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16,1971 SffflOfral Gurney Says Probe In Japan Blocked Ca I ley Is Ruled Normal by Judge As Trial Resumes 'I 7 A. 4 jf The only exceptions were by special orders, Gurney said. The ban was imposed July 22, Sen. Edward J. Gurney, a member of the investigations subcommittee conducting the probe, said the ban prevented Internal Revenue Service agents from studying finances of Americans dealing with U.S.

service clubs in Vietnam. WASHINGTON (AP) A senator investigating alleged corruption in military recreational funds says the State Department blocked U.S. tax investigations in Japan for more than three years during the troop buildup in Vietnam. 4 After Disturbances i i 1 cution to prevent self-incrimination. The psychiatrist issue was to be taken up again in another no-jury session later today.

In another matter, Kennedy asked the U.S. attorney to con- sider contempt proceedings against John Sack, a contributing editor of Esquire magazine. Sack, who has published two parts of a three-part series entitled "The Confessions of Lt. Calley" refused from the witness stand to turn over an estimated 60 hours of taped interviews to the prosecution. He claimed protection under the 1st and 14th amendments.

Calley is expected to take the stand in his own defense sometime this week. Everything Said Good at Raiford (f Ay." 1 I satified with traditional classroom teaching and has planned a seven-month odyessy throughout North America for his children. (AP WHEELS TO KNOWLEDGE Educator Burt Bradley of Westland, and his three daughters prepare to hit the road in their quest for knowledge. Bradley, who has a doctorate in higher education, is dis- FT. BENNING, Ga.

(AP) The judge in the My Lai murder trial of Lt. William L. Calley Jr. said today a psychiatric examination during a month-long recess showed that the lieutenant "is normal in every respect" Judge Reid W. Kennedy made the statement ding a continuing argument over psychiatric testimony that the defense wants to present.

Calley, 27, a platoon leader in the assault on the Vietnamese village of My Lai nearly three years ago, is charged with murder of 102 unresisting Vietnamese civilians. When the trial adjourned Jan. 18, Dr. Albert LaVerne had said that it was possible the lieutenant's mind was affected by second hand marijuana The psychiatrist said it was possible the marijuana smoking of others in the vicinity might have afffected Calley, a nonuser. But today, defense attorney George Latimer said he was dropping that line as a defense.

"AS FAR AS we are concerned, we will not pursue this marijuana theory further as it pertains to any witness in this case." Latimer said he was unable to find any evidence that Calley was in a closed room in the presence of marijuana smokers. In arguing, out of the hearing of the jury, over whether defense psychiatrists are qualified to testify about Calley's mental condition in a combat zone 10,000 miles and three years distant, prosecutor Aubrey Daniel said the government's mental examination of Calley resulted in a negative finding in all respects. In the course of the discussion, Kennedy, a colonel in the Army, said: "Let me ask the defense this. Since you have the report of the sanity board, and since it is fairly apparent from this, Lt. Calley is normal in every respect, does this change your attitude about proceeding with DR.

LaVerne?" Latimer said that medical evidence will show "Lt. Calley's mental processes were impaired by variousstresses, fears and emotions. I think there are many areas where he showed diminished capacity and it should be brought before the court." During the recess, Calley was examined at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington by a sanity board of three Vietnam-experienced psychiatrists. The results of that examination were given to both sides, but the judge withheld any of Calley's own statements from the prose Released by Turks A Kidnaped Gl Talks to Probers 1966, and lifted Oct. 8, 19WJ.

Gurney said the IRS now has three agents permanently stationed in South Vietnam investigating several hundred tax cases. "THE FALLACY in this senseless arrangement was that an unscrupulous vendor, or vendor's agent, could be in Vietnam, supplying our military forces through the clubs and post exchanges, engaging in kickbacks, bribes, payoffs and other forms of tax evasion," Gurney said. For all practical purposes, he said, the IRS was forbidden to enter the country and attempt to collect taxes or gather evidence for possible prosecution. Gurney said the subcommittee has new evidence of corruption in placement of slot machines in U.S. military clubs in Vietnam.

His report was written just before the Army announced it is withdrawing the 2,700 slot machines because they are not practical in a war zone. The investigation is centering on charges kickbacks have been used by civilian vendors in dealing with service facilities operated for U.S. troops around the world. Gurney said there are indications bribes and favors were offered by salesmen to influence the purchase of beer and liquor for military use in Southeast Asia. The Defense Department says it is investigating alleged irregularities in one such fund on Guam.

