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On Today's Editorial Page A Matter Of Responsibility: Editorial Day Care Alternative: 'Editorial a SILO POST PATCH FINAL VOL. 94 NO. 63 1972, St. Loals Post-Dispatch SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1972 18 PAGES 10 Home Delivery jFW Hunting Witness In ITT-GOP In iiiry son said the FBI had been in-contact with him about Mrs. Beard's whereabouts.

Kleindienst, Mitchell's deputy for the last three years, has denounced the memorandum as completely false in sworn testimony at the committee hearings, which began two days ago. Kleindienst's nomination succeed Mitchell had been approved by a 16-to-0 vote of the committee last week, but a Senate vote on confirmation is being help up until the investigation has been concluded. The hearings are in recess until Tuesday, when Kleindienst, U.S. District Judge Richard W. McLaren, former head of the Department of Justice's antitrust division, and Felix Rohatyn, an ITT director, are to return for further questioning.

They are the only witnesses heard so far. Eastland hoped to finish their testimony yesterday, but Kennedy said he had not finished his examination of them and wanted them recalled. McLaren, like Kleindienst, testified that the settlement of suits against ITT's acquisition of the Hartford Fire Insurance Canteen Corp. and Grinnell Corp. had no relation to any pledge of financial help for the GOP convention.

McLaren, now a judge in Chicago, said he had negotiated what he called an effective settlement that let ITT keep Hartford Fire but required it to divest itself of Canteen Corp part of Grinnell and some other companies it had acquired. Altogether, he testified, the settlement forced ITT to give TURN TO PAGE 7, COL 5 WASHINGTON, March 4 (AP) With most of the witnesses yet to be heard in a Senate Judiciary Committee investigation, final action on Richard G. Kleindienst's nomination to be Attorney General faces an indefinite delay. One key witness, Mrs. Dita D.

Beard, Washington lobbyist for Internation'al Telephone Telegraph has dropped out of sight. More than a score of Federal Bureau of Investigation agents are reported searching for her, concentrating on the Denver area. Senator Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy Massachusetts, said the hearing into charges linking settlement antitrust suits against ITT to a financial commitment to Republican national convention in San Diego should not be closed until the committee heard Mrs. Beard's testimony.

Committee Chairman James O. Eastland, Mississippi, has indicated that he does not believe the hearings can be concluded without exhausting every effort to find the woman lobbyist. Eastland has issued twosub- PLANE CRASH SITE: Seventeen persons were killed, including one occupant of a house, when a Mohawk Airlines turboprop airplane crashed in a residential section of Albany, N.Y. The pilot radioed that he was having engine trouble just before the crash last night. An inquiry into the cause of the crash is under way.

(UPI Telephoto) Plane Hits House; 17 Deuel couldn't believe she was alive." Sonya Krakower was shaking with terror in the hall of her home next door, a few feet from the shattered living room window where the plane's wing to rest. "We grew accustomed to the planes flying over," she said. "We knew we were in the flight path. We'd sit outside in the summer and joke about it sometimes. It would really look like they were going to land in the pack yard." Along her driveway, where a temporary morgue had been set up, blood stained the snow.

"It finally happened," she said. neighbor. "That's all we know." Dumas said that the bottom of the plane was gone but that the top and sides were there. "I had to crawl in on my knees," he said. "We picked the seats up one at a time and helped them out." The Rev.

Joseph Romano, chaplain for the Albany fire department, said he was there when the fuselage was cut open. "They lifted up the first piece of metal and a young man of about 30 crawled out he was alive," Romano said. "A young girl was crying, and she kept saying over and over she partner, "and the next thing they knew, they were in the back yard." The four members of Joseph Rosen's family were taken to a hospital for treatment of cuts and shock. The plane clipped treetops on the east side of the street, plunged through the front of the Rosen's two-story house, and the nose emerged from the back side of the dwelling. "They come in so low all the time," one area resident said, "I didn't pay any attention to it, and then I heard the crash." "We heard a whistle and a eras said Fred Paul, a Peking Assails U.S.

In UN penas for her, and it was at his request that FBI agents were assigned to look for her. Committee sources said Mrs. Beard had telephoned a Wash-i doctor from Denver seeking a prescription for heart trouble. A confidential memorandum attributed to Mrs. Beard linked an out-of-court settlement of the antitrust cases to a pledge by the Sheraton Hotel subsidiary of ITT to help San Diego meet the costs of the GOP convention Aug.

21-24. The memorandum, published by columnist Jack Anderson, said also that former Attorney General John N. Mitchell "is definitely helping us but Cannot let it be known." Mitchell, who resigned his Cabinet post to direct President Richard M. Nixon's re-election campaign and who is to testify at the committee's hearings, has denied the allegations. Meanwhile, Republican Representative Bob Wilson, from San Diego, said in an interview with the San Diego Union that Mrs.

