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Journal and Courier Lafayette West Lafayette Ind Monday September 3 1973 Vol 54 No 209 15 Cents AIR See Page A 2 News Briefs Mental Patient Back inHospital NILES Mich (AP) One of three mental patients who es caped during an outing at a White Sox game in Chicago a week ago fias been captured Michigan state police said they found the patient Joseph Crec chio 28 in a Niles bar and re turned him to Beatty Hospital in Westville Ind Checchio was one of 16 patients who attended the baseball game with three nurses Aug 26 The other two escaped Rich ard Carver 42 and Paul Reed are still at large Hotel Blaze atal to Two BUALO NY (AP) Two guests were killed Sunday when fire swept through a second story wing of a new nine story hotel in suburban Cheektowaga The victims were identified as Thomas Sciera 25 of Cheek towagC and Zandra rank 26 of suburban Depew Between 500 and 600 guests were in the $85 million Sheaton Inn Buffalo East when the fire broke out Gls Arrested In Drug Raid RANKURT Germany (AP) Eight US soldiers were ar rested in a drug raid on a Ger man nightclub in Giessen a US army spokesman said Sunday The spokesman said the sol diers were turned over to US military authorities and were being held on various charges including possession of hashish and having false identity papers The raid took place at the Scarabee Club in Giessen a city about 30 miles north of here ire Approaches Chemical Cans NEW ORLEANS (AP) ire broke out Sunday aboard a grounded freighter in the Mis sissippi River and burned out of control as it approached con tainers of a highly toxic chem ical the Coast Guard said There were no reports of in juries but the 500 residents of Phoenix La were evacuated as a precaution police said The Coast Guard said the 306 foot freighter carried eight tons of tetra ethyl a chemical which when heated gives off vapors that can destroy human tissue Index Ann Landers A14 Arts Leisure A10 Classified B7 13 Comics B14 Crossword B10 Deaths A4 Editorials A12 Home amily A13 14 Metro Report A3 4 Regional Report A7 8 Sports Report Bl 5 Weather A2 Happening A4 Telephones: Circulation 742 7363 News Ads Business 742 4011 Ombudsman 742 8102 Chuckle The world started going to pieces about the time it aban the hand cranked ice cream freezer That is the finest device ever invented for teaching youth that work has its rewards Labor Day Last of Summer By The Associated Press Millions of Americans fled hot cities and towns to enjoy the last fling of summer Sunday but the National Safety Council in Chicago estimated that 550 to 650 would never make it home from their holidays That was the expected toll from road accidents drownings and other perils of the Labor Day weekend The death toll approached 360 by midnight Sunday East of the Mississippi the country sweltered in 90 degree temperatures but some of the plain and mountain states reported cold rains and icy tem peratures It was 25 degrees in Ely Nev and 43 in Salt Lake City International alls Minn reported three inches of rain and there was snow above the 8000 foot level in Utah There were traditional clam bakes in New England fish fries in the South and com roasts in the Midwest There was also the traditional Labor Day roasting of politicians by union leaders President George Meany of the AL CIO urged that wage and price con trols be phased out over the next six months He accused President Nixon of refusing to up to the problems of the trouble with Meany said on the ABC program and is that are put on by Labor Secretary Peter Brennan acknowledged are problems we must work together to but added can look back over a year of real gains for all Among these he said was a rise in employment of nearly 3 million per sons Jerry Wurf president of the Ameri can ederation of State County and Municipal Employes AL CIO called Labor Day festival of unhappiness for American workers plagued by high prices and economic Despite claim it look like a of as the Chamber of Commerce passed out 100000 free cigars at Coney Island nor as stemwheel river steamers raced on the Kanawha River in Charleston Va It was alsoi a cheerful scene at Rayne La where ttfe first annual frog festival was being held frog capital of the as the Cajun town calls itself was honor ing its own astrofrogs Pierre and Tee Nom who were selected by NASA to be launched into space The main event comes today when sponsors said girls serving as frog jockeys will enter giant bullfrogs in a novel and exciting jumping con More traditional sports attracted holiday crowds too There were stock car races at Darlington SC and Ontario Calif the Sammy Davis Jr Greater Hartford Open golf classic in Connecticut the usual holiday baseball games and exhibition football games Some outings ended tragically A two year old baby girl was killed the woman on whose back she was strapped papoose style severely in jured and the driver also killed when their motorcycle was in a collision at Sound Beach Long Island NY A woman and child were killed when their cabin cruiser exploded at nearby Lindenhurst With most business and industry shut down over the holiday New York State had its second day without a