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Wat WEATHER Forecast For Tucson. Fair and warmer. Temperatures Yesterday: HIGH 103 LOW 74 Year Ago: HIGH 90 LOW 7o U.S. Weather Bureau VOL 126 NO. 180 FINAL TEN CENTS An Independent NEWSpaper Printing The News Impartially TUCSON, ARIZONA, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 30, 1967 Entered as second class matter Post Offic.

Tucson, Arizona 622-58L5 FORTY PAGES Janelle Haines Murder Case Egyptians Say Truce Violated 7(g7T37 Whft Florida Probing QuU American's Land Dealings I I American Stock Exchange Places Baca Float Buyer On Suspension TAMPA, Fla. (Special) The operating status of a would-be Nogales, land developer was on shaky ground Thursday as it tackled troubles with the American Stock Exchange and the State of Florida. The exchange suspended sale of Gulf American Corp. stock Extortion Count Also Faces Boy By KEN BURTON A tall, lanky Sierra Vista boy, the son of an Army sergeant, was arrested shortly before noon yesterday and charged with the murder of 6-year-old Janelle Elizabeth Haines. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, who took 16-year-oli William L.

Huff into custody at his home, also lodged an ex-tortion count against the youth- Resolution Scored By Eban is fjl li hrn -A A' I 1 i I i Y'lHfc, 3 wJ Axi I Tuesday following a Wall Street Journal story that detailed the firm's problems with the Flor ida Installment Land Sales Board. The five-member board had planned to meet that same day, but could not do so because of a lack of a quorum. It rescheduled the sessions for Friday but there was a chance this meeting would not come off either. The Associated Press quoted a source close to Republican Gov. Claude Kirk as saying the governor wanted the case post poned until Aug.

1 when a new, seven-member board will take office. The AP quoted the source as saying Kirk would try to pre vent any further meetings until that date, but that Gulf American wanted the case disposed of before the new board took over. One member of the existing board is Robert H. Finkernagel a Gulf American vice president. Board rules would prevent him from voting.

The Wall Street Journal said two other members had connections with the company. It identified them as Howard Hirsch, a Miami attorney it said had represented Gulf American, and Joseph F. Chapman legal counsel for a business consulting firm that works for the company. The consulting firm is Hay-don Burns Associates. Burns, a Democrat, was Kirk's predecessor as governor of Florida and appointed all five members of the current board.

The other board members are Elliott Mackle, executive vice president of a Gulf American competitor, Deltona and Gerald Gould, the chairman and president of another land company, Lehigh Acres Development Co. Whatever action occurs Friday it apparently will have (Continued on 7A, Col. 1) Huff is being held in Pima County jail. Huff's apprehension climaxed ar exhaustive, seven-and-a-half-. .1 i.nnl r.l'irnh i.m u-r nr 111 1 mysterious note, delivered to a wxnise ouc-i ui a juration in Sierra Vista on May 1 01 "You have found my first victim," the note read.

"My next one lives on Steffen a 9 yrs old girl I shal (sic) Strike Again you Found my First Victim!" The note was signed, "The Phantom." The body of 7-year-old Cindy Clelland was found on Ft. Huachuca May 3. She was stabbed and strangled to death. Although nude when found, she had not been sexually molested. Janelle Haines was found murdered at the fort June 22, her forehead smashed with "a heavy instrument." She was likewise nude, and had not been sexually attacked.

John Mull. FBI agent-in- charge of the Phoenix office, said his men began working on th note as soon as it was received, but the "thousands" of possible suspects in the area made his men's work tedious. Handwriting specimens of Huff's were examined against the note, and there were "numerous similarities." according to the U.3. District Court complaint. Janelle Haines' brother, Jer rod, told FBf agents that a Negro boy, 16 to 18 years old.

talked with him and his sister on the day Janelle disappeared Jerrod later identified Huff. Suspect Under Arrest William L. Huff, 16-year-old Sierra Vista high school student suspected in the slaying of 6-year-old Janelle Haines in Fort Huachuca, is led into the U. S. Federal Building by federal agents, who took him into custody on an extortion count.

