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ARRAIGNED ON MURDER CHARGE Two men and three "Manson Family" women were arraigned in Stockton Municipal court late yesterday on murder charges. They are left to right: Michael Monfort, 24; James Craig, 33; Lynette Fromme, 24; Nancy man, 24; and Priscilla Cooper, 21. They were charged with the murder of James Willett, 26, and his wife Lauren, 19. The hearing was continued until November 27 and a II were held without bail. (UPI) Three women from Manson family, three men held in murder probe STOCKTON, Calif.

(UPI) Three young women scarred with the "Manson family" insignia and three ex-cons with "Aryan Brotherhood" tattoos on their chests were charged Monday with killing an exMarine and his teen-age wife to keep them talking about a crime spree. The three women and two of the men were taken into custody at a two bedroom house in this central California farming center when police found the body of Lauren Willett, 19, in the basement. The headless body of her husband, James T. Willett, 26, a recently discharged Marine from Los Angeles, was found last week in a shallow grave about 100 miles away, outside the resort town of Guerneville. He was killed a month ago'.

Authorities were led to the woman's body by an escaped convict who used Willett's name and papers to get free on bail after he and a partner were arrested for a Stockton liquor store holdup two weeks ago. Five of the suspects were arraigned Monday on charges of murdering Mrs. Willett during the weekend at the house where she had been living with them. 'San Joaquin County'District Attorney, Joseph Baker said Mrs. Willett, who had traveled with her husband's accused killers for a month "apparently of her own free will," was shot in the head with a .38 bullet last weekend to prevent her from talking to authorities about Willett's death.

When the three female suspects appeared in court, the scars of crosses cut into their foreheads as a tribute to mass murderer Charles Manson were barely visible. The "A.B." tattoos of a white racist "inmate hoodlum" group known as the Aryan Brotherhood were covered by the coveralls worn by the two men. Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, 24, Nancy Pitman, 24, and Priscilla Cooper, 21, were neatly attired in blouses and slacks as they appeared before Municipal Court Judge Lawrence Drivon after being led into court in handcuffs and chains. Miss Fromme and Miss Pitman spent months in a vigil outside a Los Angeles courthouse during the trial of Manson and three women cult followers for the "thrill" slayings of actress Sharon Tate and six others. The Fromme girl testified at length during the trial about her life with Manson while Miss Pitman was accused of trying to smuggle him LSD in his jail cell.

Miss Cooper's only known connection with the "Manson family" was the scar on her forehead. Michael Monfort, 24, stocky, unshaven escaped convict with a moustache, and James T. Craig, 33, a bearded parolee who had been sought for return to prison, wore blue jail coveralls during their court appearance. "Yeah," they answered when Drivon asked if they understood the charges. The judge ordered the five suspects held without bail and continued the arraignment until Nov.

27. Momfort, Craig and William M. Goucher, 23, an ex-convict being held in Stockton for an Oct. 30 liquor store robbery, were charged later Monday with the murder of Willett. Sonoma County District Attorney John Hawks accused them of shooting Willett with a pistol and two shotguns "on or about Oct.

10" in order to keep him from talking about a series of robberies they had committed in the Los Angeles area. Hawks said the slaying occurred near the gravesite outside Guerneville, where lett'had been living with the suspects. Kehoe asks aid in passage of no-fault insurance bill SACRAMENTO (UPI) Gov. Ronald Reagan's consumer chief called on Californians today to flood the legislature with appeals for enactment of a compromise no- fault car insurance bill. "It's imperative that this state move to a form of no fault insurance," state Consumer Affairs Director John Kehoe told a news conference.

He was flanked by Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner John Ryan, whose state was the first to do so. Kehoe specifically cited a compromise bill pending in the Senate Finance Committee as the vehicle to establish a no- fault insurance system for California. It is sponsored by Aesemblyman Jack Fenton, D- Montebello, and Sen. Alfred Song, D-Monterey Park. "The underlying legal philosophy of no-fault in Massachusetts is the same as it can be in California," Ryan said, adding that in his state the system has "cut costs" and improved "efficiency." Kehoe called on Californians to send letters, telegrams and make telephone calls to lawmakers and demand "no- fault now." "We need the consumers' help if no-fault is to become law in California," Kehoe said.