power cut although it was still scorch ing hot Thundershowers brought some relief but a spokesman for 'the National Weather Service said it feels even worse after the rain be cause it gets In another Labor Day speech I Abel president of the Industrial Union Department of the AL CIO said American workers are con cerned that their living standards which they have labored so hard to improve through the past decade are being He said interest rates have nearly doubled food prices are way up and worse there is no ena in Leonard Woodcock president of the United Auto Workers indicated his union would strike Chrysler Corp later this month unless abandon their very opposition to allowing voluntary overtime But he said on the he was still hopeful that a set tlement for a new contract could be reached peacefully in the automobile in 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Miss Illinois Colleen Ann Metternich of Carthage shows winner in diving actually was showing how not to dive her diving form during early activities at the Miss America (AP Wirephoto) pageant in Atlantic City NJ Miss Metternich a medal In Canada Rails Rolling Again State Prison Inmates Hold Three OTTAWA (AP) strike troubled railroads began to roll for the first time in 11 days Sunday but pickets were still up in western provinces and transcontinental service remained sus pended The largest of the striking unions the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Transport and General Workers balked at a government back to work order and told its members to remain on strike Although many workers remained off their jobs the railroads said service had resumed in eastern Ontario Quebec and the Atlantic provinces erry service between the main land and Prince Edward Island New foundland and Nova Scotia also started up again allowing thousands of tourists to return to the mainland Many had already taken air carriers leaving their autos behind to be shipped Tne balking union which speaks for 18000 of the 56000 nonoperating work ers who struck 11 railroads urged its members to further study the back to work agreement handed down by Parliament Saturday Spokesmen for another union the Brotherhood of Railway Airline and Steamship Clerks said in Vancouver and Winnipeg that its members would not go back to work despite urgihgs from the national leadership Most of the union leaders called their members back to work on Sunday al though officials pointed out that many of the workers would not normally re port to work before the end of the Labor Day weekend Grain trains began moving in some provinces on Sunday but railroad officials warned that the grain ship ments would not be back to normal for at least a week Canadian National Railway officials said they expect thousands of freight cars clogging the rails in the mountain region to move soon Under the legislation the average minimum salary of the strikers will be hiked about 18 per cent to $419 an hour by July 1 1974 The rail strike which has tied up passenger and freight traffic and closed a number of factories came in the midst of contract negotiations between the unions and 11 Canadian railroads and followed a month of regional ro tating strikes It and several other labor disputes at several paper plants in Quebec and Ontario have greatly curtailed news print production and caused many US publishers to cut the size of their news papers or cut out some editions MICHIGAN CITY (AP) Inmates seized control of three cellblocks at the Indiana State Prison Sunday taking three officers hostage to press a set of 10 demands Negotiations continued late into the night 12 hours after the partial prison takeover State and local police armed with shotguns were rushed to the maximum prison Late Sunday night the lawmen cordoned off the prison block ing newsmen and others from determin ing exactly what was occurring inside State police said dissident prisoners started a at 10:40 am Sun day seizing three of the five cellblocks and the three unarmed guards who were manning the areas The three cellblocks (A and D) house 900 of the estimated 1500 in mates Warden Russell Lash arrived at the prison early Sunday and began nego tiating with the inmates whose de mands were said to include changes in mail food visiting privileges and dis ciplinary procedures Lash surrounded by armed police men was reported in the prison yard Sunday night sorting out de mands Earlier he had identified the hostages as Arthur Jacques and Donald Schultz both of Michigan City and Sgt Joseph Kujawski of South Bend There were no reports of injuries or damage to the prison and the hostages were reported to be unharmed Rudolph Clay an Indiana state sena tor arrived at the prison Sunday night and offered to be an intermediary in the negotiations on inmate demands It could not be learned if offer was accepted Clay a member of a state Senate Task orce on Correction said he had just completed a tour of 'US prisons including San Quentin place is a lot worse than Clay said1 Prison officials said they did not know how many inmates were actually in volved in the cellblock takeover They 1 said the trouble might have been sparked by a severe stabbing of an