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Silled Before Police- End. 'niBer9 Terjcor Reign nONOLULU ADVERTISER AL Tuesday, Aug. 2, 1363 it Prison Term Held Up for Birthday David K. Panoke of Sing Loy Lane will celebrate his 25th birthday at home today, then will go to the Mainland HI IM WMW 4Mfc MM iMk I Continued from Page 1 below the stairs to the tower. A woman and two children tourists were killed next.

The ather of the family was in another room and was I spared. Minutes before the huge clock atop the tower started to strike noon, the sniper walked out below it on the observation platform and started shooting people. Two unarmed campus security officers went up in the I tower and found the first two bodies. They ran back to tell I people to stay away. Frank Lucas, a university employe whose office is in I the 25th floor of the tower right under the observation -deck, heard someone cry, "Help." 'Don't Come Near Me9 Then another voice said, "Don't come near me.

Don't come near roe." Shots began-ringing out. Denver Dolman, who operates a book store at the of the campus, said a young Negro student was ridding his bicycle toward the Texas Union building, an enter- I List of Dead University of Texas campus where' sniper who killed 13 fired from tower. Parker School To Go On And Blaze Wounded 3 i I if bles that can be borrowed from other Windward schools, will make a total of 27 classrooms for the school this fall. The school's administration staff began setting up offices in one of the quonset huts yesterday. The other quonset will become the library when some 5,000 volumes are donated to the school by the Library of Hawaii.

The City said it will begin cleaning up the charred remains today so the grounds will be safe for children when they return next month. KANEOHE POLICE said they are "quite sure" the fire was the work of an arsonist. Assistant Honolulu Fire Chief Paul Home agreed. Yesterday morning parents, teachers and City and State officials collected on the Big tainment and meeting center. The bicycle wavered and the boy appeared to fall onto the sidewalk.

Then Dolman heard more shots. "People started falling." A student standing in a doorway of the bookstore slumped over. A girl was shot in the head and fell on the ground. Three people lay on the street. A coed cowered behind a statue.

A body lay nearby. Three persons lay on a big wall facing one side of the tower for most of the 80-minute fusillade. No one could get to them. John Scott Allen, 18, a freshman, was watching. A bullet smashed through a window and struck him in the right forearm.

Law student Leland Ammons was standing beside a policeman who was shot. "The shot" hit him high in the shoulder," Ammons said. "It must have either ricocheted or the bullet came through one of the slits between the fence pillars." T. J. Rudolph, 30, watched through binoculars as the sniper periodically popped his head up.

Police bullets crashed into the sandstone facing of the building, kicking up brown puffs of smoke. Police worked frantically to bring down the sniper. An airplane circled overhead, firing down at the man. An armored car was brought up and used to pick up wounded. 1:40 four policemen brought the sniper down, each carrying a limb.

His head was covered with blood. It hung back, bobbing limply. Three Notes Found Miles said three notes in all were found in the Whitman apartment. The first, addressed to "Roy," said: "My mother's ill and won't be at work today." Two other notes were addressed "To whom it may concern." One said he loved his wife and mother and wasn't sure why they had to die, but to "save them the embarrassment of what he was going to do," Miles said. The other note said of his mother: "If there is a heaven, she is in heaven.

But if there is no heaven, she is at least out of her misery." Another of the notes, two pages long, said he hated his father "with a mortal passion," police said. A final notation gave the chilling comment: "3 a.m. Both mother and wife dead." "We do not know, but we surmise that he killed his wife and mother before going to the tower," Miles said. Apparently he worked all night assembling his arsenal a 6.1 millimeter rifle with a telescopic sight, a Remington 35-caliber rifle, a 30.06 rifle, a 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun and a 357 Magnum pistol, among the weapons. Bloody Rags by Stairwell The university opened the sniper's perch to reporters last evening.

A pile of bloody rags lay in the corner by the door to the stairwell. Halfway up the steep flight of stairs workmen scrubbed away blood. Bullet holes were chipped in the sandstone. The glass face of the huge clock had been punctured by three bullets. Whitman's wife was the daughter of a Needville, rice farmer who is also in the real estate business.

-She was a science teacher at Lanier HiPh Srhnni at Aus a ft UPI Rsdiophoto the schoolgrounds to view the charred remains. Tad Fukushima and Mrs. Fredrick Reppun, PTA workers, shook their heads over the damage to the school library. The PTA had built up the library by raising money to buy books. MOST BYSTANDERS, parents and children, appeared stunned by the sight of the ruined schooL A group of children clustered around Parker Principal Harry Shi-roma and asked if there would be school next month.