Beard had called him in Washington Wednesday, one day after the memorandum was published by Anderson. Wilson said she told him that "she'd been up to New York, that they (ITT) were putting her on a leave of absence and that she was going to get out of town." Wilson, the paper said, asked her where she was going. He quoted her reply as: "I have no idea, but where I'm going they From Post-Dlspateh Wire Services ALBANY, N.Y., March 4 A Mohawk airlines turboprop crashed into a $50,000 home in a snowstorm last night. The coroner's office said that 17 persons were killed, one a resident of the house, and 36 injured. The plane carried 45 passengers, one an infant, and a crew of three.

There were five persons in the large, white two-story home. One of the engines of the FH-227 turboprop had a i 1 and the pilot apparently had cut the other, assuming that he would not make it to Albany airport, 3' miles away. The plane crashed into the living room of the house that Joseph Rosen had built 10 years ago. The plane's pilot and copilot were among those killed. The third member of the crew, the stewardess, Sandy Segir, was one of the those admitted to hospitals.

Also killed was Peter Sur-gent, who lived with his wife in an apartment on the floor of the Rosen home. His wife was not home. "It was fortunate that there was no fire and that people were being carried away alive," said Thomas O'Leary, a Mo-, hawk vice president, who lives near the Rosens. Rosen, 43 years old, his wife, Marcia, 35, and their children, Lawrence, 10 and Roger, 6, were watching television when the nose of the plane came through their home, causing the roof to cave in nearly knocking the structure over. Mr.

and Mrs. Rosen were flung into the back yard but not killed. Lawrence was found inside the wrecked home, hiding in a closet. Roger also was found alive in the house. Robert Dumas, a i a from suburban Colonie, was one of the first inside the wreckage.

"They cut a hole through the side of the fuselage with a pow China's territory, Taiwan Province" and of "colluding with Japanese reactionaries" by supporting their claim to a group of small islands that China also claims. The actions have aroused the "utmost indignation of the Chinese people," An said. John R. Stevenson, U.S delegate, referring to accusations made by several speakers and not mentioning China particularly, told the committee: "We reject these accusations." An said that the islands of Tiaoyu, Huangwei, i From Post-Dlspateh Wire Service UNITED NATIONS, N.Y, March 4 Barely a. after President Richard M.

Nixon's visit to Peking, Communist China has made a propaganda attack on the United States. An Chih-yuan, a Chinese delegate, told the United Nations committee on the peaceful uses of the seabed yesterday athat the Americans were guilty of "agtression and plunder at will" in exploiting a resources. He accused the United States also of "forcibly occupying DEATH SCENE: Five ohildren were killed last night in a fire at this apartment at 2870A South Jefferson Avenue. They were the children of Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas Crossno. (Post-Dispatch Photo) 5 Children Dead In Fire In Apartment Over Bar Rosenbaum Payments Held Up By Missouri Nanhsiao and Peihsiao, among others, were "part of China's sacred territory" and that the seabed resources around them and adjacent to other parts of China "belong completels to China." He used the Chinese names for disputed islands that the Japanese call theSenkakus. They are believed to have oil deposits. "It is absolutely impermissible," he said, "for any foreign aggressor to poke his fingers into them." Japanese Ambassador Motoo Ogiso replied: "No other state but Ja.pan could rightly claim sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands." The Chinese speech, in a relatively quiet and usually uncon-troversial committee, surprised diplomats because of the previous Chinese silence on matters involving the United States The Soviet Union, which the Chinese refer to as "social-imperialist," has been the main target of the Peking diplomats since their entry into the UN last November. "It looks as if the party is over," remarked one Western ambassador.

An included the Russians in yesterday's accusations but singled out the United States by name in charging acts of aggression and exploitation. "These hegemonic and expansionist acts cause a great damage and constitute a grave threat to the economic interests and state sovereignties of many coastal countries, especially those of Asia, Africa and Latin America," An said. China has supported a 200- TURN TO PAGE 7, COL. 3 won't be able to find me and I won't be able to talk to them." The paper reported that Wil Komor and Engelbrecht then raced up the only stairs leading to the apartment, i are outside and in back of the building. "When we got up there smoke was pouring out of a broken window," Komor said.

"There were two facing doors to the apartment but both were locked. As we tried to break down the one leading through the kitchen flames started shooting down from the transom above it. "It was an inferno in there, and when we finally broke the door down the smoke almost blew us off the building." Crossno, who had tried to no had come downstairs shortly after 9 p.m. to relieve her husband. As always, he said, she had locked the apartment.

"Tom was just standing at the bar with us, about ready to go upstairs, when all of a sudden his eyes lit up and he bolted out the door. He didn't say a word to anyone. "My back had been to the window, which Tom was facing, and when I turned around I saw smoke coming from someplace. I thought it was a car on fire or something." At that moment about 9:25 p.m. Patrolmen Vernon En-gelbrecht and Donald Komor of the Third District pulled up to the tavern in response to a call.

"My partner was driving," Komor said, "and as we pulled up I saw this guy burst out the front door of the tavern. "'Anybody up I asked. he said, 'My By GARY RONBERG Of the Post-Dispatch Five children burned to death last night in a fire in the second-floor apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Crossno, 2870 A.