Senate sources say the probe may be used in subcommittee hearings to illustrate a pattern of corruption in dealings between civilian vendors and service clubs. Sen. Abraham Ribicoff plans to open hearings Wednesday into the handling of nonappropriated military funds generated at the clubs, post exchanges, bowling alleys, slot machines and movie theaters. The funds totaled $6 billion last year. The hearings are expected to focus on the worldwide Post Exchange system, the' military's department store which did about $3 billion in business last year.

Africans Disappear In Forest LUSIKISIKI, South Africa (AP) Thousands of Africans were in hiding today in the dense forest around this town in the eastern Transkei following weekend factional fighting in which 28 persons were killed. "Not a soul is left in the area," said the assistant district surgeon, Dr. Margaret Barlow. Tribesmen fearful of arrest or more fighting have melted into the bush. Some women and children are with them, while oth ers have taken refuge with peaceful neighbors.

Dr. Barlow said the amount of looting was "tremendous not a compound is left standing." Some 600 warriors clashed near Lusikisiki Friday night, and police said 24 were killed. They were uncertain of the cause of the fighting but said it might have started because of a disagreement over livestock grazing. In another skirmish Sunday at Ngqeleni, 17 miles to the east, four more persons were killed. The Transkei is a semiauton-omous area set aside for the Xhosa tribe and the first of a series planned to segregate South African blacks and give them limited self-government.

There has been sporadic war there between factions for more than 30 years in which hundreds have been killed. POW Panel Is Named By Askew By United Press International A committee of legislators, lawyers and the wives of two missing men was named Dy Gov. Reubin Askew Modday to aid families of prisoners of war or men missing in Southeast Asia. Mrs. Ann Fobair of Tampa and Mrs.

Mary Ann Fuller of Jacksonville were named to the "Prisoners of War Select Committee," along with State Sea Robert D. Graham, D-Miami, and Rep. Talbot D'Alemberte, D-Miami. Askew said the purpose of the committee, which also has several lawyers as members, will be to offer legal aid to families of missing men in such matters as filing for homestead exemption in the absence of heads of households. "We must not let technicalities of the law handicap these families," said the governor.

RAIFORD (AP) State prison officials today said "everything is good" at the Raiford prison where convict disturbances have created turmoil the past five days. Louie Wainwright, state corrections director, remained on the scene. He and warden Don Hassfurd-er were reported unavailable for word of whether prisoners were on their jobs. Wainwright said earlier about 200 of the 2,200 Raiford inmates were segregated and questioned about the disturbances. Some were returned to their regular sections and others remained segregated for further investigation, he said.

Meanwhile, John Woodward, a counselor at Raiford, said he saw a Florida Highway Patrol trooper fire into a prison hospital window during Monday's disturbance. Woodward said the trooper fired into the window to silence taunting prisoners. He said the incident took place about 2 p.m. while troopers and guards were leading some 25 prisoners through the prison yard, with "their hands held high." As they marched the prisoners by the hospital, Woodward said, prisoners inside jeered and yelled unflattering remarks. At that point.

Woodward said, the trooper fired at the second story window. Woodward said nobody was injured. Friday night 62 inmates were injured when a mob of prisoners stormed a fence, officials said. Twenty men were injured by birdshot fired by officers and 47 other prisoners suffered various injuries while scrambling for cover, Wainwright said. Wainwright said the prisoner action stemmed from their grievances over living conditions at the cramped facility.

"The thing we need to do is get some people out of here," he said. "We're so overcrowded that management is a very serious problem. If the Legislature They Part LONDON (AP) Sean Con-nery, who played the title role in most of the James Bond movies, says he and his actress-writer wife Diane Cilento have parted. "This time it is the end," he told newsmen Monday. There had been previous separations.

Miss Cilento has left their home in the Putney area of London to live in Wimbledoa Con-nery gave no reason for the breakup of the eight-year-old marriage. Today is Tuesday, Feb. 16,. the 47th day of 1971. The moon is between its full phase and last quarter.

On this day in 1969 the Red Chinese seized 3 yachts near Hong Kong, including one American-owned ship. Four Americans were among the 15 persons taken captive. FORECAST Fair to partly cloudy, a little warmer through Wednesday. High today near 71 with the low tonight near 40. The high Wednesday will be near 74.

