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Six Bodies Recovered Audie Murphy Plane Wreckage Found TOP fcjV MS til i Charles Burnette, pilot of a Virginia State Police helicopter, said the plane burned on impact. Murphy, a baby-faced Texas farm boy who received 24 decorations, including the Medal of Honor, for heroism during World War II, was traveling from Atlanta to Martinsville, in connection with a possible investment. The for- Related Story On Page I B. mer soldier turned to business several years ago after a movie career that included "To Hell and Back," a film based on his autobiography. Murphy was a frequent visitor to Tucson and often said that southern Arizona had a tight hold on him.

Several pictures he starred in were filmed Dodey, a friend of Littleton, reportedly boarded the plane in Atlanta with the others. "All indications point to the fact that it is Audie," said Carle, who had been awaiting the plane's arrival. "We don't have a positive identification, but everything else matches." Carle said Murphy had just completed production of a motion picture feautre, "A Time for Dying," in which he had a Jesse James cameo role. Murphy's son, Terry, also was in the film briefly. Burnette said it appeared from the wreckage and the fact that impact occurred only 300 feet from the top of the mountain that the plane was trying for a landing approach into Roanoke's Woodrum Airport about 14 miles to the southeast.

Wreckage of the plane first was spotted in (Continued On Page 9A, Col. 2) at Old Tucson. These included "The Guns of Fort Petticoat" and "Apache Agent." In 1956, Murphy bought a horse ranch in Pima County 30 miles southeast of Mountain View. Called the TM Ranch, lie used it primarily to house his quarterhorses, which he often ran at Rillito Park. Murphy sold the ranch in 1958.

The four persons originally believed to be with Murphy on the flight were Claude Crosby, president of Modular Management, a subsidiary of Modular Properties, of Atlanta; Jack Littleton, representing a group of investors from California; Raymond Prater, a Chattanooga, attorney representing Modular Management, and Herman Butler of Denver, the pilot. Murphy's business manager, Lincoln Carle, tentatively identified the other passenger as Jim Dodey, 30, of Ft. Carson, Colo. Carle said Captured Re Balk At Freedom of the NEWS CONTINUED MILD. LitUe change is expected In Tucson's weather the next two days.

It should be near 90 today with the low in the mid-5fts. Yesterday's high and low was 87 and 55. Summer weather prevailed throughout most of the nation, but an unseasonable snow fell in the Sierra Nevadas causing a 26-car collision. Unseasonable lows were also reported In Florida. Story on Page 4A.

Global DANGERS OF PULLOUT. U.S. commanders in Vietnam say the reduction in the number of troops has left the bases more vulnerable to enemy attack but has not increased the danger to ground troops in the field, Page 4A. SPY DATA BURNED. Egypt's president takes part in the burning of secret reports and tapes said to have been made by security police involved in nationwide surveillance over the Egyptian people.

Page JA. HIJACKED PASSENGERS. For the first time since a wave of airline hijackings began 10 years ago, Cuba refuses to release 69 passengers aboard a hijacked Pan Am flight. PageJA. NATO MEETING.

The U.S. is urging upon its NATO allies a show of unity as the organization members prepare for a meeting to discuss the prospects for talks with the Soviets on mutual troop reductions in Europe. Page 8A. CAMBODIAN MERCHANTS. An extremist group called Youths for Salvation has terrified Chinese merchants in Cambodia's capital with an order to remove all signs not written in either French or Khmer script.

The Chinese are being blamed for rising prices because they control economic life in Phnom Penh. Page7B. rt National YUBA CITY SEARCH. The search for gravesites in Yuba City, shifts to a new ranch, just south of the 500-acre ranch where 21 of the driftres' and sometime farm workers' bodies have been discovered. A special Mass is said for all 23 of the victims, and for the man accused of murdering 10 of the men.

Page 2A. MARS DATA. U. S. space officials say if America's Mariner 9 and Russia's Mars 2 and 3 successfully explore the red planet, they will share their findings.

By coordinating the research of the probes, there will be a better chance of unmasking Martian secrets. Page A. WAR PROTEST. Hundreds of Vietnam veterans retrace Paul Revere's route in reverse to "spread the alarm" against the war in Southeast Asia. The men march through Boston streets dressed in battle fatigues and carrying toy plastic rifles, which they break in what they call a "celebration of life." Page 6A.