He answered, "Yes." And the children yelled, "Yay!" Mrs. Camille Woodruff, Ben Parker teacher, moaned over the loss of educational film strips. School staff members worried over the loss of pupils records and began to make plans to recreate as much data as they could from interviews with parents and students. dorsed by the union's national leadership. The Senate Labor Committee beseeched Wirtz for advice, but his reply was: "I am not prepared at this moment to make a recommendation for the administration." He has been criticized for refusing to recommend any steps Congress might take to end the strike.

AS CONGRESS groped unhappily for a way out, Wirtz conceded he had considered but not recommended that the President make a public appeal for an end to the walkout. The White House said Wirtz was asking negotiators for the union and the five struck airlines to meet "at the earliest possible moment to discuss the situation." But no bargaining sessions were called to tackle anew what Curtin described as a total impasse. THE WALKOUT has grounded United, Eastern, Trans World, National and Northwest. P. L.

(Roy) Siemiller, the union president, offered to resume negotiations immediately if the airlines would make a new offer. He proposed for a start that the carriers agree to make non-wage benefits effective at once. Senate To Vote On Strike Today AUSTIN, Tex. (UPD The -list of dead and wounded in "yesterday's sniper siege at University of Texas, furnished by city officials at IBrackenridge Hospital, Austin. DEAD Thomas Ashton, Redlands, Robert H.

Boyer, 33, -Austin; Thomas Eckman, 'Austin; Mark Gabour, 15, Texarkana, Thomas "Karr, Fort Worth, Tex. Marguerite Lamport, Aus-Hin; Claudia Rutt; -Roy Dell Schmidt, Austin; CBilly Speed, Austin Paul. rSonntag, Austin; Harry Wal-chuk, 385 Lake Austin," Austin; unborn child (estimated age, 8 months, of "Claire Wilson, shot and critically wounded in abdomen. SEATON HOSPITAL Mrs. Edna Townsley.

BY POLICEMAN, THE SLAYER Charles Joseph Whitman, '24, Lake Worth, Fla. -PERSONS KILLED BY -THE GUNMAN PRIOR TO THE SNIPING ATTACK: Mrs. Charles Joseph Whitman, wife, C. -A. Whitman, mother, body 'found at Apt.

505 Penthouse -Apartments, Austin. fl 0 uu ill Liu ESfAPED 1 1 i 8 a tin and worked in the summer at the telephone company. R. W. Leissner, her father, said Whitman called the company yesterday and said she would not be at work.

Whitman's father, Charles, is a Lake Worth, plumbing contractor. Leonard F. Kreisle, Whitman's faculty adviser on his graduate work, said he "seemed to be more mature than most people his age. He seemed to be vacillating between artistic endeavors and -his engineering endeavors." Burns Endorses Sakima for House Gov. John A.

Burns last for a four-year prison term. Panoke appeared before Federal Judge Martin Pence yesterday to be sentenced on a charge of possession of untaxed marijuana. He had pleaded guilty July 11. Pence sentenced Panoke under the Federal Youth Correction Act (FYCA). This carries an automatic four-year term, unless the defendant is paroled sooner.

But Pence noted that Pa-n would cebrate his birthday today. He said Panoke would not have to report to the U.S. Marshal until 9 a.m. tomorrow. Man on Bail After Arrest By Customs Wallc.se S.

Furukawa, 35, of 843 21st Ave. is free on $1 baU pending a preliminary hearing on a Federal charge of receiving and transporting liquor illegally removed from a bonded warehouse. Furukawa was arrested by a U.S. Customs agent Friday night and arraigned Saturday before U.S. Commissioner Charles M.

Tonaki. A story Sunday stating Furukawa was charged with stealing liquor was in error. The Advertiser regrets the mistake. Teenagers Arrive As Stowaways Two teenaged stowaways, who broke out of a ship's hold to give themselves up yesterday, arrived aboard the States Lines freighter Hawaii at 10 last night. The boys, who claimed to be brothers, 16 and 17 years old, boarded the ship Wednesday in San Francisco and hid in the Number 2 hold.

They broke a lock on the hold about 2:45 p.m. yesterday as the freighter neared Honolulu and came out, dirty and hungry after eating only peaches from the cargo. They claimed they were Sonny and Max Williat, stepsons of John Williat, a Navy petty officer 2nd class, who they said lived at a Kirk-bride Ave. address in Pearl City. Police were not immediately able to locate any family by that name and ship's agents said it was believed the two gave fictitious names and were not brothers.