Winds are southeasterly at 5 to 15 miles per hour. The high Monday was 68 with the low this morning at the airport of 29. OUTLOOK The outlook for Thursday through Saturday is mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. The lows will be in the 50s with expected highs in the 70s. FigiuM Stow Law Tdnptraivm Until Wtdnmdoy Morning Ulal4 r.t,.llion Net In4il4- Cllt 1 lL2H 40 a a IMCIJ or the governor could find just reasonable amount of funds to relocate these people, it would be of tremendous importance." Wainwright said about 75 per cent of the prisoners reported for work Monday afternoon but many refused to perform their tasks at the work sites.

Others laid down in front of prison doorways to prevent work-bound inmates from crossing through. Wainwright said striking prisoners had been segregated from those who were willing to work. At one point Monday afternoon source inside the prison said "it's like a powder keg in there. You can't believe how tense it is." Wainwright refused to comment on the hospital disturbance and would not give a reason for ordering two squads of riot troopers inside the prison to fire the warning shots. I Declare From Page 1 our newest Capitol Center buildings here, and even the old Orlando TB sanatorium.

The State paid itself rent to meet debt installments. It was a devious method, but the Supreme Court allowed it, and we got the buildings. Drafters of the new Constitution outlawed it, and said surely we could continue building by cash outlays or public approval of general bonds. But the cash has not been forthcoming from them, and they haven't had the nerve to submit a general bond proposition to the electorate. -So there are no buildings.

The time must be rushing toward us for a general bond issue of $125 million or more to finance these needed buildings. But a better plan might be to submit a Constitution amendment prescribing four or five per cent of each year's general revenue ($100 or $125 million this year) exclusively for construction. We could require it be spent on a cash and carry basis, or allow it to be pledged from time to time to pay off loans floated to build as the; need became desperate or the building costs were attractive. If we can earmark and pledge our State money for county school houses, and for college buildings, why not for prisons, mental hospitals and even a decent Capitol? FLORIDA Prec. Jacksonville Key West Miami Ocala Orlando Pensacola TALLAHASSEE Tampa West Palm Beach 69 67 72 70 70 61 68 65 34 56 49 35 42 44 29 37 52 40 23 28 22 25 25 25 -15 69 56 32 28 71 NATIONAL Atlanta Boston Charlotte Chicago Cleveland Denver Detroit Fairbanks Honolulu Los Angeles Memphis P.

59 34 54 33 27 65 28 3 82 63 55 32 .15 .01 SUN Rise MOON Set Rise Tuesday 00:19 AM. Set 7:17 7:16 6:26 6:27 10:16 A.M. 10:52 AM. AP ALACH ICOLA RIVER DATA AT BLOUNTSTOWN Tuesday 15.0 stationary Wednesday 15.0 stationary Thursday 15.0 stationary rainfall t2m tiJiloSh Total since Jan. 1 8.23 'Above below normal since Feb.

1 42.98 Above below normal since Jan. 1 42.82 from NATIONAL I i seRvice, Ucal (,0 I Dwellings Damaged LOS ANGELES (AP) More than 1,000 dwellings have been condemned because of the earthquake in the Los Angeles area a week ago and aftershocks from the quake have further ruffled nerves. The aftershocks, four of which were felt Monday, caused only minor damage, authorities said. The latest shocks, from 3.5 to 3.9 magnitude on the Richter scale, were centered in the San Fernando Valley. The quake itself was 6.6 on the scale.

A Monday night tremor knocked out electricity briefly in the Granada Hills suburb. A few residents reported cracked windows and widened fissures in structures but no serious damage. 4 'We had no reports of serious damage but a lot of people called wondering if they should evacuate," a police spokesman said. "After each shockwegetalot of calls. People are worried and that last one shook us pretty good." $20 Lighter Real Bargain LUTON, England (UPI) Jeweler Tony Adkins sold two cigarette lighters for $20.16 and was pleased when new orders came in from customers' friends.

But the business boom collapsed when he called the manufacturer to order six more and found out they were 18-carat gold and should have cost $403.20 each. member of Jackson Masonic Lodge No. 1, a Shriner and a member of the United Travelers Association and Florida Historical Society. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. H.

