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On Tcdjy's Ediiorial Page The State Of The County: Editorial Who Picked The Editorial FINAL Stock Market Down Closing Stock Market Prices Pages 6C and 7C lUIn VOL. 92 NO. 11 1970, st. Louii rost-uisptni MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1970 41 PAGES 10c Horn Delivery $3.60 a Month Price Biafra Gives Up To En Bloodshed ST. LO it' i 'FT a i-M'rw mi taw11' i J'ftv ---Sir-' mm i W4d433 Related article on Page IB From Fost-DIptrh Wire Strvlrts LAGOS, Nigeria, 12 Biafra surrendered today after fighting 30 months in an effort to maintain its secession from Nigeria.

Maj. Gen. Philip Effiong, left in charge in Biafra by Gen. C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, told the nation in a broadcast: "I am convinced now the struggle must be put to an end and stop the bloodshed that is going on He said he ordered a disengagement of Biafran army units and asked commanders to stop fighting.

He appealed to the Nigerian leader, Maj. Gen. Yak-ubu Gowon, for an immediate cease-fire. He said he would apply to federal unit commanders at Bia-fra's edges for conditions. No Rule in Exile Effiong, 45 years old and a member of the Efik minority tribe in Biafra, said: "Any question of a government in exile is repudiated by our people." Airstrip Captured Later, confusion developed over the reported order to surrender.

Eyoma Ita Eyoma, Biafra's envoy to Scandinavia, emerged from a Copenhagen meeting with Danish Prime Minister Hil-mar Baunsgaard and said Ef-fiong's announcement was directed only to Biafran troops still around Owerri, the provisional Biafran capital which fell Sunday. Eyoma said that fighting was still going on between Biafra and federal forces in isolated pockets in what the federal government calls its central region. He said the Nigerians had not applied for a general cease-fire. The surrender broadcast followed the capture by Nigerian federal troops of Uli airstrip, Biafra's last link to the outside world. The strip came under massive air attacks that reduced, its roadbed runway to according to reliable sources in Lagos.

Ojukwu, leader of Biafra in its secession from federal Nigeria, fled yesterday for an undisclosed destination. The Biafran Information Office in Geneva said, however, that Ojukwu had fled to a neutral country and would sue for peace within the next 48 hours. The information bureau said Ojukwu would make his appeal for a cease-fire and a peace settlement in telegrams to world leaders and such international organizations as the Red Cross. The office said he probably would appeal to Pope Paul VI also. American's Statement The statement was issued by H.

William Bernhardt, an American who runs the Geneva office. Bernhardt would not say to which neutral country Ojukwu had fled but there were indications that he might be in A tow moving slowly upstream in the ice clogged Mississippi River past the minesweeper Inaugural moored just south of the Gateway Arch. The river remains blocked by a massive ice gorge about 10 miles south of Chester, III. (Page of additional pictures on front of Everyday Magazine) (Post-Dispatch Photo by Lester Linck) 2 Indicted Over Misuse Of McCormack's Office Ice Slows Navigation Ice gorges in the Mississippi River near Chester and Cairo, refused to budge today. Navigation was at a standstill as cold weather continued in the St.

Louis area-Navigation a possible but arduous through the Alton pool. River vessels were able to travel from St. Louis through the Alton pool up the Illinois River to i a the Army Corps of Engineers said. A foot of ice covered pools behind Corps of Engineers dams on the Mississippi at Winfield and Clarksville. Antoinette and Karen Hayes, residents of the Pruitt-lgoe apartments at 2310 Cass Avenue, waiting for their parents to pick them up yesterday at an emergency center set up at 2401 Dickson Street.

The clock above them stopped when the power went off at the housing project early yesterday morning. (Post-Dispatch Photo by Fred Sweets) Power Partly Restored At Pruitt-lgoe Complex $38,000 in fines for Sweig and 25 years in jail and $27,000 fines for Voloshen. Was Suspended Sweig was suspended by McCormack last Oct. 16 from his job as administrative assistant. Voloshen has been pictured as a lobbyist and friend of McCormack and Sweig who sought influence through the association.

The indictment was announced by Robert M. Morgen-thau, who is to step down Thursday as United States Attorney for New York's Southern District. Morgenthau, a Democrat, has resigned under pressure from the Republican Administration in Washington. He has been appointed deputy mayor here by John V. Lindsay, a registered Republican, and will assume that position next month.

