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13 THE MORNING CALL. ALLENTOWN, MONDAY, AUGUST 18. 1980 A3 James Dallas Egbert enters death's dungeon DAYTON. Ohio (AP) James Dallas Egbert was the subject of national curiosity when his disappearance sparked speculation that he was the victim of a "Dungeons and Dragons" game gone awry. Now he's dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, but questions about his life are unanswered.

Egbert died Saturday at Grandview Hospital, five days after police said he shot himself in the head, and a year and a day after he vanished from the campus of Michigan State University. His parents, optometrist James Egbert and Anna Egbert, said yesterday a private graveside service will be held for family members only, but would not give the date of the funeral. When Egbert dropped from sight for 28 days last year, his friends described the 17- year-old computer whiz as brilliant, aloof and intellectual. his hobbies had to do with challenges to his mind," said Capt. Ferman Badgley of the MSU campus police.

"Competition for him was in his brain. Without a challenge, he got bored consequently he turned to the bizarre." Private detective William Dear of Dallas found the youth and reunited him with his parents last Sept. 13. Since then, Dear has said he's the only one who knows all the details of the case. He said he found Egbert locked in a dingy room with two single beds in an undisclosed location.

Dear said he will decide after Egbert's funeral whether to reveal details of his investigation. Egbert had been on a life-support system at Grandview since last Monday. The hospital did not immediately reveal the youth's death at 3:50 p.m., giving notification of relatives and removal of the organs as the reason for the delay. A hospital spokesman said many of Egbert's organs would be donated to hospitals. Montgomery County Coroner Jim Davis said at a news conference yesterday that doctors tested Egbert's brain waves and found no activity on Saturday.

They pronounced him legally dead and removed the life support systems, Davis added. The coroner's office has made no official ruling on the death. Family members and hospital officials said Thursday that the boy would not recover from brain damage caused by the single caliber gunshot wound to the temple. Egbert disappeared Aug. 15, 1979, from Michigan State, where he entered school as a 15-year-old freshman studying computers.

He didn't return to school after his mysterious return, and spent the last year working for his father's business near the family home in Huber Heights, a Dayton suburb. Ma Bell workers strike in N.Y., reach agreement in From Associated Press reports Tens of thousands of telephone workers went on strike yesterday in California and New York in a dispute over local issues, but officials of the Bell System said tentative settlements have been reached on new contracts across the rest of the country. Among those reaching tentative agreement with Ma Bell Pennsylvania workers who settled on new three contracts for unionized telephone workers. The tentative James Dallas Egbert computer whiz dies British close their embassy in Iran The New York Times LONDON Britain announced yesterday that it had "temporarily" closed its embassy in Tehran, which has been the scene of large and angry demonstrations for several days. "We just thought at a time of tension, it was best to pull in a bit," a Foreign Office spokesman explained, adding that the situation would be reviewed daily, and that the embassy might be reopened again at any time.

The embassy staff, which was cut back sharply last spring, when the Common Market countries imposed sanctions against Iran, was further reduced Saturday, leaving only three British diplomats in Tehran. The decision to lock up the gates of the well-fortified British Embassy compound in the heart of Tehran was the latest reflection of a serious deterioration in relations between Britain and Iran, which is causing increasing concern within the government here. The growing diplomatic problem also includes apprehensions about the fate of three British missionaries who have been arrested in Iran this month and are being held incommunicado, and about the 63 young Iranian demonstrators in jail here, most of whom are staging a hunger strike. In the dogma of revolutionary Iran, Britain has been regarded as second only to the United States as a politial evil. The crowds outside the embassy in Tehran in recent days have been protesting the arrest of the Iranians at an anti-American demonstration in London on Aug.

4 The largest demonstration, and the one that prompted the decision to close the embassy altogether, took place on Friday, when an angry crowd of more than 1,000 stormed over from a nearby mosque after the weekly prayers, and stood outside chanting and shaking their fists. The people who will be most immediately affected by the decision to close the embassy are the Iranians who have been crowding it for months, seeking visas for trips to Britain. The British diplomats in Iran, meanwhile, are continuing to try to see the three imprisoned Anglican missionaries, who are thought to be undergoing interrogation by revolutionary guards somewhere in Tehran. The embassy has been officially informed that the three Dr. John Coleman, his wife, Audrey, and Miss Jean Waddell are being held, but it has been denied access to them.

Some diplomats think that the arrests of the Britons might have been related to the arrests a few days earlier of the Iranian demonstrators who scuffled with police outside the American Embassy in London. Those demonstrators are still being held in jail, after nearly two weeks, because of their refusal to tell court authorities their names. If they did, they could be granted bail on the charges against them, which include assault on the police and threatening behavior. Brown denies U.S. plans to invade Iran WASHINGTON (AP) Defense Secretary Harold Brown denied yesterday that the United States plans to invade Iran, but refused to say whether there would be another attempt to rescue U.S.

hostages. Brown was asked to comment on a report by columnist Jack Anderson which said the United States is planning an invasion. "No, that's not true," Brown replied on ABC's Issues and Answers. He then was asked whether there would be another attempt to rescue the 52 Americans held captive in Iran. One previous attempt failed.

"I will not either confirm that or deny it," Brown said. "That is the kind of thing I just would not want to talk about. An Anderson column, scheduled for release today but already made public, will say the invasion is planned in mid-October to boost President Carter's re-election chances. The White House vigorously denied that an invasion is planned. Meanwhile, The Washington Post said in yesterday's editions that it had decided against publishing the Anderson column.