in mate Saturday night A prison spokesman said takeover might have been in sympathy with three or four inmates who were locked in solitary confinement ufter the stabbing large number of inmates appar ently in sympathy with them went on the rampage he said seized control of the three cellhouses and took the officer on duty in each cellhouse hostage else is secure We have all the rest of the prison under security We hope none of our employes gets There have been other unconnected incidents at Indiana penal institutions in recent weeks James Lee Collins 25 an inmate at Indiana State Prison was killed Mon day Aug 21 when what police called went off in his cell igniting other explosive materials in the cell Lash said Collins was involved with three other inmates in an escape sched uled for later that week Then Saturday three Indiana State Penal arm inmates were shocked fa tally and six others injured when the conveyor they were using to load hay into a barn loft touched a power line at the institution The most recetnt serious disturbance at the Michigan City prison occurred Dec 6 1972 Three guards at the prison were in jured on that occasion when they were attacked by a dozen inmates in a dining room Only days before that another' guard suffered a broken jaw in a fight with three inmates The 113 year old prison occupies about 10 city blocks on the west side of Michigan City a town of 40000 located about one mile south of the Lake Michigan shoreline It still houses pris oners in facilities built around the time of the Civil War The most recent alterations at prison were completed in the 1950s and 1960s Convict Charged in Hotel ire COPENHAGEN Denmark A court charged a 34 year old Dane on leave from prison with willful arson Sunday night in the Haf nia hotel fife in which 35 persons in cluding 20 Americans died The suspect Bent Willy Nielsen de nied the charge but the judge ordered him jailed for one week pending a further police probe However the judge noted that police were charging Nielsen with arson be fore presenting proof that arson was involved in the Hafnia fire Police refused to disclose what Niel sen was serving his prison term for except that the conviction had nothing to do with fire or arson and was for an act committed outside Denmark Nielsen admitted he checked int5 the hotel under the name of Jarsild an hour before the fire broke out Satur day and haggled over the price of his room until the night porter agreed to a reduced rate for one night Nielsen was among the survivors hospitalized for treatment though he turned out to have escaped totally un hurt It was while waiting for treat ment he allegedly told three Ameri cans the fire was his fault Police based the charge against him on circumstantial evidence: His quick escape fully dressed from the fire his use of a false name his remarks at the hospital and what was general ly described as his peculiar behavior Nielsen denied all accusations and said he was in bed when he noticed the smell of smoke found the corri dor filled with smoke dressed quickly and went to his window shouting for help until firemen took him down a ladder He said he used a false name be cause he was violating the conditions of his prison leave by going into a ho tel instead of using a private address agreed upon with prison authorities Police said the arrest came after an American couple who survived the fire identified Nielsen as the man who told thm in a hospital: it ter rible and all my Nielsen denied this in court and insisted his English was too poor for him to have said that fire chief told news men earlier that the management of the Hafnia had with the lives of its 1 Another fire official reported the ho tel had been warned it was inviting itspatrons sleep in a Municipal ire Chief Jan Amnitzboel told a news conference that even if the 74 year old hotel was up to the minimum safety standards required for buildings of that age safety mea sures were from adequate Once more we will now have to press for stricter standards for all hotels new and The fire fighting experts listed these factors as contributing to the Hafnia disaster: The rear of the hotel ringed a very small courtyard which acted as a flue for the fire and made it in accessible to fire engines with ladders there was no automatic fire alarm no automatic sprinkler installation and no fireproof doors or staircases Justice Minister Axel Nielsen said the Hafnia fire would make him con sider a strengthening of safety re quirements have a new situation he said iremen and police continued to search through the i of the burned out hotel and reported on the terror and tragedy dug from the ruins: Desperate men and women who had climbed to the roof only to fall into an inferno when the flames burst through children who had died in one room while their parents escaped from another In one third floor bathroom firemen found a man lying across his wife and two children who he apparently tried to protect with his body as the ceiling caved in Nearly all the dead were foreign tourists and from all over the world relatives began flying into Copenhagen to join survivors in assisting police in the job of identifying the victims.