The Daily Reporter from Dover, Ohio • Page 2

A-2 DOVER-NEW PHILADELPHIA, OHIO $280,000 Nationwide extortion plot is foiled COLUMBUS, 6hto (AP) The Nationwide Insurance Co. issued a brief statement commending the FBI Thursday shortly after it was announced that the FBI had arrested a former Nationwide employe, who allegedly sought to extort $280,000 from the company by bomb threats. The suspect, Glenn R. Schubert, 45, of White Plains, N.Y., was arrested Thursday and charged with extortion. He is being held in the Federal House of Detention in New York in $75,000 bail.

U.S. Magistrate Martin Jacobs scheduled a hearing Oct. 27. "On behalf of Nationwide Insurance companies and all associates, I would like to commend the FBI for its diligence in working to 'solve the extortion plot directed at our organization," said' Dean Jeffers, general Chairman and chief execu- 'tive the firm. "During this period of stress it was a source of comfort observing the professional manner in which the FBI conducted its investigation." Schubert has been charged with mailing a letter to Nationwide's president on Oct.

2 in which he said if the $280,000 was not turned over to him highly sophisticated armed devices would go off in various Nationwide offices across the country. According to Special Agent Palmer Baken of the Cincinnati FBI office, Schubert's letter carefully outlined a money delivery route from Columbus to Allegheny State Park on the New York-Pennsylvania border. The instructions called for stops at 60 different intervals at which points further instructions were FBI agents followed the route disguised as messengers and when they reached Allegheny State Park shots were fired at them by an armed suspect but he escaped in a heavly wooded area. The ransom money was not delivered Asst. U.S.

Atty. Jeffrey Harris told U.S. Magistrate Jacobs that Schubert is unemployed and "an admitted alcoholc." The suspect reportedly was a 1950 graduate of the University of Buffalo. Schubert became a claims, adjuster for Nationwide in Buffalo in 1953'and from 1963 until he left the company in 1970 he served as district claims manager in the White Plains area. The FBI in New York On Man convicted in patrol shooting CLEVELAND (AP) A 23-year-old Cleveland man released from prison last year after serving a sentence for armed robbery and shooting an Ohio Highway Patrolman has been sentenced to life imprisonment for first-degree murder.

A Cuyahoga County common pleas court judge handed down the sentence Thursday after a jury found Alva Campbell Jr. guilty in the death of Vietnam veteran William Dovalosky, 24, during a bar holdup in April. The shooting occurred in an East Side bar owned by the victim's father. Campbell previously served four years in jail for an armed robbery and shooting conviction in Summit County in 1967. Sinclair guilty in trade suit CINCINNATI (UPI) The Sinclair Oil Co.

was found guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court here of violating federal restraint of trade and anti-trust laws. The blue-ribbon jury that brought down the verdict could award Champion Oil which filed the charges, $19.8 million, which would be three times the amount Champion asked. It is standard practice in anti-trust damage suits to award triple damages. Champion claimed in its suit, filed in 1969, that it contracted 11 years before to sell Sinclair Oil products in seven service stations in Butler County.

Champion said, however, it found the products unacceptable and Sinclair refused to release Champion from the lease-back agreement. The jury empaneled to hear the case was selected on the basis of education and familiarity with technical lease and lease-back agreements. Teamster suit claim raised CLEVELAND (AP) A dissident Teamsters group has increased the claim of its pending suit in U.S. District Court by $10 million. Attorneys for Unity Committee No.

24 in Akron, a branch of the Teamsters Union rank and file, filed the claim increase Thursday in a request for intervention in the class action suit against the Teamsters Union pension fund. A counter action was then taken by the Teamsters union lawyers who asked the federal court for dismissal of the suit and deletion of the additional claim. The original suit, filed on behalf of former teamster Stanley Flowers, asked for $1 million. Flowers claims he was turned down in his pension request. Connally touts Nixon in Ohio CLEVELAND (AP) Former Texas governor John B.

Connally, chairman of the Democrats for Nixon campaign, says-the main issue of the 1972 presidential campaign is "the safety and security of this country and the role it should play in this particular time in history." Connally told a City Club audience here Thursday that the Nixon administration of which he was formerly a member was moving steadily ahead, both at home and "We're doing more and more social programs than ever before in the history of this country, "said Connally. He did admit, however that the 5.4 per cent unemployment level was' 1 Enarson backs Ohio tax COLUMBUS (AP) Harold Enarson, Ohio State University's new president, in a letter to students, faculty and staff Thursday urged them to vote against repeal of the state's income tax. Enarson said he has strong convictions about taking stands on partisan political issues, but he also believes it is his duty as president to speak out clearly "to any serious threat to the vitality and integrity of the i Plain Dealer strike time set CLEVELAND Newspaper guild officials representing Cleveland Plain Dealer editorial employes have set a deadline of six p.m. today for an agreement to be reached on a new contract. Guild officials say they will allow the newspaper to publish Saturday but that picket lines would be set up at 9 a.m.

that day and further work halted. JCU deficit seen Columbus fund CLEVELAND, Ohio John Carroll Univer: sity faces a deficit tor the first time in recent history, but there will be no tuition increase at the school. JCU president, the Rev. Henry Birkenhauer, told trustees this week that recent tuition hikes are one reason enrollment at the school has dropped by 410 students in the past four years. A deficit of $250,000 is expected this year and a loss of twice that much in 1973.

Fr. Birkenhauer said the school will instead intensify its fund-raising efforts arid step up recruitment activities. surplus predicted COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Columbus' finance director has predicted the city will end the year with a $400,000 surplus despite previous statements that a financial crisis existed. Director Alvin Peterjohn made the prediction after reading the city auditor's report on projected revenue. Auditor Hugh Dorrian estimates the city will take in $59.7 million $5.6 million more than predicted in November, 1971.

The 1971 prediction did not include the recent $5.7 million Columbus will receive in revenue sharing. Schubert was traced through metal shears recovered at the scene of the forest drop off point. It did not explain what the shears yeatf contained the same were used for. The FBI peculiarity as the extortion added that letters written by notes-a colon always fol- the suspect over the past six lowed by a dash, hHUwUfc he lived with his wire health hazards in Ohio COLUMBUS (AP) The director of Ohio's new Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that "no health hazard etistt" dt this time despite ftfedwal Ohio community water supplies failed to meet bacterial sampling standards two monlhs during lastjear, Ira L. Whitman, who was sworn into the new state pelt the Ohio EPA has run tests since that time which showed the blicteria count would have to get "much fcotsC to pftaeit a ialdan- ger.

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