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The Courier-News A-8 Saturday. February 18. 1978 LJV VI nfhe nafon Suit charges Lance joined in nlrit iiYriot ncrvc of firm I "aW WsT I kl tYNOKES the bank's operation. NOKES I stood to have played a central role in thi stood to have played a central role in the Lance is a close personal friend of Pres ident Carter. He resigned as director of the Office of Management and Budget last year after questions were raised in Congress and by federal banking agencies over his management of his personal finances and of banks that he controlled, including the National Bank of Georgia.

The Bank of Credit and Commerce manages Arab funds, and Abidi was under 1,, Boyle Jury out MEDIA. Pa. (AP) A jury began deliberations at 5:30 p.m Friday in the murder retrial of former United Mine Workers President W.A. "Tony" Boyle. Delaware County Court Judge Francis Catania ordered the jurors into their chamber behind the courtroon after delivering a 50-minute message on points of law and possible verdicts.

Boyle is charged with three counts of murder in the 1969 slayings of UMW insurgent Joseph "Jock" Yablonski and Yablonski's wife and daughter. Catania said the jurors could return any of four verdicts guilty of murder in the first degree, guilty of second degree murder. of voluntary manslaughter or not guilty. "It's not necessary to prove a motive." Catania told the jurors, but he added that they must be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt of Boyle's alleged participation in the killings to convict him of murder of any degree. recent sale of Lance's stock in the Georgia bank to Saudi Arabian financier Ghaith R.

Pharaon. The complaint against Lance and the others alleges they have "engaged in an unlawful conspiracy secretly to acquire control of Financial General through purchases of Financial General stock at premium prices from a select group of favored shareholders." ft 4 response to a similar recording in Houston in which the Nazi Party offered $5,000 "for every non-white killed during an attack on a white person." The Nazis included Jews among the "non-whites." Paintings stolen ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. (AP) -Eight paintings valued at $500,000 were reported stolen Friday from Elayne Galleries police said. The gallery, owned by Russell and Elayne Lindberg and their daughter, Bonnie, had opened a special Norman Rockwell show Thursday evening, and the paintings were missed about 1 a.m., Bonnie Lindberg said.

Want formal probe WASHINGTON (AP) Thirty-two House Democrats said Friday they want a formal ethics committee investigation into allegations against Pennsylvania Democratic Reps. Daniel Flood and Joshua Eilberg. They said a formal investigation is imperative to give the two congressmen due process and to show that Congress "has the will and the desire to properly police the behavior of its members." They asked the House ethics committee to investigate whether Flood misused his position as a congressman in connection wi5h business interests in Haiti and the Bahamas. The congressmen asked the panel to look into allegations against both Flood and Eilberg in connection with federal financing for the Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia. Kidnappers get life OAKLAND, Calif.

(AP) Three Chowchilla kidnappers were sentenced yesterday to life in prison for their part in the 1976 abduction of 26 school children and their bus driver. The two eldest kidnappers were given no chance for parole. Judge Leo Deegan said the planning that went into the crime, and the fact that he ruled earlier that three of the victims suffered bodily harm, forced him to abide by the maximum sentence for James Schoenfeld, 26, and Fred Woods. 26. But Deegan said a state law in effect at the time of the kidnapping, which allows criminals under the age of 23 to be considered for parole, would be honored in the case of Richard Schoenfeld.

23, James' brother. In the first public comment by any of the defendants. James Schoenfeld took the witness stand Thursday for three hours of testimony. "It was a good plan," he testified, shaking his head and laughing halfheartedly. "But it was crazy." Bounty for Nazis NEW YORK (AP) A $500 bounty on "every Nazi lawfully killed during an attack on a Jew" is being offered in a recorded telephone message by the Jewish Defense League.

"We're absolutely serious," said Bonnie Pechter. a JDL spokesman whose voice is on the tape. "We don't want you to think that Nazis are worth $500 they're not worth a nickel but we'll pay off for any Nazi that is killed." Ms. Pechter said the tape was in In the state Crews clean up some of the 10,000 gallons of oil that coat three miles of shoreline In Marblehead, after spilling from the oil tanker Global Hope. The Greek-registered tanker, shown In background, went aground during last week's blizzard.

order to cooperate with SCI By R. GREGORY WASHINGTON (AP) Former Budget Director Bert Lance was accused in a lawsuit Friday of joining in a conspiracy to unlawfully acquire control of Financial General Bankshares, a banking holding company here with assets of $2.2 billion. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court by the holding company, which operates banks in several states and the Union First National Bank in Washington. It was announced by Jack W.