The indictment alleged that Voloshen used the "office, telephone, secretarial staff and good will of the Speaker of the House" to approach Government agencies, including the Bureau of Prisons, U.S. attor- ArbeiterWins Reversal his office to bring pressure against numerous federal agencies in behalf of persons referred to him by Nathan M. Voloshen, the lawyer. Among agencies involved in the six-year course of the alleged conspiracy, the U.S. Attorney listed the Department of Justice, Treasury, Defense, Labor and Post Office and the Selective Service System.

Conviction could carry penalties of 52 years in prison and ment admissible in subsequent criminal proceedings. "The role of the juvenile officer would be changed from that of a person whose function is to promote the welfare of the child to that of a policeman seeking out evidence which might be used against the child in a criminal case. "The considerations of 'fundamental fairness' do not permit the state, in the harsh ad- TURN TO PAGE 8, COL. I Gov. Warren E.

Hearnes said today that he had directed the state civil defense director, James Bash, to immediately investigate the emergency situation at the housing projects. In response to requests by tenant and activist groups that the projects be declared a disaster area, the Governor said that disaster aid was governed by federal criteria and that Bash was to determine what relief if any was available. Groups which had requested the disaster classification included ACTION and the Pruitt-lgoe District Corp. Electric power was disrupted again today at the vast Pruitt-lgoe public housing project, shutting off lights and heat for the second time in two days. Most of the power was resumed several hours later.

About 10,000 residents of the Pruitt-lgoe and Vaughn complex were without electric service for nearly 20 hours yesterday, until water-soaked transformers were repaired shortly before midnight. The first power shutdown was caused by water leaking from water pipes that had frozen and burst. TURN TO PAGE 10, COL. 1 TURN TO PAGE 4, COL. 1 Super Bowl Star 'Aged 3 Years In Week' NEW YORK, Jan.

12 (AP)-A former top aid to House Speaker John W. McCormack and a lawyer-lobbyist were accused today by a federal grand jury of conspiring to use the Speaker's office to influence matters ef Government bodies. The conspiracy, according to the federal prosecutor here, involved Martin Sweig, McCor-mack's suspended senior aid, who was accused of misusing Arbeiter, originally was convicted in St. Louis circuit court of first-degree murder in the fatal knifing of Mrs. Nancy Zan-one and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

That decision was reversed by the State Supreme Court more than a year ago on the ground that the lower court had impro-p 1 admitted into evidence statements made to police officers by Arbeiter when in custody. The high court held then that the statements were inadmissible because the police had failed to comply with Missouri's Juvenile Code which requires that juvenile suspects be taken immediately to juvenile authorities. Subsequently, Arbeiter was retried in circuit court with the juvenile court records subpen-a for introduction as evidence. Arbeiter again was found guilty by a jury and sentenced to 40 years in prison. Brendan Ryan, St.

Louis circuit attorney, said he would decide whether to refile a charge of assault with intent to rob against Arbeiter after studying the Supreme Court decision. The assault charge was dropped after Arbeiter's second conviction. Fred T. Wilkinson, state corrections director, said he likewise would have to study the decision before determining whether Arbeiter should be discharged from the state prison at Jefferson City. Wilkinson said he would confer with Attorney General John C.

Dan-forth. In its i i today, the court declared: "We consider that in light of the objectives of the Juvenile Code and of the procedures of juvenile courts and court offices, the prohibition of our statute should be held to include statements made to a juvenile officer and presented to, and considered by, the court in the disposition of the case. "The (interpretation) urged by the state would permit the juvenile officer to procure the admission of the juvenile in the relaxed, nonadversary atmosphere of the juvenile interrogation and make the state By LOUIS J. ROSE Jefferson City Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch JEFFERSON CITY, Jan. 12 The Missouri Supreme Court today reversed the second-degree murder conviction of Joseph Franz Arbeiter, who had been charged in the death of a St.

Louis woman in 1963. He was 15 years old at the time. In ordering his discharge from the court said that statements given by Arbeiter were inadmissible as evidence and that without them the state lacked sufficient evidence to prove his guilt. 5-Day Forecast: Near Normal Five-day forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Temperatures for the period tomorrow through Saturday will average near to slightly below normal.

Normal highs range from the upper 30s to the. middle 40s. Normal lows range from the upper teens to about 30. Tern- peratures are expected to drop by the weekend, with little chance of preoipitation. Fair, Colder Official forecast for St.

Louis and vicinity: Generally fair and colder tonight with the low 10 to 15; clear to partly cloudy to morrow i the high in the Too Many Chiefs lower 30s. Elmer Hammond, chairman of the Pruitt-lgoe organization, said a formal declaration would release funds to help in the emergency. One Pruitt-lgoe building, which suffered the worst water damage in the living units, was in process of being evacuated when the power went off shortly after 10 a.m. today, and was partly restored at 2 p.m. The rest of hte power was expected to be back on late this afternoon.

