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Climes She Final Edition Storms Possible Hundredth Year as a Daily and Sunday Newspaper Established as a Weekly in 1839 Shreveport, Louisiana, Saturday, March 13, 1971 Telephone 424-0373 Ten Cents 133rd Year Vol. 100 No. 106 One Killed, Seven Hurt Towns Near Texarkana By State Police Mafia Panel Told Vice Data Given Local Officials First id is? III 3:1:1 tt Tf 1 111: By Edgar Coltharp Times Capital Bureau BATON ROUGE State police evidence of gambling, prostitution, narcotics traffic, b-drinMng and pinball payoffs was turned over to Caddo and Bossier parish" authorities' in JIUJ" If IP 1969, a former state police undercover agent testified here Friday. "We wanted to determine whether the local authorities would do anything with it before we did' Vernon Fletcher said specifically of evidence on pinball payoffs. "The deci sion was made to let's see what those authorities will do with it." Fletcher told the Legislative Mafia Committee that he headed a sue to eight-week undercover probe in the Shreveport-Bos-sier City area, beginning in let go and enjoy the slide, while (right) Chris Lickley, 6, gives sister, Stephanie, 10 months, a push.

They are the children of Mr. and Mrs. William Lickley, 215 Normandy Village. (Times Photos by Billy Upshaw) It's Nearly Spring and time to be running, jumping or sliding and swinging time to shed coats and enjoy the mild Mrs. Charles Francis Pasquier, 9506 Village Green motions for 1-year-old Brian to May of 1969.

There was no local action The Associated Press A tornado that struck two Northeast Texas communities in a matter of minutes late Friday killed one man and injured at' least seven other persons while causing heavy property damage. The big twister, striking out of a hail-laden, vicious thunderstorm, hit first at Malta, east of Texarkana, and then skipp. 8 miles northeastward to Daniel's Chapel where most of the damage occurred. Killed at Daniel's Chapel was Jesse Lee Sanford, about 50, whose 3-year-old daughter was among three seriously injured persons brought to a Texarkana hospital. Damage A wintess said there was "extensive property damage" in Daniel's Chapel area with about five houses demolished.

Power was off in both that area and at Malta. Roads into each town were virtually blocked by fallen trees, debris and broken power lines and utility poles. In Arkansas, golf ball sized hail was reported at Ashdown and about 10 miles south of Mema. State Police reported marble sized hail, heavy rain and high winds on Arkansas 29 about eight miles north of Lcwisvillc. Police at Stamps reported winds of 50 to 60 miles an hour, hail and heavy rain in the area.

Several wires were blown down, officers said. The site of the damaging killer twisters, which struck at the towns of Midway and Leary as well as Malta and Daniel's Chapel, is in extreme Northeast Texas near the borders of Texas and Arkansas. i "The house, just exploded," Homer R. Edwards of the Malta community said after the storm in the Malta community near New Boston and DeKalb. Edwards was 20 feet away from the house in a pickup truck when the twister hit.

The truck was heavily damaged when it was picked up and slammed into a tree by the tornadic winds. Paul, 20, a son of Edwards, and the boy's mother were in the house when the twister struck. Mrs. Edwards escaped injury but Paul was taken to a to a Texarkana hospital for treatment of severe head injuries. Witnesses said the tornado spun along Farm Road 992 and was reported to have damaged or destroyed homes about 6 miles northwest of New Boston.

Funnels $5.25 Million Sliced Off until September of 1970 when Caddo Sheriff James Goslin led a massive gambling raid inside Shreveport. It netted 85 pinball $75,000 Lost To Burglars AtWinnfield machines, three dice tables and Funds Cut on Planned Shreveport Postal Unit two poker tables. To date there's been no Top Twenty Results DeRiddef 78 W.O. Boston 72 Southern Lab 83 Davidson 61 comparable raid by Bossier authorities. Probe Encouraged Fletcher said state police were encouraged to investieate By Stanley Tiner Of The Times Staff Re-evaluation of postal service policies and building State Public Works Director C.

H. (Sammy) Downs testifies before the Mafia probe committee at Baton Rouge yesterday to deny charges made by Life magazine reporter David Chandler earlier. (AP Wirephoto) vice in Shreveport-Bossier City I 1 74 61 Quitman Robeline ov ieaerai eruorcemeni om- cials, who promised to assist in procedures has resulted in "It will be a more functional type building," he added. Hargrove said the nationwide program of postal reform now under way had caused the deletion of bulk handling at the local station. Preferential mail, including newspapers and magazines, will be handled here, but bulk mail for the area will be handled at one of the cities included in the newly announced nationwide (Details in Sports Section) the probe.

