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Red la 5 Daily Facts Year No. 171 Phone 793-3221 REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1972 $2.00 Per Month 20 Pages 10 82nd SINATRA TESTIFIES -Frank Sinatra arrives to testify before the House Crime Committee today. Angrily declaring "I'm not a second class citizen, let's get that straight," the singer accused the committee of permitting character assassination against him. UP1 Telephoto. Character assassination Sinatra tells Congressmen he was unfairly treated WASHINGTON (UPI) -Angrily declaring "I'm not a second class citizen, let's get that straight," singer Frank Sinatra accused the House Select Committee on Crime today of permitting character assassination against him.

Sinatra lectured the committee for not promptly refuting the May 24 testimony of Joseph "the Baron" Barboza, who sought to connect Sinatra with a New England crime syndicate headed by Raymont Patriarca. "This bum went running mouth," Sinatra snapped. "I resent it. I'm not a second class citizen, let's get that straight." Spectators packed into the ornate Senate Caucus Room "oohed" at Sinatra's sharp remarks. "How do you repair the damage done in the newspapers?" he asked.

Then he held up a newspaper clipping and read its headline: Links Sinatra To Reputed Mafia "That's charming," Sinatra said sarcastically, that's all hearsay testimony isn't it?" "Yes it is," responded committee counsel Joseph Phillips. Phillips and Rep. Claude D. Pepper, D- the committee, chairman, acknowledged that never held an interest in the Fontainebleu Hotel in Miami Beach. Barboza had testified that Patriarca had told him that Sinatra held an interest in the Hotel as a front for Patriarca.

Pepper and Phillips conceded that Sinatra had every right to complain about Barboza's testimony. But they said the statement from Barboza was not expected and at the time they had no idea whether it was true. Sinatra contended the committee should have cleared the record as soon as it determined there was no "truth" to Barboza's charge. "How would we have done that?" asked Phillips. "Just call in the press and tell them it's a grave mistake," shot back Sinatra.

"It was character assassination, let's face it." The committee has been investigating the infiltration of organized crime into sports. It U.S. destroyer damaged sought Sinatra's testimony about his connection for about six to nine months in 1963 and 1964 with the -defunct Berkshire Downs Race Track in Hancock. Mass. Committee investigators say the New England crime syndicate held a substantial interest in the track then.

Sinatra said he purchased a $55,000 share in Berkshire Downs in 1962 but that he sold out his interest the following March. One reason for his decision to withdraw, he said, was the election of himself to the board of directors along with singer Dean Martin. He said the action was taken without his knowledge and that he did not know ab rut it "until we read about it in the sports Sinatra said he was asked to invest in the track by Samuel A. Rizzo, president and general manager of Berkshire Downs. The invitation, he said, was made at a night club in Atlantic City, but he was unable to recall who introduced him to Rizzo.

He estimated he has met 500,000 persons in the last 10 years. Phillips asked several times if he had been introduced to Rizzo by the late Tommy "Three Fingers Brown" Lucchese, head of a New York Mafia family. But Sinatra insisted he could not remember who first introduced him to Rizzo although he had met Lucchese informally on several occasions. He also said he had never met Patriarca. Sinatra, who was rushed to and from the packed committee room surrounded by aides who blocked off reporters and onlookers, told the committee: "I never had any business dealing in any shape or form with Mr.

Lucchese." He said that in each of the three or four occasions when he was introduced to Lucchese "I just said hello." Sinatra exercised his prerogative as a witness and had cameras and microphones barred from the hearing room. He strode briskly into the hearing room wearing a light brown sports coat, dark brown slacks and elevated shoes. Accompanying him was his attorney, Milton "Mickey" Rudin of Los Angeles. South Vietnam troops 50 yards from Citadel SAIGON (UPI)-South Vietnamese paratroopers fought to within 50 yards of the stonewalled Citadel in the northeastern corner of Communist-held Quang Tri city today, but there still was no major attempt to recapture the stronghold. The troops were the lead elements of a paratrooper unit battling its way into the city which has been in Communist hands since May 1.

Field reports said other government troops were as far as one mile behind the advance unit. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu has promised his troops will recapture the territory and drive the Communists back into North Vietnam. Earlier, the U.S. Navy reported two mysterious underwater explosions rocked the destroyer USS Warrington while it was on patrol off North Vietnam. One crewman was slightly injured.