Although several no-fault insurance bills are pending in Reagan gets bike theft bill SACRAMENTO (UPI) bill aimed at reducing the estimated $30 million in bicycle thefts annually in California has been sent to Gov. Ronald Reagan. The bill by Assemblyman Robert E. Badham, R-Newport Beach, won final legislative approval Monday when the Assembly concurred in Senate amendments to the measure on a 55-5 vote. The bill requires all bicycles to licensed with the state for a $3 fee beginning in 1975.

It also bars the sale of a bicycle unless it has a serial number stamped on its metal frame. EB and FLO By Paul Sellers the Senate, all opposed by the powerful California Trial Lawyers Association key legislative leaders have voiced doubt that any will be enacted during the three weeks of the session. Under no-fault, law suits to collect liability damages in minor traffic accidents would be eliminated, thereby cutting insurance companies' litigation costs and reducing the backlog in California courts. Kehoe threw his support behind a compromise bill by Assembly Jack Fenton, D- Montebello, and Sen. Alfred H.

Song, D-Monterey Park. The Fentoh-Song bill would permit an insured motorist to go to court only when his basic medical costs exceeded (1,000. The driver would be paid for damages by his own insurance cohpany regardless who was at fault. Kehoe said Californians "can no longer tolerate an insurance system that fails to adequately compensate the seriously injured victim overpays for minor injuries. "California consumers are entitled to an auto insurance system that will fairly compensate all accident victims and provide reductions in insurance premiums," he said.

"No-fault will provide this." L.A. police search for hidden sniper LOS ANGELES (UPI)-Police declared a tactical alert for nearly three hours early today in the search for a concealed sniper who fired two shots at the Northeast police headquarters and escaped across a hillside. Authorities said the shots, fired about 1:50 a.m., whistled past the police building but were heard by security personnel guarding the headquarters. Fifteen extra patrol units and a helicopter joined in a ouar- ter-mile square search for the sniper. Earthquake hits in Pacific near Eureka EUREKA, Calif.

(UPI) sharp but small earthquake was recorded Monday night in the Pacific off Cape Mendocino. University of California seismologists said the temblor registered 5.0 on the Richter scale and was 50 miles west of here. They said it was of a type "fairly frequent" for the area and could have been felt by coastal residents "sitting quietly." Dinner 4.25 Prime Rib of Beef 5.95 Charbroiled Steak 5.95 Rack of Lamb 4.95 child's plate 2.95 dinner served from 12 MAKE RESERVATIONS NOW! (714) 793-2221 8 p.m. Interstate 10 at Ford Street Redlands DAILY FACTS, Redlands, Calif. Tuesday, November Over 50 killed in Europe's winter storm By United Press International The first European winter storm abated today after slicing viciously through six countries in a rampage that flooded thousands of homes, snarled sea and land communications and killed more than 50 persons.

The main impact of the storm struck both East and West Germany, Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. At least 54 persons in the six countries were killed in weather-related accidents Monday, police said, while scores of others were injured by flying debris propelled in some places by winds as high as 135 miles an hour. West German police put the death toll there at 29. The East German news agency said 12 persons there died with thousands more injured as 130 m.p.h. winds ripped roofs away, smashed brick walls and uprooted trees.

"The devil is loose," a spokesman for the West German fire department said. West German insurance agencies said damage there would run into the millions of dollars. Two men died in a rain- caused car accident near Brighton and a Canadian tourist, Mrs. Phyllis Davidson, 43, of Ontario, was killed by a falling chimney stack in Southsea, police said. In Dublin, officials called for emergency operations to handle the Irish capital's worst flooding in 10 years.

The 93-mile-per-hour winds over France blocked ships in their Atlantic and English Channel ports and flipped over a truck in Rouen, killing its driver. A convoy of snow plows and ambulances pushed up the mountainous Schlucht Pass in Eastern France to rescue 26 school children stranded in an unheated shack for 24 hours after a heavy snowfall. In the Netherlands, three persons were by falling trees and one by a collapsing barn wall, police said. Gusts measuring 95 miles per hour toppled cranes from Rotterdam docks and. ripped vessels from their moorings.