Risley an admitted perjuror. Did you develop anv evi Times News Service WINNFIELD Burglars cut a hole through the roof of Tomlinson Jewelry Store at 109 East Court, opened the safe and made off with an estimated $75,000 in money and jewelry Thursday night -Price Tomlinson, the store owner, made the discovery when he opened the store Friday morning. According to Winn Sheriff Sanford Jordan, the burglar, or burglars, climbed to the roof with a ladder, cut a hole through the roof using a brace and bit. Using assorted tools, which the burelars left behind, the dence as a result of that Fletcher was recruited for special investigative work by Gen. David Wade immediately major changes in the manned Shreveport regional mail facilityincluding the paring of $5.25 million from an original $11 million estimated for the project.

investigation as to anv organ ized criminal activity?" asked after Wade assumed command of the state police force in early Marcello Is Released Assistant Postmaster General James Hargrove Friday clari 1969. Wade Testifies fied an earlier announcement From Prison that had left local political leaders and postal authorities believing Shreveport might get Wade followed Fletcher to the stand and testified that Fletcher worked for a time without bulk network probably Dallas, Hargrove said. New Orleans is also one of the cities selected for the bulk system. The Shreveport facility will serve as a handler of preferential mail for a number of area towns. Under the postal service plan safe was peeled.

Taken were 12 ladies diamond watches with SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) Rackets figure Carlos Marcello pay, but eventually drew $400 a diamonds, ranging from a quar month from a special inform' was released from federal pris ter to two carats; an assortment of mens and ladies wrist board and Caracci is reputed to be an a ssociate of Carlos Marcello, alleged boss of the Louisiana Mafia'. In this area of testimony Fletcher encountered a definitely hostile committee, particularly Victo Burssie, a member of the citizens ens advisory panel and president of the state AFL-CIO. Bussie asked Fletcher if he was the source for David Chandler including his name in Life magazine's story on alleged mob influence in state government. Fletcher said he does not recall discussing the matter with Chandler, but did tell Bussie that a federal agent named the labor leader as having received a call from Saia's Houston betting headquarters.

Life said Bussie and a number of other prominent Louisiana figures were phoned by Saia while the alleged gambler was in Houston. on here Friday and was headed er fund. Fletcher was never on the regular state police troraon Kean, chief counsel for the Legislative Mafia Committee. "Yes sir," answered Fletcher, prostitution, gambling, narcotics, b-drinking, things of that sort pinball payoffs. Fletcher said his men made no arrests, they just developed "cases." Rep.

Joe Cooper of Mansfield asked if reports on their activities were turned over to city or parish officials. "I think they were turned over to the parish authorities," us turning them over to one sheriff up there I don't recall his name we were called up to explain those cases to them. The other1 authorities had back to his Jefferson Parish, Shreveport will handle first home by car. a new facility in addition to a station on the Greenwood Road at the old Joy Drive-In site. As a result of the reevalua-tion, Hargrove said, the facility at the theater site will be of more inexpensive type architecture, smaller, and will not handle bulk mail.

The structure which now payroll, Wade emphasized. Wade also said he "terminal ed" Fletcher personally. class mail for Bossier City, Coushatta, Homer, Mansfield, Minden and Springhill. Second class mail for Arca A white-over-black luxury car picked up the 61-year-old Marcello at the front gates of the Federal Medical Center at Fletcher lives in Opelousas and teaches at Lafayette High school. He held the teaching fob dia, Benton, Cotton Valley, Springfield about 6 a.m.

Three has a $5.75 million price tag other persons were reported to while he worked for state Cullen, Haughton, Haynesville, Logansport, Mooringsport. Oil will be under contract betore have been with Marcello in the police. car. Gen. Wade said Fletcher was June 30, 1972, Hargrove said.

He said all post office con watches; five ladies diamonds, ranging from .56 to 3.63 carate; an assortment of wedding rings; two diamond necklaces; four Winnfield Senior Class rings; and the Tomlinson's personal jewelry which they stored in the Also taken from the safe was $1,500 in checks which were later found among papers thrown about the premises, $2,000 in cash and assorted bills which included four $50 bills and eight $100 bills. The burglars left the building the same way they entered, according to the sheriff. Tomlinson said there was no insurance on the missing jewelry. The tornado struck in the Malta vicinity after the Texas Department of Public Safety reported several funnel clouds in the air over Grayson and Fannin counties, about 200 miles Marcello was released one month early because of time off recommended for special intel struction programs had under ligence work by a federat them in their possession at that for good behavior in the six City, Plain Dealing, Ringgold and Vivian will be handled at the station. Hargrove said that much of the cost cutting at the facility was in the area of mechanized equipment that would have gone a vigorous review.

enforcement officer. Fletcher ume, ne said. That included "Most were oversized and not told the committee that heV the city, the sheriff and other west of Texarkana. month sentence he served on a conviction of intimidating an FBI agent in 1966. He has done some undercover work for Severe thunderstorms, accom realistically planned," he said.