Military spokesmen said there was no Communist ac- Cents Teamsters endorse Nixon RANCHO LA COSTA, Calif. (UPI)-The Teamsters, largest independent union in the country, broke with traditional support for the Democrats and endorsed President Nixon Monday, saying George McGovern doesn't care about middle class workers. It was another blow at the McGovern candidacy by organized labor, which fiercely resisted McGovern's nomination. The executive council of the AFL-CIO to which the Teamsters do not -has scheduled a special meeting in Washington Wednesday to discuss what stand to take. The meeting was called by AFLCIO President George Meany, a leading figure in the bitter preconvention fight against McGovern.

There have been reports the giant labor organization, traditionally a very important power base for the Democratic candidate, might opt to "sit out" the campaign, refusing i its support to McGovern but not going to so far as to work for Nixon's re-election. The Teamsters' decision was announced by the president of the 2 million member union. Frank E. Fitzsimmons, who said he realized such a an action is "at odds with the traditional and almost reflex support of labor for the Democratic ticket." The board had decided to back Nixon, he said, because blue collar workers, which comprise the backbone of America, seem to be of little concern to the McGovern ticket." Conversations with Teamster members convinced him the Nixon endorsement reflects the wishes of the union rank-andfile. he said.

He said the Democratic nominee "has not earned the support of America's working men and women. Our members work hard for their wages. They are entitled to what they earn, and they figure the government ought to get off of our back and out of our pockets." He said McGovern had cast antilabor votes on a number of issues, including right-to-work laws, and urged Teamster members "to work and vote to keep President Nixon in office another four The Teamster endorsement did not come as a surprise, since Fitzsimmons has supported Nixon's policies in the past, and was the only union member to remain on the federal Pay Board when other labor leaders quit to protest the administration's wage controls. Weather Temperatures today to 1 p.m. Redlands: High 84, low 61 Yucaipa: High 80, low 58 Year ago today Redlands: High 99, low 69 Yucaipa: High 94, low 66 Monday Redlands: High 92, low 60 Yucaipa: High 83, low 60 Smog: Light Wednesday.

Smog Phone: 792-5656. Monday 0x CO NO2 Redlands .08 6 .06 Over .10, 0 Peak 2:30 p.m. San Bernardino .10 6 .08 Riverside .17 8 .24 Sun: Rises 5:50, sets 8:00 San Bernardino Valley: Some late night and early morning low clouds and local fog. otherwise sunny Wednesday. Little temperature change.

Southern California: Night and morning low clouds coastal sections, otherwise sunny Wednesday. Little temperature change. NATIONAL WEATHER Temperatures and precipitation for the 24 hour period ending at a.m. High Low Pcp Boston 67 Chicago 1.24 Cincinnati Dallas Den ver .05 Des Moines 65 2.36 Fairbanks Honolulu Kansas City 67 1.16 Las Vegas Los Angeles Milwaukee Minneapolis New York Oklahoma City Omaha 59 .11 Palm Springs 106 75 Sacramento 89 San Francisco Seattle 57 Washington 74 Highest, lowest 48 states Palm Springs, 106: Butte, 4 44. Two miles west of town County Museum to be located in Redlands Redlands won.

The County Museum will be located 2 miles west of town on California street by the Redlands Freeway. By a 4-1 vote, the Board of Supervisors chose the Orange Tree site yesterday afternoon. Supervisor Nancy Smith of San Bernardino cast what she termed "a vigorous No." She vehemently insisted that her city is that San Bernardino has "reverence" for its Mormon-era history and that a county museum naturally belongs in the County seat. She was alone in her opinion. One by one the other supervisors rejected the assumption that the County seat is the natural location for each and every county facility.

Indeed, several expressed dissatisfaction with its traffic congestion. "Accessibility" was the pivotal word on which the decision turned in favor of the Orange Tree site. The West Redlands property is located at the California street ramps. The San Bernardino site would have been reached from the San Ber- years, although variable factors in the nardino Freeway via downtown, go-stop formula will determine the actual amount. streets.