McCLOSKEY STATEMENT. California Rep. Paul N. McCloskey says he could be dissuaded from challenging President Nixon in next year's presidential primaries by a decision to withdraw all U. S.

troops from Southeast Asia by the end of the year and to end all bombing. Page 4A. SALE OF TRAFFIC REPORTS. Selling traffic violation reports is criticized by some Kentucky officials who claim the practice is an invasion of privacy. The plan, begun several years ago, brought in $300,000 last year.

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Rec. 8B Sports 2-5B Tucson Today 5A TV-Radio 15B "11 Index ROANOKE, Va. (AP) The wreckage of a chartered plane carrying Audie Murphy, America's most decorated World War II hero, was found Monday on a mountaintop near here, and state police said six bodies were recovered. State Police Lt. Marvin Kent said the bodies were "badly mangled," and a medical examiner was sent to the scene in an effort to make identification.

After reaching the site, however, the examiner ordered the bodies removed to a Roanoke hospital. Numbers still visible on a portion of the tail of the twin-engine plane, however, matched those on the aircraft that Murphy, 46, and several other businessmen boarded Friday in Atlanta, state police said. The wreckage, located on the north side of Brushy Mountain about 14 miles northwest of Roanoke, first was spotted from the air, then was reached by rescue workers on foot. Fifteen Cents VOL 130 NO. 152 Explosions Hit Three City Sites Blasts Rock Apartment, 2 Attorneys' Homes By JAMES KISER AND JOHN RAWLINSON Star Staff Writers Three more explosions rocked Tucson last night, capping a weekend in which five bombs were set off.

No one was injured in the explosions, and damage was slight. First to be hit was the two-story Los Arcos apartment building at E. 22nd Street and Prudence Road, where an explosion at 9:32 p.m.. did slight damage. The apartments are under construction by Marv-Ed Construction Co.

Shortly afterward, an explosion went off at the home of attorney Edgar Rucker, 2901 E. 8th whose firm represents A patio wall, supporting an air-conditioner, was ripped open at the Rucker home. Next to be hit was the home of attorney Ben Lazarow, 5239 E. Holmes where a blast at 10:25 p.m. blew a hole in a patio wall.

Lazarow said he has no connection with Marv-Ed, nor with Rucker, whom he knows professionally. "We had just gone to bed, turned out the lights and turned on a small television set," Lazarow said, "when the bomb went off." He said a neighbor told police an older model car was seen driving up and down the alley with its headlights out just moments before the explosion. Cause of the blast at the Lazarow home was dynamite, police said. Rucker, who was relaxing in his home at the time of the explosion, said he thought it was dynamite that damaged his place. "I heard a low rumble," Rucker said, "then felt the blast shake the house." Asked whether it had anything to do with his defense of furniture dealer Sheldon Gil-man, accused of arson in a fire at one of Gil-man's stores, Lazarow said, "We don't know right now it's all speculation.

But if it had anything to do with Gilman, it would have been people on the other side." He declined further comment on the Gilman case. Last night's explosions occurred just two days after blasts at two Southern Arizona Bank branches Saturday night. Explosions damaged the night depository box at the SAB University Branch, 843 E. University Blvd. and ripped open the drive-in window of SAB's Amphi Plaza branch, First Avenue and Ft.

Lowell Road. Both explosions occurred within 15 minutes of each other. an operating loss of $74,000, blamed on public reluctance to ride buses. Use of the city bus system has increased this year, however, Olsen pointed out. Passenger volume for the first four months of this year, he said, was double the volume for the same four months of 1970.

It would be the first fare increase since 1966, when the current 25-cent flat fare- was established. The increase would mean a cost of 30 cents per ride, regardless of distance. The new contracts, the first to be signed between the bus company and the Tucsoii Transit System Employes call for a 61- cent-an-hour pay increase over a two-year period. Top pay for drivers before the contract was $2.46 an hour. Tucson Transit estimates that about 6,500 persons ride the buses daily.

