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7TT7 7'y'tTyrrrrry'TTry rrr'rr .1 A 1 v-'f 1 'jTr I T.J I Lana Ouch, Calif. Fit, Nh. 1 WJ PRETELEGRAMJPM) A-2-MK PENDENT (AM) A People in the news Stennis improving, -goesJback to work' Rap prayer Combined Newi Services' Bin mouth Underworld Don Carlo Gambino spent two holm in the back roomof a Brooklyn police station Thursday because his chauffeur was driving Actor (Sgt. Schultz) dies IL Rap Brown opened his attempted murder trial Thursday with a J5-minute statement begin: lUng praise be to Allah" and ending truth is at of the storm and I am no more than a Sen. John Stennis, showing definite Improvement but still on the critical list, confer-, red with an aide on Sen ate business from his hospital bed Thursday; less than 48 hours after he was shot during a holdup.

without a Police said they told the A spokesman for Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where Stennis underwent nearly seven hours of surgery for two bullet wounds, said foe 71-year-old chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee has shown defir nite improvement since this morning." to go but he insisted on' accompanying his James Big Mouth" Fail-la, to the Avenue sta tionhouse. Once there, officers said, Gambino repeatedly urged Failla to your mouth shut" Failla ty a reputation of living up to his nick-' name, a detective explained. Creator tile (dace to fall." Brown and three codefendants are accused in a 24-count indictment of the 1 attempted murder of po-' licemen, foe robbery of an upper West Side Manhattan bar and illegal possession of weapons. Brown, acting as his own co-counsel, stood in front of foe bench, held his arms out, closed his eyes and said! Praise be to Allah." Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arnold Frai-man interrupted to inform Brown, a Muslim, that prayers had no place in opening But' Brown -continued, describing his religious and philosophical convictions, sometimes in poetic terms. MaJ.

Frank Garland said a respirator or oxygen mask had been removed and that Stennis had been transferred from a recovery room to a private room within the hospitals intensive care suite. JOHN BANNER As Sgt Schultz John Banner, foe portly Sergeant Schultz of foe 'Hogan's Heroes' television series, has died in his native Vienna, Austria, and will be buried there today, it was reported Thursday. Banner's wife, Christine, was at foe side of the actor when he died shortly before midnight last. Sunday, his 63rd birthday, in Sftien Hospital. Banner entered the Saturday after he suf-' an abdominal hemorrhage.

The coupld had no children. Banner and his wife recently bought a home in France and they were in-Vienna awaiting a- ship-, ment of furniture when, the actor was stricken Bob CTane, the star of Hogans Heroes, said he was saddened by the death of Banner and that foe time they worked together was six of foe happiest years of my life. He was the man in real life that he played in the show." Banner established himself as an actor in pre-Hitler Germany, but he fled that for the United States in 1839. Unable to speak English, he memorized his lines phonetically when he appeared in New York plays. He later moved to Hollywood for a short Dennis the Menace has a sister.

Friends of cartoonist Hank said a daughter was bom Thursday to the cartoonist and his third wife, Rolande, in Geneva, Switzerland. The was named daughter RESIDENT and Mrs. Nixon smile as British Prime Minister Ed-: ward Heath waves to crowd Thursday from the balcony of the White House. State dinner was held later for Heath. (Story below) i Since removal from the respirator, he is able tlie Danu.

to speak, is alert and conversant," Garland said. WORLD-TODAY Ketchams only other, child is a son, Dennis, 26, for whom the Dennis the Menace cartoon is named. Pushups Nixon veto The senators son, state Rep. John Hampton Stennis of Jackson, visited bis father with his mother, Mrs. Coy Hines Stennis, during the Split time before joining foe U.S.

Army Air Corps, in which he served -until 1945. When he returned to Hollywood after World War he appeared in a succession of motion pictures, including The Blue Angel," The The Story of Ruth," and The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz." Banner played romantic roles in Ids early career on stage and in movies and then moved to character parts. His comedy role in Hogans Hefbes, which ran for six years, established him firmly with television audiences. iyrTBRTIA.TIOITAJ-. Combined News Services Falling food supplies feared The Amateur Athletic Unions first honorary.

fitness chairman Sen. William Prokmire, foe Wisconsin Democrat and Jogger. To show that he rated the honor, the 57-year-old Proxmire did 75 pushups in -59 -seconds, saying it was nothing compared with the 250 pushups he has done every morning for the last 43 years. WASHINGTON The new Senate challenged for foe first time Thursday President Nixons pocket veto" of legislation after foe last Congress adjourned by passing 68 to 14 an identical $583 million authorization bill for rivers and harbor construction which Nixon had killed. In vetoing foe so-called pork barrel" The Washington office of Eric Sevardd, the CBS commentator, said that he and his wife, the former Beleu Marshall, have separated.

Sevareid was to have gone to Italy. There was no indication whether the Sevareids planned legal action involving the separation. Stennis also met privately with his administrative assistant, Edward Cresswell, about Senate affairs, the son said. In his opinion, he said, to foe extent doctors will permit him, he returned to work this morning. NATIONAL ROME The director of foe UJJ.