South Jefferson Avenue. Crossno, 43 years old, and his wife, Marge, 33, operate Tom's Sand Bar tavern, which is below the apartment. The children, who were asleep, has been alone only a few minutes when the fire started. Dead are twin boys, Thomas Lee and Jerry Allen, Christopher Allen, a girl, Kimberly Dawn, 3, and another boy, Gregory Scott, 10 months old. Police speculated that the blaze might have started with a space heater, but the bomb and arson squad is investigating.

The fire, which apparently started shortly after 9 p.m., never was out of control and was extinguished within minutes after firemen arrived. A friend of Crossno's, one of about 10 persons in the tavern before the fire, said Mrs. Cross- Bogusky of Florissant. Bogusky and Dr. Barto Mitchell, who worked briefly in the clinic last year, have told Welfare Division officials that a receptionist in Rosenbaum's office telephoned welfare recipients to come in for dental work or face loss of their welfare checks.

For a dentist to solicit or advertise for business is a violation of the professional code of ethics. Rosenbaum was released on bond of $1000. He has been paid $120,049 for treatment of 2296 welfare patients in 1969, 1970 and 1971, and 15 dentists working in his clinic have been paid $95,562 for treating 2546 welfare patients in the last two years. Kansas City-Bids For Pandas KANSAS CITY, March 4 (AP) Kansas City, citing its location near the geographic and population centers of the United States, has entered its bid for the two giant pandas promised to this country py the Peoples Republic of China. In a telegram yesterday to President Richard M.

Nixon, Dr. Robert H. Hodge, president of the a a City Board of Park and Recreation Commissioners, said "We have the nation's finest medium-sized zoo." er saw, he said. "They (the passengers) were all strapped in the seats. "Each seat went forward like dominoes piled on top of each other." A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration at Albany County airport said that contact with the plane, Mohawk's flight 405, was lost when the craft was about three miles from the airport.

A mile or so before, the pilot had radioed that he had feathered one of the two engines. The National Transportation Safety Board "and Mohawk each sent a team of investigators to the crash site. They were all sitting on the couch in the back of the house watching 'The Patridge said Jerry Rosen, Joseph's brother and business How By JERRY VENTERS Jefferson City Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch JEFFERSON CITY, March 4 Payment of claims for dental services to welfare patients of Dr. Morris Rosenbaum of Pine Lawn will be held up until they can be investigated, State Welfare Director Proctor N. Carter, said today.

Case workers will begin the investigation next week. The Welfare Division and the State Dental Board are checking on charges of unethical conduct in Rosenbaum's treatment of welfare patients covered by medicaid. The Pine Lawn dentist has built a thriving practice by treating several thousand welfare patients in the last three years. Rosenbaum surrendered at St. Louis County police headquarters at Clayton yesterday on a warrant charging him with conspiracy to commit assault with intent to do great bodily harm.

This grew out of an allegagtion that he tried to hire two police characters to maim Dr. Thomas Prosecutors Confer With Irving 6 Hours NEW YORK, March 4 (AP) Author Clifford Irving met privately with federal prosecutors for more than six hours yesterday, but no one who attended the meeting would say what had been discussed. Sources said the meeting might be regarded as a preliminary to Irving's appearance before a federal grand jury. The jury is investigating possible mail fraud and other charges in a case centering on a book that Irving had presented as an autobiography industrialist Howard R. Hughes.

Hughes, among others, has denounced the Irving manuscript as a fake. Turning Colder Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Clearing and cold borrow a ladder to enter the apartment the front windows, then raced up the steps. "He wanted to go inside," Komor said, "but there was no way anybody could. It was suicide! He wasn't making any sense and me and my partner had to lead him back down the stairs." Firemen were arriving by then, Komor said.

One of them ran to the top of the stairs and immediately was driven back by the heat and smoke. "It was too hot," Komor said. "They had to pour water on (lie thing before anyone could go inside." Throughout the frenzy, both Komor and Engelbrecht said, no sounds came from inside the apartment. Police later speculated that the children might have been overcome by smoke before they died. Komor said that, as each charred body was removed from the living room floor, Crossno watched and gave the children's names.

"But, really, they were burned so badly it was hard to be Komor said. Mrs. Crossno is in City Hospital suffering from shock. Crossno told Third District police that he had no idea -how the blaze might have originated, but that a person with whom he had had a dispute about a year ago had threatened two or three times "to burn me out." ITT-GOP Connected? 21 er tonight with low around 20; fair and cold tomorrow with high in the mid 30s. Cold Monday; rain or snow likely Tuesday; warmer late Tuesday and Wedne sday; low Monday in the teens and high in 30s; lows Tuesday POST-OISPATCM WEATHER BIRD BEa u.

at. orr. and Wednesday in 30s; highs 45 to 55. Other Weather Information on Page 2A median on Interstate 80, were caught two hours after their escape. (UPI Telephoto) INTERSTATE ROUNDUP: Police cars rounding up two cows that broke away from a stockyard in Omaha, Nebr.

The cows, running across the If ra.