St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 44

4C juh 16, 1972 ST. LOUIS POST-OISPATCH Fischer Keeping Chess Title Series In Doubt rights helped to raise the total prize money to $300,000, the richest chess championship in history. Asked if Fischer planned to pack up and go home, Marshal replied: "No. Otherwise I wouldn't be here." level of the cameras and found no difference in the sound in the empty hall with or without the cameras running. The Icelandic organizers had agreed earlier to remove the television and movie cameras, although revenue from the hotel, presumably in quiet observance of the Sabbath his religion recognizes from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday.

The feeling was that Fischer would not play the scheduled third game on Sunday. But no one knew for certain. Marshal arrived Saturday morning, joining another New York lawyer for Fischer, Andrew Davis. Spassky went salmon fishing to get away from it all. Fischer, as usual, was inaccessible.

He was closeted in his Fischer's failure to turn up for his second encounter with the world champion gave Spas-sky a 2-to-0 lead. Spassky needs 12 points to retain the title, Fischer 12Vi to win it. Each game won counts a point. A draw is half a point. Fischer refusing to play flf if-vrT 7 ,1.1.

mmir iy famOuS-barr 9X503 REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Poris a fished for salmon and Bobby Fischer kept his Sabbath Saturday as chess organization officers scrambled to save the world championship. After talks with officers of the International and Icelandic chess federations, i 's lawyer, Paul Marshal, announced that the A i a challenger had withdrawn his objection to presence of movie cameras in the playing hall "so long as they don't blow his mind." Marshal also asked the officers to reconsider their decision to uphold the referee in declaring a forfeit because Fischer missed the second game of the 24-game series Thursday. Fischer boycotted the session, saying the cameras distracted him. Marshal said new evidence was being prepared that might stave off cancellation of the match. He would not say what the evidence was.

game No. 3 Sunday unless the point that the Russian gained by default is scratched from the score sheet. The deadlock seemed unbreakable, but Fischer's attorneys and his second, the Rev. William Lombardy, were trying to find a way out. One officer connected with the International Chess Federation said he thought It was impossible to take the point a way from Spassky.

Fischer boycotted game No. 2 because, he said, the noise from hidden movie cameras created outrageous playing conditions. An engineer tested the noise MEN'S SHORT SLEEVE SHIRTS A nationally advertised make! Every shirt carries the famed label, every shirt is made from a no-iron fabric. These are the newest stylings fashion stripes, figures, and solid shades, with new collar shapes. Short sleeves, to keep you comfortably cool as long as the hot weather lasts.

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Although they were confused MOSCOW, July 13 (AP) -Moscow's park bench chess players used to call him "Bobby." Now it's "Fischer." They used to respect and even privately root for the American who wants the world chess crown. They don't any more. "He's slightly touched in the head," muttered a chess enthusiast as his opponent pondered the next move on a board balanced across a bench. About 6,000,000 Russians take at first, but willing to accept the American's desire for more CHESS; FINNISH STYLE: Chess is played as an outdoor sport during Finnish summers with modem-design pieces weighing eight pounds each. The game can be played as late as 3 a.m.

during this northern country's lengthy summer days. (AP Wirephoto) money, most of the park players now attribute Fischer's lat est demands to fear of defeat at the hands of the world champion. To the accompaniment of his comrades' nodding heads, an el derly Muscovite said, "Fiscner Reports Defense Contractor Made 34,000 Pet. Profit is a i a big hullabaloo about nothing because he thinks he's going to lose an artifi cial alibi in case he needs to justify a defeat." Figure In Disorder Accused Of Assault Terrance Baker, a central figure in a routine traffic summons case that developed into a near riot ri a night, was charged with common assault Saturday. chess seriously and there is a growing feeling among them that Fischer has become downright insulting.

"This is chess, not baseball," one chess fan said. "Fischer's no sportsman." There was only a 1 for Russian Boris Spassky, the world champion, who has waited patiently in Reykjavik, Iceland as Fischer caused delay after delay by his demanding more money, better lighting and removal of movie cameras from the match site. It was Fischer's self-confidence, his individuality and his boasts that he was the world's best chess player that captured the Russians' imagination. Perhaps because he was bored with the knowledge that the world crown had remained in Russian hands for 24 years, the man on the street was not overly distraught when Fischer crushed Russia's Tigran Petro-sian for the right to face Spassky. The prospect of a major Soviet-American confrontation over the chess board was exciting and appealing.

But the a I i a i 0 has turned to disgust. For the park bench players, Fischer is i "sumashed-shy" crazy or scared. Either way, the average Russian privately agrees with his The warrant charged Baker, 25 years old, of 4049 West Pine Boulevard, with biting Patrol man Thomas 1 1 on the hand and tearing off the officer's badge. Schulte and Patrolman Bruce Bonney were targets of stones capital under a new contract." What is needed is "some competition and free enter-prise" in defense procurement, said Proxmire, continuing: "Any taxpayer would be overjoyed to make $17,000,000 on a $50,000 investment, which is 340 times the investment or a 34.0C0 per cent return. Even on an annual basis it is a 17-fold or 1700 per cent return on investment." Sperry Rand said in a statement that Proxmire's conclusions "are not supported by the General Accounting Office report on which he bases his charges." The corporation said that in the 20 years it had managed the plant its compensation had totaled 2.6 per cent of the firms cost of performing the work.