P. Still; a grandson, Thomas W. Still of Tallahassee. Two brothers, J. Hugh Yon of Orlando and Terrell H.

Yon of Atlanta; three sisters, Mrs. Carrie Williams, Columbia, S.C., Mrs. Sue Cortening, Atlanta, and Mrs. Mabel Berry, Pensacola, and several nieces and nephews including Tallahassee Postmaster Peyton Yon. Funeral arrangements were to be announced later.

Tallahassee, Terry Barwick of Pensacola; one sister, Mrs. Rose Ann Haskett of Sopchip- py- Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Berney car wick, i aiianassee, Terry Barwick of Pensacola; one sister, Mrs. Rose Ann Haskett of Sopchoppy. Chester Brock CHATTAHOOCHEE -Chester Wilkerson Brock, 72, of Rt.

1, Chattahoochee, died Friday in the Extended Convalescent Center, Tallahassee. A native of Washington County, he had lived in Decatur County for the past ten years. He was a retired engineer with the Railroad after approximately 25 years of service. He was. a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the Pleasant Grove Methodist Church in Vernon.

Survivors include a brother Clinton Brock of Tallahassee. Funeral arrangements were handled by Cox Funeral Home of Bainbridge. Ex-Congressman Tom Yon Dead Guards Will Join In Search DURHAM, N. C. (UPI) -Authorities announced today that National Guardsmen will aid in the search for a young couple missing since Friday night in a wooded section near an exclusive residential neighborhood.

The families of the two young students also announced a $500 reward for information on their whereabouts. Jesse McBain, 19, of Pitts-boro, a student at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, and Patricia Ann Mann, 20, of Sanford, a student at Watts Hospital School of Nursing here, were last seen at a nursing school party Friday Authorities found the couple's abandoned car Saturday near a country club and several small lakes. Police said there were no signs of a struggle at the car. The couple's coats were locked inside the vehicles. Authorities dragged a lake Monday and said they would continue searching other lakes in the area.

"It doesn't look good at all," said Police Lt. R. G. Morris. Surprised Burglars Shoot 3 EUStiS (AP) A Fi'tch-ville, woman and a local real estate man were wounded fatally Monday when they surprised burglars cracking a safe in a remote orange grove, police reported.

The woman's husband was wounded in the arm. Mrs. Nicholas Tuhlick and real estate man Robert N. Brinkworth, 54, of Eustis, died of wounds received when the burglars locked them in the trunk of their car and sprayed the vehicle with bullets, officers reported. Tuhlick inched his way out of the trunk and summoned help, police said.

He was reported in satisfactory condition today at Waterman Hospital. Police reported "no new developments" today in the search for the two burglars. The safe was stolen from a home in nearby Mount Dora earlier in the day, police said. He Turns Junky Old Cemetery Into Showplace FREDERICK, Md. (AP) Bernard Rippeon watched last spring as the elderly couple picked their way through the brambles and debris of the centuries-old cemetery to visit the grave of an ancestor.

It struck him as out of character for this history-rich county seat, where the flag flies day and night over the tomb of-Francis Scott Key. So Rippeon went to work in his spare time and singlehand-edly transformed the rodent-infested junkpile into the neat country cemetery it had been years earlier. Rippeon, 42, a county employee, cleared the graveyard, repaired and straightened the tombstones, planted grass and put up a fence. ANKARA, Turkey (AP) A Texas airman kidnaped and held 17 hours by suspected leftist extremists was undergoing questioning today by U.S. Air Force investigators while Turkish police hunted the kidnapers.

Sgt. Jimmy Ray Finley, 24, an air policeman from Fort Worth, walked back to his base Monday night, apparently none the worse for his experience. He was "dead tired" but unharmed, American officials said. The Air Force gave no details of what he reported. But speculation in Ankara was that the kidnaping might have been the work of a group of leftists wanted for two recent bank robberies in the city.

The five-man gang is led by former Istanbul University law student Deniz Gezmis and has been at large since its first successful bank raid Jan. 11. Officials would say only that Finley's abductors were be-lieved to be leftist extremists, active for the past year in ter-, rorist attacks against American servicemen and their families. TURKISH POLICE said at least three men took part in the kidnaping about 3 a.m. Monday at an American installation on the outskirts of Ankara.

