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IHtlllllHtfMllltlUl Boy Spends 3 Days On Raft With Dead Pair Rcscucel Teenager Of Terror-Filled Dazedly Tells Bays Adrift M.ui...HiniMiiiMiiiHiiMllllHIIIUIIiUMIilUIU!IIIMIIIi!r I Murder-Suicide? Man, Child Found I Shot To Death! By SID PORTER Sentinel Staff SOUTH DAYTONA The bodies of a man, woman and child, shot to death apparently Tuesday night, were found last night after two boys seeking a yard job reported a strong odor at a home in adjacent Allandale. Charles Isaac Fraley, 44, advertising salesman, apparently shot Betty D. Gordon, about 30, and her son, Michael Lee Gordon, about 2, and then shot himself, also in the head, surmised Sheriff's Deps. Frank Ficacci and Eugene Pet-rone. Coroner and Peace Justice Robert H.

Matthews concurred. All three victims are thought to be from Columbus, Ohio. Sheriff Rodney Thursby said the case is still under investigation. Jill Nf' SAN DIEGO, Calif. A 14-year-old boy clinging to a fog-shrouded raft to which he had lashed the bodies of two men companions was rescued at sea yesterday after three terror-filled days adrift.

The boy, Terry McClelland of Huntington Beach, was picked up by a fishing boat and later transferred to a submarine, 90 miles southwest of San Diego. He arrived in San Diego abroad the submarine last night and, apparently in deep shock, mumbled a few dazed sentences before navy corpsmen whisked him by ambulance to Balboa Naval Hospital. HIS DEAD companions were identified as Russell Bradford, about 45, his step-grandfather, of Huntington Beach, and Al Hartman of Santa Ana, Calif. He told of seeing both men become delirious, apparently from ex- guard began a search for it. THE BOY AND Hartman's body were later transferred to the submarine USS Diodon.

Young McClelland recovered from shock long enough on the submarine to say that the small fishing boat, the cabin cruiser TIM-C broke up Tuesday night. The boy and the two men had started out that day from Newport Beach. Newport Beach is about 150 miles north of where he was found. Aboard the Ruth Marie Terry ate a little food and fell asleep. He suffers from exposure and is reported in fair condition.

Although only a freshman at Huntington Beach High School the past year, Terry played first-string guard and center on the football team. Terry's sobbing mother, Mrs. George McClelland, who has Dispute aritime Pact if r- i 1 vj Fain ill Hears TMetvs Mrs. Verna McClelland of Huntington Beach, whose eldest son, Terry, 14, was the lone survivor of a. disastrous fishing trip, is shown with her other children yesterday.

They are daughter, Lynnette, 10, and sons (from left) John, 7, Russel, 9, and Scott, 6. (AP Wirephoto to The Sentinel last night) Talks In Two-Week Recess waited in vain for ships to pick them up. Hartman "went crazy on the third day," the youth said, and: "MY GRANDFATHER went crazy seeing Al go crazy. He kept screaming and yelling and falling into the water." The boy later lashed both bodies to the raft. After both men died, he said, the raft drifted aimlessly until it was spotted yesterday.

The albacore ishing boat, Ruth Marie, sighted the raft in foggy weather. It took the boy aboard and recovered Hartman's body. Bradford's body slipped from the raft and disappeared. The coast Men Accused 4 Van Lines Indicted In Price-Fixing ftnu $ork cimra Dispatch To The Sentinel WASHINGTON Four of the country's largest moving companies and five of their executives were indicted here yesterday on criminal antitrust charges. A federal grand jury accused the companies and individuals of conspiring to fix rates on the moving of household They were charged also with stifling competition in the moving van business.

These defendants were named in the indictment: North American Van Lines its president, James D. Edgett, and its assistant president, Paul. Clarke. AERO MAYFLOWER Transit Co. and its president, John Sloan Smith.

Allied Van Lines Inc. and its executive vice president, Emmett J. Flavin. United Van Lines Inc. and Loren A.

Larimore, executive vice president and general manager. Also indicted was a trade association, the Household Goods Carriers' Bureau. The bureau's executive secretary, Francis L. Wyche, was named as a co-conspirator but was not indicted. THERE WERE TWO counts in the indictment.

The first charged a violation of Sec. 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, which prohibits combinations and conspiracies in restraint of trade in interstate commerce. The second count was under Sec. 3 of the act, which bars similar conspiracies in the District of Columbia. The maximum penalty on each count would be a $50,000 fine for each of the companies and the trade association and a $50,000 fine plus a year in jail for each individual defendant.

Jail sentences are unusual in antitrust cases, but Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy has indicated that he will press for them when deliberate, knowing, wilful violations of the law are proved. Marilyn 'Satisfactory' NEW YORK (UPI) Actress Marilyn Monroe was reported in "very satisfactory" condition yesterday recovering from a gall bladder operation.