Thej' were turned over to Honolulu police for booking as delinquents and were to remain at the Detention Home overnight. They told the Hawaii's captain, Alfred E. Sinnes, they stowed away successfully aboard a Matson ship four weeks ago from Hawaii to the Mainland, then decided to return home. He fed them and locked them in a cabin until the ship docked at Pier 2. Agent for the steamship line is Oahu Railway Terminal Warehousing Co.

Ltd. Representatives met the ship last night. i -Despite Continued from Page i was made Saturday morning to burn the school. Someone spilled gasoline on the wooden library's porch and set it afire. The fire was discovered and extinguished before it could cause damage.

Police are searching for a man, about 20, who was seen running across the school-grounds shortly after the Saturday fire had been discovered. YESTERDAY'S fire started on the same porch and spread quickly through the old buildings. Police Sgt. Christopher Faria saw the fire from his duty station across the street at theKaneohe police, station. "I went to investigate, and by that time the porch was aflame," Faria said.

"It already was beyond getting under control with a garden hose or a fire extinguisher." Faria sent another policeman to the Kaneohe fire station, across Kamehameha Hwy. from the school. The officer pounded on-the fire station door, rang the doorbell and aroused firemen. BUT BEFORE the first hose could be attached to a nearby hydrant, most of the wooden building housing the library, administration of fices and auditorium was Flames leaped 60 feet into the air-during the height of the Reflected against the night clouds, the fire resembled an erupting volcano. The glow could be seen as far as Waikiki.

Youngsters driving through Waikiki or at drive-ins saw the glow and began a caravan across the Pali. Hundreds of persons stood on the front lawn of the Kaneohe fire station and in a nearby supermarket parking lot to watch the fire. SPARKS WERE carried to the roofs of nearby homes, but none was set afire. Some residents sprayed water on their homes to protect them. Some pajama-clad residents rushed to the school-grounds and helped firemen steady hoses during the three-hour blaze.

More than 35 firemen from six stations on Windward Oahu and from Honolulu fought the fire. The blaze swept through the U-shaped complex of buildings with such force that it scorched grass 200 feet away. NEARBY COCONUT palms caught fire and went up like torches one of them on the grounds of the police station. Dull explosions echoed from some classrooms. Win-dowpanes melted.

Roofs of the burning buildings collapsed and shot sparks high into the air. THE FIRE burned to the ground 23 classrooms, the auditorium, cafeteria, library, dispensary, teacher's rest rooms and all administration offices. About 90 per cent of school's supplies and equipment were housed in the burned portion. The lost supplies included all the new furniture for the school's five new portable classrooms. The buildings not damaged bv fire included a new two-story concrete wing of classrooms, two quonset huts left over from World War II, two older small classroom units and the new portable classrooms.

THE DEPARTMENT of Education said these rooms, along with whatever porta- INJURED IN SHOOTING: Admitted to Brackenridge Hospital: John Scott Allen, Austin; Rowland Ehlke, 21, Austin; Avelino Esparza, 23, San Antonio; Mary Frances Gabour, 41, Texarkana, 19, Texarkana, Irma Garcia, 21, Brownsville, Karen Griffith, Austin." David Gumby, Austin; 'Nancy Harvey, 21, Austin; Robert Heard, 36, Austin; Alec Hernandez, 17, Austin; Morris Holman, 30, Austin; Dev-ereau Huffman, Austin; Ho-mar Kelley, Austin; Abdul Khashab, 25, Austin; Adrian Littlefield, 19, Conroe, Tex. David Mattson, 23, Austin Janet Paulas, 24, Austin; Lana Phillips, 21, Austin; Oscar Rayvela, 21, Austin; Billy Snowden, 35, Austin; Miguel Solis, 25, Austin; Claire Wilson, 18, Austin. INJURED IN THE SHOOT-ING, ADMITTED TO SE-TON HOSPITAL: Brenda Wilkinson Little-field, Austin, fair condition. PERSONS INJURED AND TREATED AND SENT HOME: Robert Frede, Dolores Ortega, F. L.

Foster, Austin; C. A. Stewart, Baytown, Clara Wheeler, Austin. rifp; i vm 3:1 PIUSOlEIi 5 I I 5 i will cost some $108,807 and is 'being built by S. K.