Food and Agriculture Organization painted a bleak picture of world food supplies and proposed Thursday an agreement among producing nations to stockpile food for the world's hungry. Concerted international action is need- measure Oct 27, Nixon indicated his disapproval of Congress' initiating projects foe White House had not first ed, said Addeke Boerma, to counteract recommended Since Congress had al-fickleness of weather and food market adjourned when foe veto was hand- ed down, there could be no attempts override the vpto. House approval of the new bill would send the legislation back to Nixon and create the prospect of another showdown. (Related Story, Page A-10) conditions. Adverse weather in foe past year has caused a series of bad harvests, severely depleting stocks of wheat and rice.

At the same time, the abrupt increase in import demands, including purchase of 30 million tons of wheat and other grain by foe Soviet Union, has led to punishing and potentially dangerous consequences," particularly in the under-developed countries, Boerma added. Talks snarled Nixon, Heath praise WASHINGTON President Nixon Thursday night praised British Prime Minister Edward Heath for having the courage to make gutsy decisions in economic and foreign policies affecting all of Europe. Heath in turn praised Nixon as a man of foresight who has put foe United States and its allies on a path of peace and development The two exchanged toasts at a White House state 'dinner attended by some 100 guests. Nixon told the gathering that England wouldnt have entered foe Common Market if it hadnt been for the efforts, of Heath. I admiref you for making a gutsy decision," the President said Heath, noting foe Vietnam cease-fire, said it must be an enormous burden lifted from your shoulders for this ago-, nizhig experience which the U.S.

passed through. i i CAIRO The first Soviet' military delegation to visit Cairo since Egypt evicted 15,000 Soviet advisers last July 'arrived The purpose of the visit was not announced, but it coincided with an announcement by Presi-' dent Anwar Sadat of Egypt that he is sending his top security advisor, Hafez Ismail, to Moscow to review the current Middle East situation." 1 i Soviets iii Cairo JVlore teachers Strike: 4 VIENNA U.S., Soviet and allied delegates got snarled Thursday in procedural tangles that prevented them rfronrdeciding when to sitdown and -begin talks about force reductions in Europe. Some thought a working meeting pould be held today. Others spoke of Monday or more vaguely about early next week." U.S. officials would say no-more than fairly soon.

Cool reception WARWICK; ILL Teachers went on strike in Warwick, R.I., Thursday, one day after foe Rhode island Supreme Court ruled they had no constitutional right to strike, and teachers in Philadelphia and SULouis defied court injunctions against their lengthening walkouts. In other school disputes across, the nation, the St Louis' school, board sought fines against strikers; most of Clevelands public schools were shutdown in foe-second day of a strike by maintenance workers, with teachers observing the picket lines; and about 200 Catholic lay teachers in Cleveland walked out for a study day." About 2L00O children were kept out-t Pi SANTIAGa Chile The leftist government gave a frigidlectxmThurs-day night to 15 Haitian political exiles linked to the kidnaping of two U.S. diplomats in Port-Au-Prince; Nevertheless, Daniel Vergara, under secretary of interior, said the government had authorized a temporary resident visa for SAVE $20 TO $30! ANNUALFACTbRY-SPONSORED y- MAGNAVOX SALE classes by the strike in Warwick, second-- largest city in Rhode TslanH. hnrrertng to each of foelOmen andjfive' women and about 550,000 the numberrf ed by teachers strikes across the nation. said their permanent' situatioirwili be resolved -laterrThe exilea-arrived'oira commercial jetliner" from Mexico Thursday uighLThey had no luggage.

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A- Optional pedestal base to match above, $30 I The grenade attack on a bus was in Belfasts normally quiet suburb of Cherry Valley. The mhn killed was the lather of fivehildren. The- soldier was. killed Thursday night at a checkpoint at Stra-bane in County Tyrone, near foe border with the Irish republic. military aircraft The indictment was returned in UJS.

District Court Tuesday and suppressed until. Thursday by acting chief federal Jfidge Richard B. Austin so agepts could have more time to make arrests. Agents said the drug was purchased, in Vietnam, Cambodia end Laos and smuggled into the United States inside hollow television tubes. LAKEWOOD Volcano calms Lib dead in Arkansas I A CA1L4U.UU ns ikk'thb 1 CAU-SM-1111 OK US THIS REYKJAVIK More than a dpzar minor craters on the Hdgaf jell volcano fen silnThursday, ge(dngist9 hshes and molten lava still poured from la major eruption into the blackened landscape of Heimaey Island.

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state supporting debate that woman was on earth only serve man, Thursday defeated the, proposed equal rights to the U.S. Constitution. Its dead," Shirley McFarlin of Lit-' tie Rock, leader of the coalition of women groups that had been lobbying for the-measures ratification. -We will not push it further." JONATHAN, LIVINGSTON SEAGULL I I tion of the volcano at a distance. MLOD.t'1 NUMBER ONE BEST SEU.ER, NOW IN PAPER BACK 1.50: MAHTCOUPON I- DI dwr acami Builock'i.

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