"All of the announced Thursday will cost less than Refused to Identify the U. S. government before his fought the conviction for sev He specifically said both panied by gale force winds, and heaw hail struck in a score of been included for the handling state police experience, but Fletcher refused to identify oi ouik man. originally planned." E. Waggonner got the reports, Goslin and Bossier Sheriff W.

declined to say what type. era! He now faces a federal government move to deport him. any of his federal sources, usually saying he couldn't re The local plant will not be monumental, he said. and that the allegedcriminal He also said he participated in undercover investigations in places during the afternoon and evening. Late Friday night, after a rash of warnings and watches Several weeks ago, his attor member the agent's name.

He said he personally be neys filea motions with a feder activity was found in both Caddo and Bossier parishes. A previous committee wit al appeals court in New Or lieves there is crime trailer I ness, George Risley. testified earlier, the National Weather Service placed portions of East Texas, Central Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana under tornado leans asking the U.S. Immigration Department to reopen de in Louisiana but doesn have the "hard facts to go to court Leesvule, Lafayette, St. Mary parish and other locations in South Louisiana while working for Wade.

Evidence developed in the Leesville probe was not turned over to local authorities, he said, at the request of a federal that Shreveport Public Safetv portation proceedings so that with." Marcello can prove he is a U.S. Bussie asked him if he Commissioner George D'Artois knew of inball payoffs in Shreveport prior to Goslin's watch until 2 a.m. The greatest threat of torna citizen and not deportable. The immigration aDDeals received money from Life Magazine, and Fletchr replied, "Not raid in the city. does and severe thunderstorms, the NWS said, was in an area law enforcement agency.

The a dime. D'Artqia responded by calling 140 miles wide from 20 miles He said he does not remem its own investigation there and federal agency was conducting board has already declined one request to reopen proceedings on grounds it was "premature." They are expected to ber giving Chandler information south of Eldorado, to College Station, Tex. didn't want anythign to Hoffa to Return To U.S. Court NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -Teamsters President James Hoffa was ordered Friday to return to a federal courtroom where his troubles with the Justice Department began more than eight years ago.

This time, he must answer a lawsuit seeking to remove him and Frank Fitzsimmons, his handpicked assistant, as officers of the union and to place the union in receivership. A hearing is scheduled April 1 in the courtroom here where Hoffa allegedly sought to bribe jurors seated to try him late in 1962 on a conspiracy charge. So much interest was generated by the championshiD heavv Officials Deny fere or conflict with it. from his Houston file, and said that Chandler had free run of state police headquarters at the Earlier, heavy thunderstorms resume in June. The government said recently Fletcher was subpoenaed by swept through Central Texas Chandler Claims weight boxing match that one of STROLLER'S readers called to tell about finding a copy of The Shreveport Times dated July 5, 1919.

The big sports news on that day, according to CALVIN ARNOLD of Campti, was about JACK DEMPSEY knocking JESS that a 1967 court decision in the committee in connection Houston, gambling raid time and could have obtained it on his own. Italy held that Marcello could be considered Italian because WILLARD out in the third with his investigation of a Wade said he has no knowledge of Chandler gaining unre that resulted in the arrest of his father was and that his son, Carlos, has not repudiated the citizenship. and North Texas with heavy winds and big hail rfom the Red River Valley southward to west of Austin. There were at least three reports of tornadoes sighted in the Sherman-Denison area of North Texas in about three hours before 7 p.m. Between Gunter and Tioga, the Carmel Baptist Church was round.

ARNOLD said WILLARD was a "great big man" -but DEMPSEY "just cut him to pieces." Pancakes All Dy- The legislative Mafia committee Friday listened for more than five hours to denials by state officials to charges of corruption by Life magazine writer David Chandler. Details on Page 3-A (Tickie) Saia of Baton Rouge and Frank Caracci of New two Louisiana men; FrankJ. Orleans. Saia was a member of the state contractor's licensing Times Radio KWKH 1130 on your dial A pancake breakfast that will demolished by a twister. Nobody Deemed Inadvisable last all day win be neia trom 6 a.m.

to 8 p.m. Sunday at Broadmoor United Methodist Church. The flapjacks are said stricted access to state ponce files, but to be sure about it, the committee will have to ask everybody who works there. Fletcher told the committee he went to Houston to look into the Saia arrest at Wade's direction. Wade said he didn't send him, but that Fletcher's immediate superior, Col.