Oda, Ltd. HAUNAIO, a long-time Kalapana resident and park forestry technician, spoke in Hawaiian. Bean gave a short history of the area, the nation's 11th national park. He said the park actually outdates the National Park Service, which was created on Aug. 25,1916.

Continued from Page 1 airlines, said the situation was now in the hands of Congress. A SPOKESMAN for the International Association of Machinists said the union totally opposed the committee bill but would not defy the law. "If the politicians, and legislators would leave the strike alone, it would settle' itself," he said. Negotiator Curtin flatly denied a report that the airlines have offered a further wage increase above that included in the offer rejected by the machinists. "No further offer has been made," Curtin said.

THE MEASURE sent to the Senate sponsored by Sen. Joseph S. Clark D-Pa. would declare that the strike interferes with essential transportation services and would give the President authority to order the 35,400 striking machinists back to work for no more than 180 days. In the meantime, the President could appoint a special board to try to reach a new settlement.

He would have to decide whether to issue the executive order, and for how long. The resolution differed chiefly from an earlier measure by dropping a provision for as many as three consecutive 60-day cooling-off periods and substituting authority for a blanket 180 days, at the President's discretion. DURING TnE committee's closed session, Sen. Paul J. Fannin, lost a move to have Congress order an initial 60-day back-to-work period and thus avoid any assertion that it was passing the buck to the White House.

Fannin's amendment failed on an 8-8 vote. Morse said he will offer his bill as a substitute for the Clark measure. The Committee acted while Under Sesretary W. Willard Wirtz was meeting with Curtin. The secretary said they did not discuss the matter of negotiations and added he would confer with the union side today.

THE WHITE HOUSE expressed President Johnson's "regrets' that the machinists had rejected the contract terms reached under Johnson's auspices and en If? II Kl 3T IfrgM IIsinliFrnn hps: -1 tel Evlrailfcx PcrtsOTf CALL: Stats Priscn 818711 Hen C-873311 night endorsed Democratic State Rep. Akira Sakima for reelection from the 11th District. Speaking at a testimonial dinner at Kaewai Elementary School auditorium. Burns reviewed some of the New Hawaii programs and the role Sakima had played in them. He said Sakima had worked for bis and small farmers, as well as for the economic growth of the State.

Burns said Sakima probably is the most knowledgeable member of the Legislature in the area of agriculture. The Governor praised Sakima for his persistence and perseverance in seeing that funds were released for construction for 11th District projects. He said Sakima, as chairman of the House Finance Committee, was instrumental in bringing about the construction of new school facilities. Thomas P. GUI, expected to be a candidate for lieutenant governor, cited Sakima's sincerity and integrity.

Sakima spoke of the importance of education, especially in the Kalihi area. "This is the backbone for the growth of the State," he said. "You can't move ahead without people who The park was created on Aug. 1, 1916. BEAN POINTED to four great values of the park volcanism, the animals, the plants and preservation of things historical.

Wahaula Heiau behind the visitor center is believed to have been built in the 13th century, Bean said. About 50 Big Islanders watched the ceremonies. Seen Him Lately? SAKIMA are educated." Sakima said he favors social welfare legislation, including raising the standards at Waimano Homes, the State Hospital and detention homes. He said the proposed Foreign Trade Zone here will create jobs and will mean more income for the State. About 400 persons attended the dinner.

Martinez Continued from Page 1 tongue, protruding out the side, of his mouth, on the steps of the tower?" asked Police Chief R. A. (Bob) Miles. Martinez talked to one man who had survived the carnage and talked him out of taking a gun and charging out onto the observation tower himself. MARTINEZ AND his buddies rushed the gunman.

Martinez fired six shots in rapid succession the first he had ever shot on duty as an Austin policeman the sniper fired at him. McCoy fired a shotgun and Martinez grabbed it and fired again. Then Martinez waved a green flag lying beside the sniper's body, signaling it was over. i Seen this fellow? lie's Robert J. DeCosta, 41, who escaped Friday from State Prison in a can of garbage.

Police want him. If you see the 5-foot-6, 160-pounder, call police, 973-311. Volcanoes Park Marks Its 50 th Anniversary- KALAPANA, Hawaii-Ceremonies at the Kalapana end of the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park's Chain of Craters Road yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the creation of the park. Park Superintendent Glen Bean and John Haunaio participated in the program, which included the groundbreaking for Wahaula Visitor Center. The visitor center is at the Kalapana end of the road.

It Advertiser Photo by T. Umed Two stowaways in custody, with "Sonny" in front,.

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