It said the 2.6 per cent, a gross figure, did not include taxes and other expenses. "The Senator," the company said, "has accused Sperry Rand of profiting by misrepresenting its costs, despite the fact that the GAO report contained no such finding." Big Fall, Small In jury RIO DE JANEIRO, Br a i 1, July 15 (AP) A painter fell 10 stories at a construction site, but doctors said an initial examination showed the most se-rious injury was a dislocated finger. Witnesses said the man's fall had been slowed by boards protruding from a and bottles thrown by a crowd WASHINGTON, July 15 (AP) Senator William Proxmire Wisconsin, has accused the Department of Defense of letting the taxpayer be "played for a sucker" by allowing Sper-ry Rand Corp. to reap a 34,000 per cent return on a $50,000 investment. The contract involves the company's production 0 155-mm.

artillery shell casings at its Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant, Shreveport, La. The $71,000,000 plant was built with taxpayer money and Sper-ry Rand invested only $50,000, said Proxmire, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee. From 1951 to 1971, Rand made $17,000,000 profit, Proxmire said. According to a General Accounting Office investigation, Proxmire said, Sperry Rand produced each casing at a reported cost of $29.36 undei a cost-plus contract. When the contract was put up for competitive bidding in 1971, Sperry Rand bid $6.49 below its original reported cost, a reduction of 22 per cent, to win the contract again.

"Although the Army has made some attempts to clean up this mess," Proxmire said in a statement, "it has not gone far enough." In the past, Proxmire continued, Sperry Rand had made "exorbitant profits by misrepresenting its costs. Now, it can continue to make large profits by using free government facilities, materials and operating that had a 1 at 1200 North Eighteenth Street, where Baker was arrested. Shots were fired at a police cruiser taking the prisoner to headquarters. A crowd later appeared at headquarters, charging po lice brutality. Members of the crowd made a complaint to the inspector's office.

15 Years In Iron Lung ADELAIDE, Australia, July 15 (AP) A poliomyelitis pa tient who died recently at the age of 42 had spent the last 15 government-controlled newspapers. For 0 the Soviet press has criticized the American challenger as "a money-grubbing businessman," a chess player who has "a disgusting spirit of gain." "Fischer's nothing more than a capitalist," one bearded player complained. "For him business comes before sports." The news media here have not devoted much attention to years of his life with an iron lung and chest respirator. In his time in the hospital be lieved to be a record he wrote a book describing the ex perience. C.

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Sorry, no mail or phone orders. Budget Stores Men's Furnishings. Charles A. Head, a jailer who learned his trade in the hard old days but later won a reputation as an innovator and reformer, retired Friday from his post as warden at the City Workhouse. Head, 67 years old, was appointed warden in 1965 after 24 years as a Workhouse guard.

By 1966, when the Workhouse was moved from 4200 South Broadway to a new location at 7600 North Hall Street, he had already begun to 1 i i a many of the harsh practices that previously had been common in the handling inmates. Rather surprisingly for an old-timer who had risen through the ranks, he became known as a friend to prisoners. Some a 1 1 him Papa, and some named their children after him. When Head began his apprenticeship at the Workhouse in 1941, guards carried clubs and prisoners spent the hours trans-forming big rocks into little ones for use in paving the city's streets. Inmates were forbidden to speak during meals or in the halls.

Many such rules and practices survived into the mid-1960s, until Head was selected from a civil service list to take charge of the Workhouse. Then they disappeared. 0 a the guards have no clubs "they use their brains instead," Head said recently and inmates may speak when and where they wish. The rock pile is gone, and prisoners work instead in shops where they have at least some chance of learning skills that have value on the outside. Though never a local celebrity.

Head has been in the news with some regularity in the last seven years. Most of his publicity has come, not as a result of uprisings or other problems, but because of new changes in the Workhouse regime. When quoted in the press, Head has invariably spoken turning to the Workhouse. With the Workhouse's Protestant chaplain, Rev. Paul Beins, Head pet up a counseling and rehabilitation program for inmates soon to be 1 a d.

When ahandmade "jugular vein knife" was found in the Workhouse last year, Head said it apparently had been made by prisoners plotting to kill a guard. But he expressed confidence that any such plot was limited to a very small number; of inmates. His confidence in most prisoners, and his interest in their welfare, has not aroused the resentment of guards as penal liberalization sometimes does. "He's a winner, that one," one Workhouse guard said of Head the day after his retirement. "There's no other way to say it." Wallace Hospitalized For More Therapy BIRMINGHAM, July 15 (AP) Alabama Gov.

George C. Wallace has begun four weeks of therapy and training designed to make him physically and occupational independent. Wallace entered Spain Rehabilitation Center in the University of Alabama Medical Center complex Friday after spending nearly eight weeks at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Springs, Md. Wallace suffered a spinal injury in a May 15 assassination attempt at Laurel, Md. He is paralyzed from the waist down.

The Governor, who spent last week at the Democratic national convention in Miami Beach, will remain until he is totally independent, Dr. George Traugh, a specialist in physical medicine, said. RETIRING WARDEN Charles A. Head of the City Workhouse displaying a "jugular vein knife" found in a prisoners' dormitory after a disturbance last year. (Post-Dispatch Photo) In 1969, Head waited two days before informing police that a prisoner had escaped.

Meanwhile he conducted a search of his own, unsuccessfully, hoping to find the escapee and persuade him to return. That same year another prisoner managed to reach Hall Street in an escape attempt after a tower guard shot twice at him and missed. Head pursued the prisoner and, instead of shooting, talked him into re sympathetically of the men in his charge. Repeatedly and characteristically, he a expressed concern about the pres-s that confinement and slow handling of court cases impose upon men who are not hardened criminals. In his years as warden, Head has had a full share of unusual experiences, more than one of which arose out of his unwillingness to take an unnecessarily hard line with prisoners..