Cuban Throng In Russia HAVANA, Cuba (JP) An announcement yesterday said 1,000 young Cubans had arrived in Odessa, Russia, on their way to study agricultural methods in Soviet colleges. CALENDAR SPECIAL EVENTS Florida Own Water Ski Championships, Seminole Hotel. Winter Park, 9 a.m. EXHIBITIONS Loch Haven Art Center, 1000 E. Rollins Ave.

2-S P.m. MEETINGS Vita-Craft, San Juan Hotel. 12:30 p.m. Warlow Short Course, Angebilt Hotel, a.m. -5 p.m.

SPORTS Orlando Dod9ers vs. Daytona Beach, Tinker Fiell, 7:45 p.m. 1961 JULY 1861 1 2 3 momwi 7 mwj 0 I 0 9 10 11 12 13 15 posure and lack of food or water and then die. But newsmen were unable to ask him questions. The boy's story: He and the two men set out aboard a fishing boat from Newport Beach, for a month's fishing cruise off Mexico last Tuesday night.

The boat ran into heavy swells while riding at anchor. "THE SEA ANCHOR was pulling on the boat," the muscular, blond youth whispered. "Two big swells picked up the boat and pulled the bottom out "Grandpa (Bradford) sai to cut the raft loose He said all three got aboard the raft and for the next three days come bogged down in a basic difference between the two sides over their objective and scope, with the result that no substantial progress has been made in the preparatory discussions. The White House announced that the bilateral talks would be recessed until July 17 and then resumed in Moscow. The two-week recess, combined with the unresolved differences between the two sides over the procedures and objectives of disarmament negotiations, made it highly unlikely that a general disarmament conference could begin on July 31, as has been tentatively scheduled.

OFFICIALLY, THE meeting of the Soviet diplomats with the president was described by the White House as a "courtesy call." Presidential Press Sec. Pierre Salinger said that John J. McCloy, the president's disarmament adviser, had asked Kennedy to see Zorin before the latter returned to Moscow. From the comments of Zorin afterwards, however, it was apparent that the White House conversations went beyond mere formalities and were used by the president to restate the U. S.

views on disarmament and the bilateral talks. Stewart Uninjured In Plane Mishap NAIROBI, Kenya (UPI) Movie star Jimmy Stewart and his wife were reported yesterday to have escaped injury when a plane taking them on a big game safari made a crash landing near Galole in Kenya. Stewart was reported traveling with his wife and, F. Kirk Johnson, Fort Worth, president of the Ambassador Oil Co. (A Dallas report said Mrs.

Johnson also was believed aboard the plane.) JFK Seeks To Break Disarmament Impasse (AP Wirephoto to The Sentinel last night) OSLY SURVIVOR Terry McClelland four other children, told reporters in Huntington Beach: "I had been worried about the fishing trip, worrying about them going. My mother also mentioned Thursday that she was worried." Delays Major Units Agree, Other Unions Wait NEW YORK (UPI) Pres. Kennedy's fact-finders yesterday hammered out an agreement between the biggest shipowner group and the biggest union in the 15-day maritime strike, but dispute with other unions held up a strike settlement. A tentative four-year agreement providing substantial wage increases and other benefits was initialed by the National Maritime Union, the shipowners' American Merchant Marine Institute, and a subsidiary group of tanker owners, the Tankers Labor Services Committee. BUT DAVID L.

COLE, chairman of the president's three-man factfinding board, said negotiations were stalemated between the AMMI and a second union, the Marine Engineers Benevolent Assn. "I think there's a weekend of work ahead, but these things can break fast," Cole said. Cole said the engineers were unwilling to go along with the NMU -in shunting aside the major issue of the strike the unions' demands for unionization of about 450 American-owned ships sailing under foreign flags. IN THE NMU SETTLEMENT, both sides agreed to place the issue before a committee to be set up by Labor Sec. Arthur J.

Goldberg. Cole said two other unions, the Masters Mates and Pilots and the American Radio were in substantial agreement with the NMU money terms but were rais ing questions about fringe benefits. CORE Denies Riders Red-Led NEW YORK (UPI) Gordon Cole, field director of the Congress of Racial Equality, yesterday denied that the "Freedom Riders" were "Communist inspired, led or trained." Cole replied to a charge made Thursday by Mississippi Highway Patrol officials, who said the "Freedom Rider" movement was "planned and directed by the Communists." Mississippi Public Safety Comm. T. B.

Byfdsong released parts of an alleged interview with Katherine Pleune, 21, a white woman from Chicago, one of the 164 riders who have been jailed in the state. In the alleged interview, Miss Pleune said she was among students who visited Cuba in February for a seminar which the patrol said was conducted by "nine officials of the Soviet Union." Cole called it a "ridiculous" charge made by "irresponsible FRALEY HAD rented the house at 102 Riverside by. the Halifax River, about three weeks ago. His effects showed he had on Nqv. 3, 1960, bought a Florida driver's license at Ft.

Lauderdale. The trio was last seen by neighbors Tuesday. When the two boys stopped at the house last night seeking a job, they knocked and were unable to get an answer. They reported the strong odor about the place to South Daytona Police Chief Tom Connolly and finding of the bodies followed. A letter found addressed to Mrs.