Museum Commission RecomThe decision came at the end of an hour mendation. The commission, which is and 45 minute hearing. advisory to the Supervisors, rated the nardino Mayor made the of San Ber- Lake second. This was somewhat Robert Holcomb Orange Tree site first, and Seccombe pitch for the Seccombe the for Bernardino by offset Lake site. slight preference San Vice Mayor Charles DeMirjyn was the expressed by three architects who studied spokesman for the City of Redlands.

the possible locations. While Supervisorial opinion firmed up The County Museum sprang up on a site as the hearing progressed, the most in- in Bloomington, just south of the freeway fluential factors pre-dated the hearing by and just west of the Cedar avenue overweeks and months. Among these were: crossing. There it proliferated a into complex which is as strongly oriented to The offers of free sites. In West the natural history of the county as well as Redlands, the proposed Orange Tree to conventional history.

tourist attraction, offered five acres. (This Because the Southern Pacific is building was accepted yesterday.) San Bernardino a great marshalling yard, it has puroffered a land exchange. chased the museum property for $213,000. Cost sharing. Both Redlands and San This sum will go toward construction of Bernardino offered to form an in- the new facilities.

dependent agency which would be The new museum will be located in the financed jointly by the county and the Supervisorial District of Don Beckord of museum-site city. The terms were equal. Redlands. It was he who carried the ball The decision yesterday commits Redlands for the Redlands site yesterday and made to approximately $14,000 per year for 24 (Continued on Page 3) 20,000 advisers to go home Egypt orders Russians to leave CAIRO (UPI) Egyptian President Anwar Sadat today ordered home an estimated 20,000 Russian advisers, apparently breaking ties with the Soviet Union that stretched back to 1956. The reason for Sadat's action was not completely clear but an official announcement was expected later.

The decision came only three days after Premier Aziz Sidky spent only one day of a scheduled threeday visit to Moscow. Sadat asked Russia to bring its men home following a two and one-half hour meeting with the central committee of the Arab Socialist Union, Egypt's only political party. Sources said the advisers, which included an estimated 200 pilots and an unknown number of missile and air defense experts, have already started leaving. (London reports quoted a British newspaper today as Nixon to battle Congress on inflation SAN CLEMENTE (UPI) President Nixon wound up an 18-day working vacation at the Western White House today and returned to Washington to confront a Democratic Congress he claims is feeding inflation by wild spending. The President departed from El Toro Marine Air Station shortly after 10 a.m.

aboard the "Spirit of '76." White House aides said the President is concerned about the fate of his pending domestic programs and will call in Republican congressional leaders sometime this week to discuss them. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler left open the possibility Nixon might address the nation on the subject of congressional irresponsibility if the Congress continues to make a shambles of his budget. Nixon's chief congressional liason, William Timmons, told newsmen last week that he would be keeping a close eye on Congress during the politically charged month- session before the Republican convention. He said the President would veto measures that substantially exceed his budget, which the White House claims already has been put out of balance by more than $7 billion. PFANUTS DO SNOOPY! SNOOPY expulsion of the advisers was the Er.

ptian reply, it said.) Al Ahram newspaper said two days ago that Sidky spent eight straight hours with Kremlin leaders discussing topics relating to Egypt. (Political sources in Beirut said it was an open secret the Soviet presence was becoming an increasing internal irritant in Egypt and they noted that at a recent ASU meeting as many as 90 per cent of the questions related to the Soviet advisers. (The sources said it was likely Sadat would state that since the major Soviet task of installing SA2 surface-to-air missiles was completed, their presence was no longer required). The Beirut An Nahar newspaper said recently Egypt was spending an average $5 million a day on defense and now owed the Soviet Union a total $7 billion. This sum, it said, was equal to the value of all of Egypt's agricultural land.

According to the Institute of Strategic Studies in London, the Soviet advisers operated Egypt's air defense system consisting of anti-aircraft guns, 70 sites with six launchers each of SA2 surface to air missiles, a radar network and six squadrons of MIG21 interceptors. Coordinated with this defense are up to 150 MIG21 and possibly MIG23 aircraft. The institute said there were also up to 65 Soviet-controlled sites with four launchers each of SA3 missiles. Egypt's ties with the Soviet Union go back to a weapons agreement in 1956. Since then, including the period during the Middle East war of 1967, Russia has been Egypt's major military and economic backer.

