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Wednesday, September 2, 1981 low City PrewClUzen Nazi slave boss dies in city he tried to destroy Albert Speer, Hitler's chief wartime architect, dies in London LONDON AP) Albert Speer, the Nazi slave-labor boss who spurred German war production despite massive Allied air raids, died Tuesday during a visit to London, the city blitzed by the bombs and rockets of the war machine he ran. He was 76. Speer, whose post-war memoirs provided the most detailed account of the inner working of the Third Reich and made him a rich man, died of an apparent stroke. The man who once said he was "mesmerized" by Adolf Hitler and served him as chief architect and production chief, was in Britain for a television interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. aircraft production rose from 12,400 planes in 1941 to 45,000 in 1944 despite round-the-clock Allied bombing of German manufacturing centers.

Some experts say Speer's production expertise extended the war by two years. In his memoirs, part of which were smuggled out of prison, Speer claimed that toward the end of the war he turned against Hitler's policies, and entertained ideas of pumping gas in the Fuehrer's bunker. However, he said Hitler's power over him persisted. Speer's death leaves former Deputy Fuehrer Rudolf Hess as the only senior member of the Nazi hierarchy still alive. After recording the first segment of the Interview Tuesday morning, Speer returned to London's Park Court Hotel, where he collapsed in the afternoon.

He was taken unconscious to St. Mary's Hospital and died there at 8:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m. CDT.the hospital said. The BBC said Speer was being interviewed for a documentary about Hitler's proposed cultural center in the dictator's hometown of Linz, Austria. Speer, the project's chief architect, was questioned by Cambridge University historian Norman Stone, who said the ex-Nazi "showed no sign of strain." Speer, who engineered Hitler's rise to power and later put his organiza tional skills to work running the Third Reich's enormous industrial complex, was convicted by the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal in 1946 of crimes against humanity.

Described at Nuremberg as one of Hitler's "closest "personal confidants," Speer was convicted for his expansion of the slave labor system, using civilians from occupied countries to power the Nazi war machine. The only senior Nazi to admit responsibility for his crimes, Speer served a 20 year sentence at Spandau Prison in West Berlin. Speer was born March 19, 1905, the son of a prominent architect in Mannheim. As a young architech in 1931, two years before Hitler rose to power, Speer joined the Nazi Party and rose quickly through the ranks on the basis of his expertise in organizing the giant rallies that marked Hitler's ascension. While still in his 20s, Speer was given the task of designing a new Berlin, complete with a quarter-mile-long marbled chancellery, that was to reflect Hitler's view of Nazi grah-dure.

Like most of the dictator's other projects, the Berlin development was stalled when Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, starting World War II. Three years into the war, Speer became Hitler's minister for arman-ents. Under his leadership, German ALBERT SPEER -ST" mm World A 'isil i r3e? A Solidarity gets broadcast time WARSAW, Poland (AP) Poland's communist regime reluctantly gave Solidarity 20 minutes of national TV and radio time, and Lech Walesa used it to say his 10 million union members want to serve their country, not take over the government. "If there are problems we should sit down and talk," the chief of the independent labor federation said in the prime-time broadcast Tuesday night.

The labor leader said Solidarity is demanding its own regular TV and radio programs and newspaper columns not to attack the government but to "explain things." Mother charged in infant death NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (AP) A Canadian woman whose 2-month-old son was swept over Niagara Falls last weekend has been charged with second-degree murder in his death, authorities said. Dunia Sayegh, 27, was arrested at her home Tuesday and held without bail. "She was arrested after an exhaustive investigation," said police spokesman Donald Butts. He would not give a motive for the alleged murder. The incident took place Saturday while Mrs.

Sayegh was visiting the famous Horseshoe Falls with relatives. Mrs. Sayegh told authorities she was standing at the brink of the falls holding the baby, Hesham, in her arms when she became dizzy and lost her grip on him, and he tumbled over a railing into the rushing torrent. The baby's body has not been found. -m at.

v. I XT 1 i vr k- Hi-ii. a.m.- y- AP Uaerphoto Texas-size washday Nation 'Charming' bank robber admits guilt RENO, Nov. (AP) The bank robber stood before the Judge, describing in consummate detail the three armed robberies to which he was pleading guilty. He remembered what the notes said, what he was wearing, where the bank was, how much money he got.

The judge recalled another suspect who accidentally described a robbery he wasn't accused of committing. "It's easy to get confused," said Michael Ted Bronson. Bronson would know. The man who is described as "charming," "likeable" and "cooperative" has confessed to 23 robberies in a dozen states, including Iowa. On Tuesday, he pleaded guilty before U.S.

District Court Judge Bruce R. Thompson to three of the holdups one in Waterloo, Iowa, In December 1979, and two at the same bank in the Northrldge shopping mall near Milwaukee, in April 1978 and July 1979. Politely and firmly, he outlined for the judge how he held up the banks with the threat of having a gun he said he never carried. Thompson responded with interest and an occasional grin. The product of a strict Mormon upbringing in Monticelio, Utah, Bronson, 34, is already serving a 20-year sentence for six robberies and an attempted escape.