Because of the resulting darkness, the work of moving out more than 100 persons from the 23 occupied units was halted. Electrical workers were called in to deal with the latest emergency, the St. Louis Housing Authority said. Yesterday, volunteers from around the St. Louis area had provided assistance to tenants.

The John J. Cochran apartments also had broken water pipes in seven of the 12 buildings, and about 2000 residents were without water until late Sunday afternoon. The response throughout the city to the plight of the public housing tenants was "almost William H. Scha-w a housing director for the authority, said. College students, church members, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army and members of poverty organizations turned out in the emergency, a-wacker said.

Candle Power They brought blankets and food. Others worked by candlelight to help sweep water from halls down stairwells and to throw ice out of upper-floor windows. Schawacker said that a woman, apparently suffering from influenza was removed from her Pruitt apartment to a hospital. However, he said he knew of no other persons who required hospital treatment. Although the temperatures Sunday were at the freezing mark, the residents were spared worse effects as the ex- TURN TO PAGE 3, COL.

4 News Index Page Editorials 2B Everyday Magazine 1-8D Financial 5-SC Obituaries 4B Sports 1-5C Want Ads 4-13B "1 ference Tuesday that he had known Donald (Dice) Dawson, a Detroit restaurateur, for about 10 years. Donald Dawson was one of 14 persons arrested in gambling raids New Year's day. Len Dawson said that the Detroit man had called him last fall to offer sympathy after the quarterback was injured and after his father's death. Pro football authorities had questioned Len Dawson in 1968 when three Kansas City games were taken off the betting board for mysterious reasons. The quarterback was cleared in that inquiry.

Dawson said that before he took the field yesterday, I just prayed to the Good Lord that I'd have the strength and courage to play a good game." He said that part of his inspiration came from President Richard M. Nixon, who had called Chiefs coach Hank Stram before the game and who called Dawson afterward to offer his congratulations. In the pregame call to Stram, the President had told the coach that he knew the gambling rumors were unfounded and he had asked Stram to pass that word along to the players. "He said he knew there wasn't anything to the rumors," Stram said. "He told us to dismiss it from our minds and go out and play like champions." After the President's call to Dawson, the quarterback said: "He told me he had hoped we would do well despite the adversity.

He said that perhaps the youth of America would look up to us and watch what we did in the game." Dawson had spent a restless week and a restless night before the Super Bowl. "Whenever I looked at him it wasn't the relaxed, easy-going Len Dawson that I saw," said Johnny Robinson, who had been Dawson's roommate for the week in New Orleans. "He was tense and he wanted to be in soli-. tude," Robinson continued. "He stayed in the room most of the time, and left only to attend TURN TO PAGE 6, COL.

1 By ED WILKS A Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 12 Len Dawson, quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs, stood on a table in the dressing room after yesterday's Super Bowl victory and attempted to reconstruct his week in a pressure cooker. "It was quite an ordeal," Dawson said softly as he spoke of the strain he had been under because his name had popped up in connection with a Michigan gambling investigation. The Chiefs had come to New Orleans Monday to prepare for football's Super Bowl game with the Minnesota Vikings. On Tuesday, a television report had said that Dawson would be subpenaed as a witness in the gambling inquiry.

Nobody had accused Dawson of anything, but his name was mentioned in the same sentence with the word "gambling" and he was forced to interrupt his preparation for the Super Bowl. At 11 o'clock Tuesday, Dawson held a press conference to explain that he had had a casual acquaintance with a man arrested in the Detroit investigation. The quarterback had been under immense pressure from Tuesday until yesterday afternoon, when the Chiefs won the championship of professional football by defeating the Minnesota Vikings, 23-7. Dawson is 34 years old, but a teammate said, "He aged five years in the last week. You looked into his face and you knew it wasn't the same Len Dawson." The mark of sadness remained on Dawson's face as he stood on the table yesterday, his arm draped about the shoulders of 11-year-old Len and answered questions.

Dawson had overcome a serious knee injury that had sidelined him for six weeks in the regular season. And his father had died midway through the season. The quarterback had said at his press con 1 Temperatures la.m. 30 2 a.m. 30 3 a.m.

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29 POST-DISPATCH WEATHERBIftO a u. pat. orp. Tiller TTeathtr Information on Pe 2A Len Dawson, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, talking with President Richard M. Nixon yesterday after the Chiefs defeated the Minnesota Vikings in the Super Bowl.

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