aid to black guerrilla groups in their war against Rhodesia.

But they, also agreed to support the British-American effort to negotiate a peaceful trahser of power to black majority rule by 1978. Prime Minister James Cal-laghan was asked whether Brit- SAVTIGS L0JL1 ASSOCIATION downtown and 2 1 1 7-25th street HI Um Hate 6t Aft. la..

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