Center Of Drama Audie Murphy FINAL Edition FORTY-EIGHT PASES Offer SHUSTER Tim Nevw Service eva accords, signed by South Vietnam, prisoners may not be repatriated against their wuL Hanoi surprised American and South Vietnamese officials by its quick acceptance of the offer, just two weeks after Lam spoke in Paris. Its official radio set a series of conditions, which South Vietnam was reluctant to agree to, but by then American officials had proclaimed pleasure at the possible exchange. Washington intervened and persuaded Saigon to go ahead with the arrangement Hanoi suggested. Living Quarters Of GIs Bombed In Phnom Penh PHNOM PENH (AP) Plastic bombs hit the living quarters of American servicemen at' tached to the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh in two attacks soon after dawn Tuesday.

The U.S. Army enlisted men belonging to the American military equipment delivery team were injured slightly by one powerful blast that wreckedcars and blew out the wall at ground level of their quarters. An American who would not give his identity said the injured men were treated on the spot. The military equipment delivery team is responsible for supplying Cambodia with arms and munitions to fight the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. The blast at the army team's residence, In a quiet side street, was followed 20 minutes later by an explosion outside a villa housing five U.S.

Marines who serve as U.S. Embassy security guards. The explosion blew out windows, but none of the Marines was injured. In battle action Tuesday, North Vietnamese regulars drove a South Vietnamese task force into retreat Monday from the Cambodian rubber town of Snuol which U.S. troops captured more than a year ago.

The South Vietnamese apparently were badly battered. The retreat came as a severe setback for the Saigon command which earlier in the day claimed a victory in South Vietnam's northern sector near Dan Nang. Advices from the field said the Saigon task force of up to 2,000 men fled Snuol with scores of wounded. They spiked artillery guns and destroyed some of their own trucks and armored personnel carriers as they fought their way southward across Highway 13 toward the South Vietnamese border 10 miles to the south. Because of heavy enemy antiaircraft fire which had hampered aerial resupply, and roads washed out by monsoon rains, the task force had not been resupplied and many of the vehicles had run out of fuel field reports said.

There was no firm count on casualties, but an Associated Press photographer reported from the field that more than 100 South Vietnamese wounded, some waiting evacuation for several days, were lifted out of rear areas by both South Vietnamese and U.S. helicopters. The retreat from Snuol opens up a supply route for the North Vietnamese, giving them control of portions of Highways 7 and 13 that lead into the northern tier provinces of South Vietnam's 3rd military region. This region includes Saigon and 11 surrounding provinces and shares 231 miles of border with Cambodia. Snuol is 90 mile? north of Saigon.

ds Sebil Erkan, 14-year-old hostage being held by two Turkish youths sought in connection with a kidnaping is brought to a third-floor window to show she is still alive. The house is surrounded by soldiers and police dogs. The youths have threatened to kill the girl unless they are allowed to escape. (AP Wirephoto) TUCSON. ARIZONA, TUESDAY, JUNE 1971 Youths Hostage about 1,000 which had gathered around the house.

The crowd was in a hostile mood and shouted insults at the trapped youths and cheered the threats and warnings of army officers. The terrorists asked police to give them the morning newspapers. Police refused, saying no newspapers had been printed. Newspapers did publish, and an influential columnist said in the moderate Milliyet: "Enough. That's enough.

"First you tied up a man and killed him," wTote Abdi Ipekci. "Now you use an innocent child as a shield. Are you really human beings?" In another development connected with the crackdown on terrorists in Turkey, police killed three youths believedto be members of an extreme leftist student union called "Revolutionary Youth" in Adiyaman in southeastern Turkey. Two others were wounded, and a sixth escaped. Police said the youths fired on them when they were called upon to give themselves up.

Istanbul's police chief was dismissed from his post for what authorities called "grave shortcomings in his official activities." The firing of Muzaffer Caglar came three days after news that two former top police officials here had been arrested. Rafet Kaplangi and Muzaffer Yilmaz were arrested late last week. According to press reports, they were implicated in the activities of the Turkish People's Liberation Army. Yilmaz was former boss of the political section of the Istanbul police force, while Kaplangi headed the financial section. By ALVIN 1971 New York SAIGON Only 13 of the 570 disabled prisoners that South Vietnam offered to return to North Vietnam have agreed to go, officials say.