Beddow, the secretary and vice president of Financial General. The bank currently is controlled by a group headed by former Secretary of the Navy G. William Middendorf Lance has refused all comment on the recent turmoil involving control of the bank, although it is understood he met recently with Middendorf and other bank officials. Neither Lance nor his Washington attorney. Robert A.

Altman, was immediately available for comment. It has not been disclosed publicly how much stock, if any. has actually changed hands during the current dispute. Both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Reserve Board are conducting investigations of the events involving Financial General. The SEC has temporarily suspended trading in its stock.

Besides Lance, others named in the suit included the London-based Bank of Credit and Commerce and its head. Pakistan-born Agha Hasan Abidi. Also named were Eugene J. Metzger, Jackson Stephens, Stephens Systematics, Inc. and "certain John Doe defendants." Speculation has been rampant in financial circles that Lance was trying to negotiate control of Financial General for a group of Middle East investors and that he possibly would himself assume a role in Judge won't discuss Bruno told TRENTON A Superior Court judge yesterday ordered one reputed mob boss to talk, but then the judge fell silent himself.

The day before in Newark, a second reputed boss broke his public silence, in what was believed to be his first court testimony in seven years. Yesterday, reputed South Jersey-Philadelphia crime boss Angelo Bruno was ordered by Superior Court Judge George Y. Schoch to answer questions about organized crime from the State Commission of Investigation. But Judge Schoch refused to discuss his ruling after a closed. 90-minute hearing and walked away from reporters' questions, saying only.

"The matter's been resolved and he'll continue testifying." He refused a request by attorneys for the State Commission on Investigation to cite Angelo Bruno for contempt of court for refusing to answer questions last month about a 1962 taped conversation with Simone (Sam the Plumber) De-Cavalcante. Meanwhile, testimony ended yesterday in a hearing to decide whether reputed mobster Simone "Sam the Plumber" De-Cavalcante owes more than $9 million in back taxes. Theodore Bundy scowls as Pensacola police check his handcuffs In Escambia County Court, In Florida. Bundy Is a strong suspect In the bludgeon murders of two Florida State University sorority sisters, f- New Jersey and Florida, he rose to na- I tionai notoriety in 1969 when transcripts of his taped conversations with mob leaders were released. Those tapes named alleged i friendly politicians and helped establish Gov.

Brendan T. Byrne as a politician "who couldn't be bought." Asked if he was aware that gambling profits are taxable, the 65-year-old De- Cavalcante said angrily: "How would I know? Ask the gamblers." The dramatic testimony of the ailing DeCavalcante, who lives in Trenton, came as his lawyers, Fred Randall and Richard H. Stein of Newark, began their fight against the $9.2 million tax bill, which includes penalties and interest. The Internal Revenue Service based its bill on his 1971 guilty plea to charges that 1 he masterminded a $12-million-a-year gambling and numbers operation from hit Kenilworth plumbing business from 196S 1 to 1969. i He tried unsuccessfully to retract that plea later in 1971, and much of the testimony during the eight-hour session Wednesday was aimed at poking holes in that plea.

If DeCavalcante's lawyers succeed in convincing Tax Court Judge Irene F. Scott that the plea should not hold, then the government's tax case, which depends on his gambling involvement, would be seri- ouslvhurt. I On Thursday. Cavalcante took the stand in U.S. Tax Court, making an emotional plea against government claims he owes the taxes on illegal gambling profits.

Bruno, who was granted immunity from prosecution during his testimony, refused to answers questions last month when asked about the DeCavalcante conversation, part of a series of tapes recorded by federal officials in the 1960 s. The conversation, lifted from the FBI's "DeCavalcante Tapes" of the 1960's involved decision-making processess of "La Cosa Nostra." according to the SCI. SCI Counsel Neil Casey III said the commission will set a new hearing for Bruno to see if he is responsive to organized crime questions as ordered by Judge Schoch. Under state law. the SCI is empowered during an investigation to seek a contempt order against a witness who refuses to respond to questions after being granted imunity from prosecution.