(Sheaffer Photo) JLi i JAYNE MANSFIELD Crash Kills Actress Mansfield Two Men Also Die; 3 Children Injured By BEN THOMAS NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) Jayne Mansfield, a buxom sex symbol who once called her life "just one long honeymoon," met a bloody and violent death east of here Thursday in the shredded wreckage of a car. She was en route to New Or leans for a television appear ance. The 2:30 a.m. collision also killed two men who were with the beautiful blonde ac- tress, whose 40-inch bust brought her a flashy career.

A tempestuous love life and, in recent months, increasing personal troubles kept the 34-year-old actress in the limelight although her movie career had gone downhill. One of the men killed with her was Samuel S. Brody, 40, a Los Angeles lawyer whose wife accused him recently, in a divorce action of committing adultery with Miss Mansfield. The other victim was Ronnie Harrison, 20, a handsome prelaw student at the University of Mississippi. Police said Harrison was driving the big gray car.

Marie, 3, Zoltan, 6, and Mickey 8, three of the actress' children, escaped serious injury. Police said they were in the back seat of the vehicle. The car rammed the rear of a tractor-trailer rig slowed by a cloud of white antimosquito U.S. Approves Big Tariff Cuts Israelis Charged With Suez Shooting CAIRO (AP) Egypt charged Israeli troops Thursday lured a Suez Canal Authority launch to the canal's east bank and opened fire, killing two Egyptian crewmen and wounding three. A government spokesman said the incident occurred near Ismailia, about midway through the 103-mile canal.

The captain of the launch was among he two killed, he added. This would be the most serious incident along the cease-fire line, where the Israeli army that won the Middle East war is drawn up. Aly Sherif, an Egyptian reporter, said he was aboard the launch sailing up the canal when the incident occurred. He gave this account: The launch was hailed in Arabic by an Israeli army patrol on the east bank. The Israeli soldiers tola the skipper of the launch to pull over as they wanted to hand over a wounded Egyptian.

When USS Liberty skipper says heat may have triggered gun on his ship during torpedo boat attack, 7B. the launch approached the ea.t bank, the Israeli soldiers opened fire with a submachine gun. The helmsman immediateh swung the launch away from the east bank and sped away. The captain was killed and one crew man was wounded. The Cairo spokesman, asked for comment on Sherif's report, confirmed the incident tut said the casualties were two killed and three seriously wounded.

The launch had been on its way to serve some of the 15 ships of various nationalities blocked in the Bitter Lakes since Egypt closed the canal. Among the ships is the American freighter Observer, out of New York, which was bound for India with 27,000 tons of wheat when the Israeli-Arab war broke out June 5. Twenty-five of the crew, arriving in Cairo to take a plane for Europe, were reluctant to discuss the war but said they had no complaint about their treatment by Egyptian authorities. Hughes Awarded Copter Contract ST. LOUIS, Mo.

(AP) The U.S. Army Aviation Materiel Command announced Thursday award of a $13.66 million contract to the Hughes Tool Co. Aircraft Division of Culver City. for primary heli copter trainers. The Hughes company manufactures the new OH-6A liyht observation helicopter.

A Hughes spokesman said the major portion of the work will be done at the Culver City plant and assembly will be at the Rose Canyon facility near San Diego. Mayor Teddy Kollek could hardly contain himself. "I think it's the greatest carnival I ever saw." he said. "It was an exchange of populations. was a bit worried last night when we decided to drop the barriers.but it went beautifully.

It was fantastic. Not an incident, not one. Did you see the Arabs? They had laughing faces, it was marvelous." The divided city had been fused administratively on a continuing basis each day since Israeli forces captured te Jordanian half June 7. WASHINGTON The government disclosed Thursday tariff reductions ranging up to 50 per cent on thousands of imported products. The disclosure came as President Johnson approved the final results of the Kennedy Round of trade negotiations and author ized United States signature of v- fx- iffcri JANELLE HAINES Her Killer Caught? where ing.

he had been work- An Associated Press story yesterday quoted Huffs high school principal as saying the youth was a student "just putting in his time." "He wasn't much of a student," said Vince Cisterna, principal of Buena High School. "He didn't make much of an effort. was just putting in his time." Cisterna said Huff, who completed his sophomore year this year, didn't participate in any extracurricular activities at the school or in the summer recreation program. Huff is the son of Army Sgt. 1C.

and Mrs. Algia Huff, of 101 Martin in Sierra Vista. Sergeant Huff is stationed at Camp Roberts, Calif. Cochise County Sheriff Jim i I 0 said yesterday he wants to studv the Clelland July 10. at 1 ra.