He has yet to be charged with the remaining 19 counts, but that could happen at any time. In court Tuesday, Thompson asked Bronson if he was certain he wanted to plead guilty. "My intention in the beginning, your honor, was to plead guilty," Bronson said. He added that he had no thought of defending himself against the charges. Indeed, during an earlier sentencing, he said the only time he felt good during his entire bank robbing career, which began in April 1977 and ended with a robbery in Reno last December, was when he confessed everything to the FBI.

That confession was made against the advice of his attorney, federal Public Defender Martin Weiner, who nonetheless calls Bronson "the most likeable client I've got." Bronson, a baldish, dark-haired man with a bushy beard and a wry smile, declined an interview Tuesday, saying he didn't want to embarrass his parents. But Weiner discussed his enigmatic client's former lifestyle. "He didn't really enjoy it at all. He had quite a bad drinking problem. Also, his very restrictive Mormon upbringing might have caused him to go to the other extreme in reaction." Lori Sloveck (left) and Mrs.

Joe Schinder of tral Texas community Monday and Tuesday. Gindler's Department Store in Halletsville, Up to four feet of water covered downtown Texas, wash the mud from clothing that was Halletsville streets as 18 inches of rain hit the damaged by flood water hitting this south-cen- area. Weather Heavy rain batters Texas By The Associated Press Showers and thundershowcrs continued from the lower Great Lakes to the western Gulf Coast and south-central Texas today, with heavy rain in eastern Texas and northern Louisiana. Thunderstorms packing strong winds battered western Pennsylvania and showers and thundershowers were scattered along the southern Atlahtic Coast, the eastern Gulf Coast and the northern Rockies. The rain-swollen Iavaca and Guadalupe rivers in southern Texas kept residents from their homes for the second straight day.

The Guadelupe flooded the city of Cuero, 80 miles southeast of San Antonio. Tropical storm Emily brought thundershowers, rough seas and squalls to Bermuda today. FORECAST FOR IOWA CITY AND SOUTHEAST IOWA Wednesday, Sept. 2 Also south central Iowa Clear to partly cloudy through Thursday. Low tonight mid 50s.

High Thursday upper 70s. Winds southeast 5 to 10 mph tonight. EXTENDED FORECAST Friday Through Sunday Sunny, mild days and clear, cool nights through the period. Highs in the 70s. Lows in the mid 40s to low 50s.

IOWA CITY TEMPERATURE The high Tuesday was 73 degrees. The low early today was 57 degrees. At 11 a.m. today, the temperature was 70. POLLEN COUNT The pollen count for the past 24-hour period was 12.

ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS Sunrise today, 6:33 a.m.; Thursday, 6:34 a.m. Sunset today, 7:38 p.m.; Thursday, 7.36 p.m. The moon rose today at 10:28 a.m. and will set at 10 p.m. IOWA RIVER DATA Corps of Engineers Readings Stages at Iowa City and Iine Tree, unreported; Coralvillc dam tail waters, 649.89 feet above sea level; reservoir level at dam, 680.53 feet above sea level; discharge rate, 600 cubic feet per second; inflow rate, 990 cubic feet per second.

Temperatures Wednesday By The Associated Press Actress Vera-Ellen dies of cancer HOLLYWOOD (AP) Actress Vera-Ellen, famed for waltzing through the golden era of Hollywood in movies with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, is dead at the age of 55. She died of cancer Sunday at UCLA Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Bonnio Whitham said Tuesday. Having starred in such classic films as "White Christmas" with Bing Crosby and "On the Town" with Kelly and Frank Sinatra, she was considered "one of the great dancers of the screen," according to A.C. Lyles, a producer at Paramount studios and longtime friend. In 1954, she married oilman Victor Rothschild.

They divorced in 1966, and since then, she had lived in seclusion in the Hollywood Hills, declining offers to do stage musicals or movies. Crewless train rolls 10 miles SHELLEY, Idaho (AP) A crewless train slowly rolled 10 miles before a Union Pacific Railroad agent chased it in his car, hopped aboard and set the brakes. R.D. Tincher, UP regional public relations director in Salt Lake City, said the four locomotives were parked in the train yard at Idaho Falls Tuesday morning, with the engines off and the brakes on. The brakes apparently slipped off and the train rolled out onto the main line, moving south to Shelley.

UP agent Kenneth Marler, 53, called the dispatcher to report the four-engine train had passed his depot at 10:30 a.m., minus a crew. Tincher said Marler then ran to his car and chased the runaway train to about one mile south of Shelley, where he was able to get ahead of the train, board it and set the brakes. I'Maverick' recuperating from ride HOLLYWOOD (AP) Actor James Garner, recuperating from broken ribs he suffered while filming his new "Bret Maverick" television series, is anxious to get back in the saddle, his publicist says. Garner, 53, was at home with his wife, Lois on Tuesday. He was hospitalized for a week following the accident at Burbank Studios Aug.

20, when he fell from a machine that simulates the movement of a horse during close-up photography. NASA rocket ran out of 'gas'' WASHINGTON (AP) It pays to check the fuel tank, even on a rocket. The National Aeronautics and Space Aclrninistration said Tuesday that 'a Delta rocket failed to carry two satellites into desired orbit because an engineer did not make certain the second-stage tank was full. "It was simple human error," said Ken Senstad, a NASA spokesman. "It's the first time in memory that something like this has ever hap-! pened as far as I know." The satellites launched Aug.

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