Bruno served a prison term for contempt of court but was released in 1973 on medical grounds. He agreed to talk last year when Schoch ordered him to prison after rejecting his plea that he was too sick to talk. DeCavalcante's testimony earlier in the week before Tax Court Judge Irene F. Scott is believed to be his first public court testimony in more than seven years. Still believed by state authorities to be active in organized crime operations in Board says: Shorted by weather NEW YORK (AP) New York is getting the short end of federal disaster relief because of "a prevailing notion that severe weather is a natural and continuous condition in te Northeast." Gov.

Hugh Carey complained Friday. Carey, in written testimony submitted to a congressional task force, said New Yorkers are starting to think "other parts of the country seem to get much faster action" when they request a federal disaster declaration. within recent weeks involving lewdness and robbery. "In the robbery case, the crime was committed by hitchhikers against the motorist who picked them up," said F. Joseph Carragher, executive director of the Parkway.

Iri the lewdness incident, the hitchhiker was the victim, he said. Carragher stressed that any pedestrian use is strictly prohibited on the Parkway. "Even when motorists have broken down they should stay in their cars' until help arrives and not attempt to walk on the Parkway." he said. Jersey accused MOUNT HOLLY (AP) The state is abusing its power by suing several prominent businessmen for allegedly acquiring thousands of acres of the Pine Barrens through land fraud, the businessmen's attorneys charged here Friday. They accused the state of trying to confiscate the land for itself and encouraging the breakdown of the present land title system.

However, a deputy attorney general argued that the businessmen themselves had abused the state's courts and its land recording system by tricking it into putting its "imprimatur" on Pinelands the men didn't own. slayings tioned by police. Some report as much as $170 worth of clothes and food have been run up on the stolen cards in the last three weeks. The Tallahassee task force today also questioned female FSU students whose campus identification or gasoline credit cards were found in Bundy's possession. FBI agents here said Bundy is a prime suspect in a series of murders and disappearances of young women three dozen of them the last four years in California, Oregon.

Washington. Utah, and Colorado. His only criminal conviction was for a 1974 kidnapping of Carol daRonche in a Salt Lake City suburb. Seattle area police three years ago formed a "Ted Squad" to investigate the disappearances of several young women in northwestern state parks, who vanished after talking to a Volkswagen driver named Ted. The remains of at least six of them were found on mountainside locations east of Seattle.

Police said Thursday the FBI fugitive faces questioning about the rape-murders of 36 women who were between the ages of 19 and 24, but federal law enforcement sources told GNS today that he also will be questioned about the disappearance of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach of Lake City eight days ago. The schoolgirl left her classroom to retrieve a purse from another campus building and hasn't been seen since. Bundy has a psychology degree from the University of Washington, at one time worked as a staffer for the Seattle Crime Advisory Commission, and as a counselor on a telephone crisis line. He also assisted In a Republican gubernatorial campaign in Washington state. Police here say he has been in contact with Atlanta attorney Millard Farmer, one of the South's most famous defense attorneys, who has represented more than 100 murder defendants.

Gets rights grant NEWARK (AP) A Rutgers-New-ark professor has received a $49,000 federal grant to study the key role of 19th-century state courts in developing American civil liberties. Dr. Jonathan Lurie. associate professor of history, said he will use the grant from the National Endowment for; the Humanities to examine every state's appellate court record in civil liberties from 1865 to 1917. He also will examine the briefs of relevant cases to determine where lawyers drew up their arguments to support the liberties.

Bid to buy line SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Officials of a major New Jersey trucking firm say they have been approached about purchasing the financially troubled Pacific Far East Line. Executives of A-P-A Transport of North Bergen, confirmed that they met with PFEL officers in New York on Tuesday for "preliminary discussion's about the shipping line's future." No details of the talks were revealed. A-P-A is a major trucking line in New England, New Jersey and Pennsylvania with revenues which exceeded $50 million last year. Mystery man By JOHN HANCHETTE Gannett News Service PENSACOLA. Fla.

State prosecutors and FBI agents today are trying to piece together the recent history of Theodore Robert Bundy, 31, a handsome, clever mystery man identified late Thursday night as one of the agency's "Ten Most Wanted" felons. Bundy is being held here in connection with an assault on a Pensacola patrolman after being arrested on suspicion of car theft. But more importantly, top state law enforcement officials have made him a strong suspect in the highly publicized January bludgeon murders of two Florida State University sorority sisters. He also is wanted by 25 separate law enforcement agencies in 5 different states for questioning in connection with the sex slayings of 36 women. i Bundy was apprehended in the wee hours of Wednesday morning on Cervantes Street here after two warning shots from a police officer.