Long strike predicted Bakery dispute may spread east across U.S. LOS ANGELES (UPI) dispute over a bakery tradition may spread a West Coast bakers' strike eastward and cut bread production by 70 per cent throughout the nation, according to a union official. "I am sure that if negotiations don't go well this week, we'll spread this strike eastward and it will end up as a nationwide strike affecting anywhere from 40,000 to 50,000 members," said Joseph G. Kane, executive vice president of the Baker and Confectionary Workers Union, AFL-CIO. The strike, and a responding lockout, have already idled 12,000 bakers in the West.

At issue is the tradition of giving bakers split days The industry maintains that if the bakers had two days off in a row, particularly on the weekend, consumers would not be able to buy fresh bread. Currently, bakeries do not make deliveries Sunday and Wednesday. The union argues that bakers Peron hopes to see Pope ROME (UPI) Argentine dictator Juan D. Peron flew to Rome today, hoping for an audience with Pope Paul VI before making his "mission of peace" return to the nation which sent him into exile 17 years ago. Peron, 77, his third wife, Isabel, rmd his private secretary, Lopez Rega, arrived at Rome's Ciampino airport aboard the private jet of Marcel Dassault, owner of the French Sud Aviation aircraft company.

A crowd of about 20 Peronists climbed aboard a terrace at the semimilitary airport and shouted "Peron! Peron! Peron!" as the former strongman walked between two other men to a waiting limousine. Peron said nothing but emerged from the blue and white Mystere jet smiling broadly. He wore a gray business suit and carried a brown topcoat and hat over one arm. have wanted for many years to get their days off made consecutive, so they can "live like other Americans and spend weekends with their families." "The idea of fresh bread daily is a public relations scheme of the industry" said one union official. With modern preservatives and wrapping, the bakery workers argue, few consumers can tell the difference between fresh bread and that which is one or two days old.

The question of consecutive days off is the only issue at stake in the strike and lockout. "Negotiations are at a standstill now," said Kane Monday. "There are no meetings scheduled and I don't see any meetings in the near future. The way it looks to me it's going to be a long strike." The union struck Saturday at plants of ITT-Continental, the nation's largest bakery firm and maker of Wonder Bread and Hostess products. Following an agreement reached earlier between the large bakery firms for all companies to shut down if the union struck one, Campbell-Taggart and Interstate Brands, with operations in Northern California, closed their doors, locking out employes.

To date however, union predictions of serious bread and pastry shortages throughout the West have apparently failed to materialize. Another of the industry giants, American Bakery continued to operate, and many supermarkets own their own bakeries, which are not involved in the strike. There are many smaller, independent bakeries. Markets and restaurants in the Los Angeles area, focal point of the strike, said these alternate sources had increased production to fill in the gap left by the closure of the three big firms, and although some shortages could develop, no serious problems were expected. Rep.

O'Neill to seek Boggs' post in House WASHINTON (UPI) Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill D- third ranking in House Democratic leadership, announced formally today he would seek the No. 2 spot in place of the missing Rep. Hale Boggs in the new Congress.

Boggs and Rep. Nick Bagich, D-Alaska, were aboard a private plane missing since Oct. 16 in Alaska. Rep. Sam Gibbons, announced his candidacy for the Boggs post last week.

"Everyone is aware of the apparent tragedy which has befallen our present majority leader," said O'Neill. "While we are all still hopeful concerning Hale's whereabouts, it is important that our party continue to fulfill its leadership role during the 93rd Congress." O'Neill was picked by Boggs and Speaker Carl Albert as Democratic whip in the last Congress. The 59-year-old O'Neill, elected to an 11th consecutive term in the House Nov. 7, is 1 also a senior member of the House Rules Committee and is chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee which allots contributed funds to House Democratic members to help in their reelection campaigns every other year. O'Neill is considered the favorite to win election to Boggs' post by House Democrats when they caucus Jan.

2, the day before the formal opening of the new Congress. Gibbons told a news conference Friday he would actively seek the post. Gibbons cited his work on the House Ways and Means Committee and his image "as the only potential candidate likely to garner support from all factions of the party." O'Neill, whose hometown is Cambridge, is a northern liberal who came to Congress by winning the seat left vacant by John F. Kennedy when he won election to the Senate in 4 reasons Gncluding price) to pick Fours Courier over other imports Courier is the import with the long list of standard equipment Features at right are extra cost on some imports-or aren't available. They're all included in Courier's low standard price.

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