A spokesman at the Sierra Vista Police Dept. said Huff, a student at Buena High School, had no local arrest record. Flares When patrol cars moved to an area of trouble, the groups would move to another area, police said. There were attempts to start fires with crude homemade gasoline bombs, police said. Thev wert unsuccessful.

Police iJso reported that those Negroes who were 00 the streets appeared to te older than m-ny on Tuesday and Wednesday night, when large numbers of youngsters were out. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. A Israel countered mounting U.N. opposition to its annexation of the Old City of Jerusalem with a declaration Thursday that only a negotiated peace, with the Arabs could resolve the fate of the city and other issues. At a news conference.

Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban rejected a resolution by 15 so-called nonaligned countries demanding an immediate and unconditional Israeli withdrawal from all Arab territory occupied iii the six-day war. He pledged that Israel would keep the holy shrines in the Old City open to Christians, Mos lems and Jews. He said his country would look more favorably on a west ern resolution, still in the making, that would tie a call for withdrawal with an end to the state of belligerency in the Middle East. But Eban stressed also that Israel had little hope that any U.N. resolution would be the main factor in bringing about a settlement.

The nonaligned countries were insisting on a vote Friday on their resolution. The United States, Britain and Canada worked behind the scenes to produce a rival resolution calling for a troop withdrawal, but tying it in with a demand for an end to the state of belligerency by all sides move, led nominally by Denmark, had support of Eu- a Latin Americans, some French-speaking African countries and some Asians opponents of gun control meas- grew to hundreds and then to thousands. By afternoon, cars with Jordanian and Israeli license plates were jamming the roads in both sides of the city. One-way streets were being violated with blissful abandon. Israeli policemen finally were posted at crosswalks.

Arabs who knew each other in the former Jordanian sector met on an Israeli street and embraced joufully. then embraced everyone around Jews, Arabs, policemen and children. the agreement Friday in Gen-, the price to the consumer will i not be large. For example on a The tariff reductions will be $2,000 foreign car, the present; spread over five years, starting duty is $125 and it will be 1, 1969 and ending Jan. duced to $60 by 1973.

Primo Camera, Ex-Champion, Succumbs SEQUALS, Italy (AP) -Primo Camera, the man mountain who won the world heavyweight boxing title In 1933, died Thursday, his huge frame wasted by cirrhosis of the liver. He was 60. "Da Preem," who had lyen ill for three years, left his home in Glendale, with his wife a month ago for Se-quals, the little town in Italy where he was born. Although he vowed to return to the United States, it was generally known that he had gone home to die. Mrs.

Camera, who met and married Primo on March 13, i 1939. was at his bedside when he died. So was their daughter. Jean Marie Alderson, 24, wife of an engineer. Their son.

I'mberto. 27, a medical student at I CI. A was en route. Consulates Closed CAIRO (AP 1 -Foreign consu lates at Port Said, including those of Red China. Russia and et uermanv.

have been closed by order of the Egyptian foreign ministry, the semi-official Midd'e East News Agency reported. a Negro, as the person he and case more closely before filing Janelle spoke with on June any charges He admitted m-22. ilarities in both murders, but said he would like to have Huff, wearing a dirty, blue. evidence." pull-over shirt, dark trousers and brown oxfords without Huff is charged with "willful-Sfcks, was arraigned before ly and knowingly" using the Commissioner Raymond U.S. mails to deliver "mail 1 i i yesterday after- containing a threat to injure" nwn.

on the extortion complaint. Today's News Index Senate Interior Committee approves CAP measure, IB Sonora's crucial balloting to be held Sunday, IB Actor Mills relaxes in Tucson and says he "loves the heat," 4C Ft. Huachuca becomes core of Army's global communications system, IB Huff responded to most of Terlizzi set bail at $2,000 on Terlizzi's routine questions in the extortion count, and de-barely audible tones, but clared Huff be held without bail Sen. Tydings fires blast at ures, 9B seemed to pay close attention 1 on the murder charge. A pre-to his court-appointed attorney, hminary hearing was set for Bridge 8B Financial 10B Pub.