The lawman said the motorist kicked him in the face when he questioned him about the orange Volkswagen listed by police as a stolen car that he was driving. Bundy at first described himself as Kenneth R. Misner, 29 with plenty of credentials to prove it but Gannett News Service soon learned the real Misner was a Florida State University Ail-American track star and graduate assistant at the school, and was safe at home, if somewhat chagrined, in Tallahassee. A Tallahassee task force of detectives Investigating the Chi Omega sorority slayings became immediately Interested when almost two dozen credit cards recently reported missing in the Florida capital city and three FSU coed IDs were found on Bundy. Alerted.

FBI agents finally matched him up with (i rather sordid that had Financial reforms could accelerate N.J. 'brain drain' Louis E. Emmons, 19, of Browns Mills has been named New Jersey's Fire Fighter of the Year. He saved a boy, 4, from a burning house at Browns Mills, where hi is a volunteer fireman. Hitchhiker drive WOODBRIDGE (AP) An intensified campaign against hitchhikers on the 173-mile Garden State Parkway was announced Friday by state police and Parkway officials.

The latest drive to eliminate hitchhiking was sparked by incidents suspect in sex placed him on the Most Wanted list as recently as Feb. 10. i On Dec. 30, 1977, Bundy after shedding 65 pounds crawled through a lighting duct and ventilation system in an Aspen, jail where he was awaiting trial after being accused of the rape-slaying of Caryn Campbell, a Michigan nurse who disappeared on a skiing vacation. Her nude body was later found in a snow bank.

Tallahassee police have traced Bundy's most recent residence to an apartment house just four blocks from the FSU main gate. College students living in the building remember him as a quiet fellow known as "Chris" who showed up in early January, would sing and drink with them, but would not reveal his last name or his job. He spent most of his days watching television. Bundy is described by the FBI on its wanted poster as a slender, Moot, 11-inch man with dark brown hair of about 155 pounds who is a physical fitness enthusiast. On Jan.

15, a man described as 5-10, 155 pounds, entered the Chi Omega sorority near the FSU campus and severely beat four females with an oaken cudgel. He strangled two of them, and raped one. An hour later, police think, the same man entered a duplex window six blocks away and was beating a fifth victim with a board, when a neighbor's phone call scared him off. State prosecutors here said they will ask a circuit court judge later today to deny ball for Bundy, at least until the other law enforcement agencies, most of them in the West, can be contacted about his incarceration. Bundy had $120 on him when he was arrested.

Several Tallahassee residents whose names were on credit cards in Bundy's possession said they lost the cards last month in hotel lobbies and supermarkets, and they have been ques By DAVID TREADWELL TRENTON (AP) Financial reforms recommended for the state's higher education system could accelerate the "brain drain" of New Jersey scholars to other states, the state Board of Higher Education said Friday. The board said a blue-ribbon commission proposal to reduce current subsidies to New Jersey universities and colleges would cause tuition rates at senior public colleges to rise and jeopardize their ability to attract top high school students. "Tuition levels established at New Jersey's institutions should take into account tuition policies established for institutions in neighboring states and the impact such policies might have on interstate migration," the board said in its preliminary analysis of the commission study. The four-year Booher Commission study calls for a gradual shift in financial subsidies from state colleges and universities to student aid programs. Currents subsidies to institutions would be reduced by 40 percent.

The commission, headed by former state school board chairman Edward E. Booher, said the present structure of higher education funding has created inequitable treatment of students, especially those from middle-income families. The Board of Higher Education, in its preliminary analysis of the commission study, said the subsidy reduction would force senior public colleges to hike tuitions and "could potentially damage their competitive positions with other institutions in other states." Te board said 38 percent of the New Jersey's high school graduates, including man6 drawn from the top quarter of their class, already attend institutions 9f higher learning outside the state. Edward Hollander, chancellor of higher education, said his staff would examine the Booher study and propose alternatives to the commission recommendations. In other action, the board authorized: Montclair College to offer a bachelor of music degree and a bachelor of fine arts degree in fine arts, theater and dance.

-Rutgers University to create a Department of Social Work at the Camden College of Arts and Sciences. -Monmouth College to offer a bachelor of arts program in liberal arts..