The kidnapers entered the base apparently undetected and forced Finley into a truck while he was on guard duty. A few hours later the pickup truck was found empty and abandoned, its motor still running and with a flat tire 10 miles outside Ankara. i The kidnaping jolted the American community in Tur-- key. "It's been building up to this," said a U.S. diplomat of the spreading wave of anti-American violence in Turkey.

There have been bomb attacks against U.S. installations and Americans have been roughed up, insulted and threatened. One American military wife and her two children narrowly escaped injury when a dynamite bomb exploded in their kitchen. "We had our fingers crossed kidnaping wouldn't spread to Turkey, but here it is," said a security officer at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara.

He said for more than a year special security measures have been taken to protect several thousand American civilians and servicemen in Ankara. Turkish police have rein- PIXiet by WoW couiv HAW SWORN) I HAP if HrrH 1-1(9 tin. OH All nihil 1971 Umtid Ftatun SlMiMM, forced Turkish troops guarding U.S. installations. Americans ere not allowed to carry weapons for guard duty.

Turkish police also are stationed at the residence of the U.S. ambassador. Anti-Americanism first appeared in 1964 when many Turks resented the lack of U.S. support in their dispute with Greece over Cyprus. It has intensified with the growth of extremism in Turkish universities in the past two years.

Factors observers consider responsible for the current anti-Americanism include the presence of 30,000 Americans in Turkey, with their special privileges and PX prosperity; the spread of leftist ideas after the military revolution in 1960 and liberal constitution of 1961, and a propaganda campaign by the Soviet Union to exploit anti-Americanism. Occasional of fensive behavior of Americans also has rasped nationalist feelings. A drunken U.S. serviceman at Samsun on the Black Sea coast defaced a Turkish flag. In another incident, a U.S.

officer was given a speedy transfer to America without trial after his car ran into a marching unit of Turkish troops, killing several. Demos From Page 1 starts ini early May. This, they reason, will prevent the North Vietnamese from bringing in supplies for a major offensive in South Vietnam next fall or winter. Such success would allow South Vietnam to hold a presidential election next fall without major Communist military pressure, probably strengthening President Nguyen Van Thieu against potential opponents. In assessing domestic reaction to the Laotian operation, White House officials cite the general lack of protest demonstrations on college campuses and the kinds of questions administration spokesmen are encountering.

For example, they say, there are virtually no questions about broadened use of U.S. airpower throughout Indochina beyond limits President Nixon and Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird set last spring. Part of the muted reaction, these sources agree, is attributable to the fact South Vietnamese, rather than American, troops are doing the fighting in Laos. This only backs up their contention, they add, that Viet-namization is working and South Vietnamese troops are able to take over the bulk of the fighting and let the Americans go home.

They concede claims of success in the Cambodian operation failed to help Republicans in November's congressional elections. Newsman Killed ALBANY, N.Y. (UPIWohn H. Gilmore, 28, a staff correspondent of United Press International's Albany bureau, was killed early today in a two-car accident while driving home from work. Thomas Alva Yon, 88, who represented the old third Florida district in Congress from 1927 to 1933, died this morning at the Tallahassee Convalescent Home after a long illness.

He maintained his residence at 307 W. Park Ave. He was married to the late Mrs. Daisy Mullikin Yon. A native of Jackson County, he lived for a time in Calhoun County but had resided in Tallahassee many years.

While in Congress he was a member of the Foreign Island Committee. Yon was a member of Trinity Methodist Church, a Deaths IOUM Mrs. Vera Miller Mrs. Vera Miller, 68, of 2107 Trimble died this morning at her residence after a short illness. A native of Iron City, she had lived here for 30 years.

She was a member of the Southside Church of God. Survivors include her husband, Tom M. Miller; a daughter, Mrs. Doris Swearinger; a son, Jerry Ingram Miller, all of Tallahassee; four sisters; five grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. Bevis Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Homer Barwick Homer Braxton Barwick, 36, of Sopchoppy, died this morning at his home after an extended illness. He was a native of Sopchoppy. He was a disabled veteran of the Korean War and a member of the First Baptist Church of Sopchoppy. Survivors "include parents, I Mr. and Mrs.

Homer Braxton Barwick of Sopchoppy; a brother Berney Barwick of 1 siw. (USE (EIV' E3 WEATHER FORECAST Showers are forecast today for different parts of the nation. Rain is expected for the Northwest. There will be cold weather in the Northeast and mild temperatures in the West. (AP Wirephoto Map).

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