Rec. 5D Comics 6-7C Horoscope 8C Radio-TV 7C Crossword 6C Mostly Hers Sports 1-4D Editorial Movies 5C Weather 4A i -i ert 'Hit nr-Y-i iVm ti of feint An But where the dutv is rola- tively high, as on such products as binoculars, lamps, and perfume, the customer will prob- a eventually pav lower Dnces on imported items In the case of imjorted alcoholic beverages, the duty has far less effect on the price than domestic taxes federal, state, and local. However, the duty reductions are still of some importance. For the tariff on Scotch Whisky wa reduced from $1 02 a gallon to 51 cents. Among consumer products.

the chief area where tariff re- ductions were relatively small. or even non-existent. wa in 1 wearing apparel. There were only modest reductions in cot-j ton apparel items and in mo--, types of footwear, and none a' all for woolen goods. The domestic wool textile in dustry is one of the relatively few cases of an industry that is already clearly suffering from import competitiition from such countries as Japan.

Bnta.n and Italy. Thus woolen goods were put on the U.S. "exceptions list" in the Kennedy Round, and other nations did the same -thing for other items. Based on 1966 imports, the U.S. reduced duties on goods entering the country worth $7.5 biilion to $3 billion.

Foreign countries reduced their duties on products the U.S. exports in i about the same amount. 1, 1973. Thus the impact will be slow, but in the end it will be substantial, for both consumers and industry. For consumers, there are big duty cuts on such imported items as champagne, Scotch i whisky, brandy, perfume, bone chinaware, television sets, record players, motorcycles, automobiles, Christmas tree sets, yachts, binoculars, luggage, handbags, shotguns, wigs and cameras.

Most of the reductions will cut the present tariff in half. Where the present tariff is low. Last Tuesday parliament adopted a law enabling Israel to annex the old city and Wednesday it so. Friday, the Moslem sabbath. Arabs living on the west bank but oulside the new Jerusalem border will be permitted to enter what is now Israel to pray a the mosque of Omar and A'-aqsa Mosque.

Kollek indicated that many would find their way into Israel. "What is to stop them if they meet a cousin who says 'come, let me show what it's like over Jerusalem's Arabs Embrace Jews As Barriers Are Lifted Negro Boy Is Wounded fog on narrow, winding U.S. 90. Miss Mansfield had left the Gus Stevens Restaurant and Supper Club in Biloxi, where she was appearing, after her last show Wednesday night for the trip to New Orleans. Mickey Hargitay, the movie cle a who was Miss Mansfield's second husband, flew here quickly to the bedside of the three children.

He is their father. Matt Cimber, the estranged third husband of the actress, also rushed here from Hollywood. He and Miss Mansfield had one child, Antonio, 1. Rambo said he had slowed down because of the thick fog from the insecticide vehicle when the car smashed into the rear of his trailer with tremendous impact. It peeled back the top of the sedan.

The children were taken to Charity Hospital here, then transferred to Ochsner Foundation Hospital in the suburbs at the request of Hargitay, who (Continued on 7A, Col. 1) Thomas Chandler When asked if he were em- ployed. Huff told Terlizzi, "Yes, part-time." He said he made $1 25 an hour, but did not sav Violence Jefferson Avenue with gunshot wounds in the back. Neal told police he had been shot by two men who drove by a white station wagon. "They were white, but I don't think they were police." the jfuce.s said Neal told them.

Police said that on this third night of violence those walking the street appeared to be acting without organization or direction. Buffalo BUFFALO. N.Y. (AP) A 15-year-old Negro boy was wounded in the back and neck Thursday night as violence erupted in this city's lower East Side for the third night in a row. The latest outbreaks came only hours after Mayor Frank A Sedita had aked young Negroes to give him a week in which to resolve differences.

Police said they found Tim Neal. 15. lying in a doorway oi East Ferry Street and By JAMES FERON 1W N. Y. Tims News Service JERUSALEM Thousands of Arabs and Jews mingled freely and joyously Thursday as Jerusalem's 19-year-old barriers disappeared.

Separated since the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the residents of this historic city poured into each other's sec-1 0 and each other hearts. Wary of each other at first, they came in small groups through the Mandelbaum Gate and across the rubble-strewn scar of the former no-man's land. Soon the dozens.

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