Sadat also signed a new military pact with the Kremlin earlier this year, apparently giving the Arabs major concessions and enough arms to prepare Egypt for another war with Israel. PRESIDENT ANWAR SADAT saying Sidky asked for more offensive weapons from the Soviets and was rebuffed. The AFL-CIO controversy rages Bone tired McGovern starts two week vacation tired Sen. George McGovern started a two-week vacation in the Black Hills amid a controversy within the AFL-CIO, a traditional mainstay of Democratic presidential candidates, over whether to endorse him for the presidency. A key aide said as the Democratic presidential candidate flew here Monday that McGovern was not couraging either directly or indirectly the AFL-CIO component unions- including the Machinists and the American Federation of Federal, State and Municipal Employes-who have endorsed him over the stringent objections of AFLCIO President George Meany.

(The New York Times reported today that McGovern mailed letters Monday to the presidents of 150 international labor unions, including Meany, offering to meet with them "to talk about our common interests and discuss any differences we may have." The Times quoted McGovern as saying, "I told them that I thought we had an uphill battle but that we could win the election and we would be the kind of an administration they would be proud CUSTER, S.D. (UPI) A The dissident unions were reportedly planning to put pressure on Meany to endorse McGovern at Wednesday's AFL-CIO council meeting or face the loss of their contribution to the Committee for Political Education (COPE), the union's political fund raising arm. McGovern's advisers think one reason why Meany has been critical of him is a belief that radicals are in charge of McGovern's campaign. They believe that, once he realizes McGovern's staff is chiefly composed of skilled professional organizers, Meany will put the union's full resources behind the campaign. Fischer threatens walkout, finally agrees to play again tivity in the area at the time and there was no immediate explanation for the explosions.

The U. S. command also reported two incidents in the Quang Tri-Hue area where U.S. aircraft accidentially fired on government troops. Near Quang Tri City, two Air Force jet fighter-bombers erroneously fired on a government marine position, wounding four men.

Near Hue, 35 miles south of Quang Tri, a Marine fighter bomber in a similar error fired on a government marine battalion, injuring one soldier. Warrington left the scene. about 20 miles offshore from the North Vietnamese panhandle, under its own power. But after its engine room began to flood it was taken under tow, though the flooding was brought under control. The destroyer was en route today to Subic Bay in the Philippines for repairs.

On June 4 the destroyer Joseph Strauss was damaged by two underwater explosions by shellfire from shore. But naval spokesmen said there were no Communist gunboats nor any shore batteries firing when the Warrington was hit. The Navy said an investigation of the blasts was under way. Spokesmen said the explosions were outside the Warrington's hull. This left open the possibilities that the destroyer had struck a mine either North Vietnamese or American -or had been hit by the accidental firing of another warship in the task force.

A few hours earlier the Warrington, in company with her sister destroyers Robison and Hull, had been shelling the North Vietnamese coast. They reported destroying two supply craft ferrying supplies ashore from a freighter. Other naval ships joined today with U.S. Air Force B52 bombers and allied tactical aircraft and helicopters to bombard North Vietnamese reinforcements trying to reach Quang Tri City. REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) -An adamant Bobby Fischer threatened another walkout today only minutes before the start of the fourth game of the $250,000 world championship chess match but agreed to play if closed circuit television cameras were not used.

Only 15 minutes before referee Lothar Schmid started the clock for today's game the firm which bought film rights to the match tried to reinstall the cameras. "There will be no play if the cameras are brought in, that is sure," one Fischer aide said. An urgent meeting of the organizers was held and the firm, Chester Fox, agreed not to use the cameras. Fischer then sat down in his special black leather and metal swivel chair and made his opening move his usual king pawn. Fischer boycotted the second game against world champion Boris Spassky of Russia because of the cameras.

Fischer said they made him nervous. Schmid awarded the game to Spassky and it gave Spassky a 2-0 edge. Fischer narrowed the margin to 2-1 with a win Monday--his first ever against the Russian. 400 SEE NEST? WOODSTOCK'5 SNOOP? WHERE ARE 400 SNOOP? SNOOPY HOW CAN ANYONE GET LOST IN A TREE? SEMILZ.