Jack Ott, might have. Fletcher also denied being Life's source for the magazine's claim that former Asst. State Police Commander Ben Ragusa arranged bond for Saia in Houston. He said he heard Ragusa's name mentioned in this connection while in Unn- to be the finest since the little was reported injured. A twister in the same area and probably the same funnel cloud damaged a house and killed several head of cattle.

At Howe, a tornado was re U.S. Opposes Ransom for POWs fellows poured the batter for Paul Bunyan's breakfast." Proceeds from the pancake sale will go toward a goal of $5,000 blockine anv well-intentioned ef By Lewis Gulick prisoners for cash or reparations or refusing outright re ported by the DPS moving north of U.S. 75. It lifted into the clouds and then dipped down to of the youtn ot tne cnurcn wno fort to have release of one or all of the prisoners," McCloskey WASHINGTON (AP) The State Department said Friday it plan to buy a bus. The bus will and I therefore do not understand the basis of a report which says that we have been in contact." "In general we feel that ransom is an inadvisable process Thunderstorms Are Predicted Warm temperatures! and possible thunderstorms or thunder-showers have been forecast for the Ark-La-Tex today 6y the National Weather Service.

Louisiana has partly cloudy skies due today and increasing cloudiness and showers and thunderstorms expected tonight. Highs due today are 74 to 80 and lows due tonight are 60 to 66. Highs expected Sunday are in the 70s. Probability of rain tonight is 30 per cent. Partly cloudy skies turning to considerably cloudy tonight are forecast for East Texas.

Cloudy and possible thunderstorms are due Sunday. Highs expected today and Sunday are 78 to 85. Lows due tonight are 54 to 64. Arkansas has considerable cloudiness due through Sunday. Scattered showers or thunder-showers also are expected.

Highs due today and Sunday are in the 70s. Lows forecast tonight are in the lower-50s. The weather map and details may be found on page 9-A today. i added. demolish a farm house and destroy a barn several hundred yards away.

But "we officially would not lease, turn the men over to a neutral country for internment. The North Vietnamese have rebuffed repeated U.S. attempts to obtain prisoner release is against using ransom to free U.S. prisoners of war and disa ton, but labeled it a rumor. condone or initiate that Kind oi vowed official backing for a re settlement." he said.

also De usea Dy omer envisions of the church. Adult tickets are $1 and the price is 75 cents for children under 12. Mrs. Gwen Dawson is general chairman. (More Stroller on Page 3-A) ported move by some wealthy through the Paris peace talks.

Americans to do so. Inside he dimes McCloskey's remarks were in response to questions about a reported effort by Bing Crosby and a number of wealthy associ Washington officials also say Hanoi has failed to live up to Geneva Convention rules in "Our position," State Depart ment press otticer Robert J. McCloskey said, "is that the re Three Sections-34 Pages dealing with the captives. ates to negotiate ransom for lease of prisoners of war is a Larry Crosby was quoted as Editorials 6-A Ways to Ease Court Burdens humane question which should saying tne state Department is for governments or individuals to pursue in cases where the Americans held are in official employment, whether in uniform or not," he said. He said that in cases of U.S.

officials kidnaped by terrorists such as has recently occurred in Turkey and Uruguay a policy of paying ransom would tend to encourage more kidnapings. U.S. officials said further that the North Vietnamese have been cool in the past to the idea of freeing for ransom.) Hndyman 14-C American war prisoners held by North Vietnam. Larry Crosby, the singer's bother, was quoted in Beverly backing the unofficial effort for Offered Page 9-A Nixon Flays New Isolation- be settled on the basis of tne ue-neva Convention on prisoners of Hills, as saying that an Alvarez Amuse Astrology Bridge Business Classified Comics Digest Deaths 8-b: 7- 2-B 8- 7- 8- 5-C 2-A 10-A Today9 Chuckle Women are divided into two main classes: those who don't believe everything their husbands tell them, and those who haven't any husbands. Heloise z-b Landers 1-B Markets 6-C Porter 8-C Sports 1-C TV Radio 6-B Weather 9-A ists Marines Begin Training emissary, John G.

Fairfax, went to Vientiane, Laos, to sound out the North Vietnamese on whether they would free the Page 5-A 'Low Stress' Page 7-A possible prisoner ransom and that funds for a ransom might be solicited from the American public. McCloskey said "we have not been contacted by Mr. Crosby I war and not on the basis of ransom." "We must be practical in our concern for prisoners of war and not be in the portion of t.r.