The refusal of the rest of the prisoners has placed the United States and South Vietnam in an embarrassing position, possibly opening the way for charges by Hanoi of "bad faith" by the two governments on the prisoner issue. The U.S. had hoped that the release of the prisoners would increase world pressure on Hanoi to reciprocate by releasing some of the American prisoners held in North Vietnam. Thus, American officials exerted firm pressure on Saigon to meet all of Hanoi's terms for the release, scheduled for Friday. But International Red Cross officials who agreeing to accept the "Vietnamese patriots" ese prisoners, found only 13 willing to return.

South Vietnam even turned an additional 90 disabled prisoners over to the Red Cross officials for questioning. Tape recordings of a Radio Hanoi broadcast agreeing to accept the "Vietnamese patriots" were played to the prisoners, who were asked by Red Cross officials if they wanted to return home. South Vietnamese officials, angry that so few prisoners agreed to go north, said they plan to return the 13 as scheduled. Hanoi had stipulated a ship-to-ship transfer off the coast of the Demilitarized Zone dividing North and South Vietnam. A 24-hour truce will be in effect in an 18-mile radius of the transfer site.

Officials said that some prisoners may yet change their mind before Friday and decide to return, but the total is not expected to change substantially. The release of 570 prisoners would have been the largest of the war. The last prisoner release was in January, when 37 North Vietnamese prisoners were repatriated. So far, more than 200 sick and wounded prisoners have been returned to North Vietnam. Officials could not explain why so many prisoners refused to return to the north.

Some South Vietnamese said that the prisoners preferred to stay in the south out of fear of returning home. Others speculated that the prisoners had received word to remain in the prison camp. The other unanswered question was why South Vietnam had made such a specific offer without first conducting some soundings among the prisoners to see how many would be interested in returning. Saigon's original offer, made April 2 by Pham Dang Lam, South Vietnam's spokesman at the Paris talks, said: "We are prepared to repatriate to North Vietnam 570 sick and wounded North Vietnamese prisoners of war." Informed sources said that several weeks ago the South Vietnamese did make some preliminary checks, which also showed only 13 prisoners wished to return. The Saigon government presumably believed, however, that the figure would rise once the International Red Cross took over the screening.

Under the Gen- Sign Didn't Work TOKYO (AP) A worker slipped and fell feet to his death Monday, moments after ke secured a siga listing safety measures for workers oa top of aa eight-story building being eon-strutted la Tokyo, police reported. Young Girl Alive 2 Turkish Still Hold ISTANBUL (AP) Turkish army sharpshooters and police dogs Monday ringed the house where a 14-year-old girl was being held hostage by two youths sought in connection with the kidnap-slaying of an Israeli diplomat. The mother of one youth stood outside the house and appealed over a megaphone for her son to surrender. A retired army major, father of four children, and a bank director offered to take the girl's place as hostage. Police cut off water to the house and said they hoped lack of food and water would drive the fugitives out.

As a helicopter and a light reconnaissance plane circled overhead, the youths brought the girl, Sebil Erkan, to a third-floor window to show she was still alive. Witnesses said she had been tied to an armchair most of the time. They said one of the youths seemed impatient, "constantly pacing from one window to another." The two youths kept submachine guns in their hands at all times, one of the witnesses said. The youths, members of the Turkish People's Liberation Army, seized the girl in her house on Sunday. They had encountered police while leaving a vacant mansion and fled into the Erkan house.

They left in the street a bag containing the passport and identity card of Ephraim Elrom, the Israeli consul general kidnaped May 17 and killed five days later. Polica and troops dispersed a crowd of Transit Authority Weighs 5-Cent Bus Fare Hike By TOM TURNER Star Special Assignments Writer The Tucson Transit Authority will discuss a five-cent fare increase at its regular meeting tomorrow. Holden W. Olsen, authority president, said that the fare increase would help absorb increased operating expenditures arising from new labor contracts signed with 42 drivers and mechanics May 24. But the fare increase will cover only about two-thirds of the estimated $90,000 annual increase in wage costs, Olsen said.

The rest will have to come through the property tax rate. Nor will the fare increase do anything to absorb the cost of subsidizing the city-owned system, Olsen said. last year, Tucson Transit Company, which operates the buses for the authority, reported.