Gordon contained an inquiry about Mike, and this established the child as hers. Housing, S-S Tax Extension Bills Signed Dispatch To The Sentinel WASHINGTON Pres. Kennedy signed into law yesterday a broad omnibus housing bill as administration officials moved immediately to put its provisions into effect. Pres. Kennedy called the ure "the most important reaching federal (housing)- legislation since the enactment of the housing act of 1949." The bill, an amalgam of slightly different Senate and House ver-' sions, was approved by Congress Wednesday.

It provides almost all the housing and urban renewal funds requested earlier by the president plus some extras for urban transit, farm housing and community facilities. THE PRESIDENT also signed another of his key legislative pro- posals, the 1961 Social Security Act, which will mean more Social Security coverage and benefits for millions of Americans. It also will enable men to retire at the age of 62 with benefits instead of at 65 the previous requirement. All told, the long-range omnibus bill calls for $2,010,000,000 in direct loans and $2,126,000,000 in outright grants, plus a partly "discretionary" $1,550,000,000 in added Federal National Mortgage Assn. mortgage-buying authority.

This comes to a total of $5,686,000,000. Preliminary Housing and Home Finance Agency estimates put agency outlays in grants for fiscal 1962 at $12 million and in loans at $88.5 million. In addition, the Federal National Mortgage Assn. is expected to use at least $65 million in Treasury Funds for supporting new federally-insured modest-income mortgage programs. KENNEDY ALSO signed a bill keeping in force for another year the 52 pet.

corporate income tax and a series of excise taxes pegged at high rates 10 years ago as emergency measures. Kennedy's signature extended the taxes on the day they were due to expire. They bring in more than $3.6 billion a year. The excise taxes continued at their present levels are on alcoholic beverages, cigarets, automobiles, telephone service and passenger transportation. Rita, Fifth Mate Separate HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Rita Hay-worth and her fifth husband, producer James Hill, have separated pnd a divorce is imminent, a spokesman for the actress said yesterday.

HENRY WINSTON Commie freed by JFK Term Commuted Kennedy Frees Blind, III Red NEW YORK Henry Winston, one of the nation's top Communists, went free yesterday after more than five years imprisonment. Pres. Kennedy commuted his federal sentence because he is blind and in ill health. "I'm happy and surprised," said Winston, one of two remaining Red bigwigs still imprisoned as a result of the 1949 Smith Act convic tion of ll top party leaders. Winston, who was given an eight-year prison term, faces possible surgery a second time for a brain tumor.

The White House has been urged to clemency on humanitarian grounds by a number of non-Communists, as well as by the party itself. WINSTON, 50-YEAR-old New York Negro who formerly was the organizational secretary of the party in this country, was released from the U. S. Public Health Service Hospital on Staten Island. He was moved there from federal prison April ll for evaluation of his physical condition.

Winston was one of 11 top Communists convicted 12 years ago of conspiracy to teach and advocate forcible overthrow of the Govt. He received a five-year sentence. But he fled and went into hiding for five years and did not surrender until March 5, 1956. Because of his flight, he was given an additional three-year sentence for contempt. Pickle Barrel Satellite Flops WASHINGTON (UPI) An attempt to hurl a "pickle barrel" satellite into orbit to measure meteor particles ended in failure yesterday when the third stage of a solid fuel Scout rocket failed to ignite.

The four-stage rocket, tall as a seven-story building, soared to an altitude of 70 miles before falling back into the Atlantic Ocean. It was fired from the National Aeronautics Space Administration's test center. Cause of the trouble was not disclosed. JFK Sims Debt Limit Hike WASHINGTON Pres. Kennedy signed a bill yesterday raising the national debt limit by $5 billion to $293 billion.

Sfrut $nrk Stmrs Dispatch To The Sentinel WASHINGTON Pres. Kennedy sought yesterday to break a procedural impasse blocking East-West disarmament discussions in a personal talk with the chief Soviet disarmament negotiator Valerian A. Zorin. Along with Soviet Ambr. Mikhail A.

Menshikov, Zorin paid an unannounced call at the White House for a half-hour conversation with the president. THE WHITE HOUSE discussions were held as a two-week recess was called in the U. S. -Soviet discussions attempting to arrange a general disarmament conference this summer. The bilateral talks, under way since June 19, have be- 23 Killed In Plane Crash, 12 Rescued BUENOS AIRES (UPI) An Argentine Transcontinental Airlines-C-47 crashed in flames last night as it approached the suburban Aeroparque Airport for a landing.

Airline officials said apparently only 12 of the 35 persons aboard survived. Transcontinental said 10 of the 31 passengers and two of the four crewmen aboard were rescued from the flaming wreckage. All other persons in the plane were believed to have been killed. It was not immediately learned if any Americans were aboard. 11 Die In Collision CARSON CITY, Nev.

W) Eleven persons were reported killed last night in the headon collision of a station wagon and a pickup truck on U. S. Hwy. 91 just east of the Nevada-California Border, Nevada Highway Patrol Supt. Robert Sten-ovich announced..

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