Washington Post could find no substantiation for the assertions in Anderson's column, and therefore decided against running it," the newspaper said. "'Top civilian and military officials queried by The Post about Anderson's assertions denied them At one time, officials believed the fantasy game "Dungeons and depragonisht a game usually played on hold the key to his disappearance. Egbert told his mother he played the game in the more than eight miles of steam tunnels under the Michigan State campus, and police searched the tunnels for him. The complex game pits players against obstacles and medieval monsters, and is normally played with dice and a map of a dungeon or caves the players travel through. When Egbert disappeared, police and Dear speculated he might be involved in a real life episode of the game.

sat here many an hour, all of us wondering is Dallas (Egbert) the dungeon master," Dear last year. "Or if he isn't the dungeon master, is there some other dungeon master who has pulled all of us into this game by using him as some sort of Pa. agreement followed all-night negotiating of local issues lingering after last week's national settlement, a Bell of Pennsylvania spokesman said. The Federation of Telephone Workers of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Telephone Union and the Pennsylvania Telephone Guild represent 21,250 Bell employees throughout the state, company spokesman Bob Bridgeo said. Agreements on general wages, benefits and pension provisions were reached Aug.

9 between negotiators for American Telephone and ficials said, because the system is highly Telegraph's Bell System and three national automated. But in Northern California, unions. possibly elsewhere, the directory assistance The local talks dealt with issues including service was for a time not operating. promotion policy, additional wage increases, The negotiations continued in New increased reimbursement for expenses, up- and resumed in California late yesterday grading of job titles and alterations in the afternoon after breaking off earlier in grievance procedure, Bridgeo said. About 33,000 telephone installers, reNationwide, the California and New York pairmen and central office craftsmen strikes were expected to have a minimal effect the New York Telephone and 66,000 on general telephone service, company of- telephone employees walked off their Associated Press Selig, left, and Zrilu Jacob, youngest brothers of Lili Meier, are shown at Auschwitz in this 1944 photo from an album found at the camp by their sister.

The boys died at the camp. 'Holy document' of A Auschwitz found By JO THOMAS Of The New York Times MIAMI It is an album filled with, photographs of people on the edge of death. the new Jewish arrivals at Auschwitz in 1944. A young survivor found the album and, in it, her own photograph and those of her parents, grandparents and little brothers, now all dead. She kept the album for 36 years.

It was not until three weeks ago that Serge Klarsfeld, a Nazi hunter, found Lili Jacob, now Mrs. Eric Meier, a waitress in Miami Beach, and told her the album was, in his words, "a holy document" containing all but three of the known photographs of the Jews at Auschwitz. A number of photographs that Mrs. Meier sold from her album to the Jewish Museum in Prague in 1946 to get money to emigrate to the United States have been reproduced in books all over the world, Klarsfeld said in a telephone interview recently. But the existence of the album itself had not been known.

The album is also significant, he said. because it shows that all the Auschwitz photographs, taken by an unknown official of the S.S. (Nazi elite guard), were made in 1944. Previously, he said, historians believed they were taken over a period of years. Mrs.

Meier has agreed to give the album to the Yad Vashem Museum in Israel in a ceremony Aug. 25. stone will come off my she said recently. "I want to close the past," she said, looking at a stack of copies of the photographs in the album, which will remain in a bank vault until her departure. "I felt this was all I had left.

I never thought of parting with it. But I'm feeling relieved that I'm doing the right thing. She was 17 when she arrived at Auschwitz. Her family had lived in Bilki, a town' then in Czechoslovakia and now in the Soviet Union. Her father against the Pacific and in the Bell System.

The three-year percent wage York contract, including ing clause which the day. Currently telephone to $287 a week struck $388 to $431 a the country. Union jobs vote on the pact BRIEFLY Another MIAMI Armed onto selected commercial wary after a record three foiled what the FBI said yesterday. Many marshals would said, and would act on a airports were the best don't want any shootouts spokesman for the Federal Washington. Two men both Miami International gasoline as they tried to Miami to Key West, said A third man, seeing taken into custody, but charged, Hayes said.

The arrests capped hijacked to Cuba, all by in the United States, were arrested in Tampa a flight with gasoline, against the men found mediately available. The six hijackings U.S. history, and the three single day. All planes, safely. Federal Aviation Myers said marshals aircraft leaving Florida Miami-New York.

In many know a marshal was "These sky marshals of Florida and from some "But Florida is the hot national pact calls a 34 increase over the life of the an -ended cost-of-livcould put the increase higher. operators earn from $264 and installers and craft workers week depending on the region of members nationwide will Sept. 20. Telephone the largest hijack try foiled federal sky marshals were ordered aircraft as security agents, hijackings to Cuba in one day, was yet another hijack attempt wear plain clothes, officials policy that security checks at way to prevent hijackings. in the sky," said John Leyton, Aviation Administration in Cuban refugees were arrested at Airport yesterday with bottles of board Air Florida's flight from FBI agent Bill Hayes.

talking to the other two, was also was released later without being a week in which six U.S. jets were Cuban refugees unhappy with life according to Hays. Four other Cubans on Saturday night before boarding officials said. Details on charges carrying gasoline were not im- were the most in a single week in Saturday were the most in a passengers and crews returned Administration spokesman Roger would fly on randomly chosen and on other routes, including cases, passengers would not aboard, he said. will be flying selected flights out other cities," he said in Atlanta.

spot right now. Titanic searchers call off effort was a cattle dealer. One day the whole family was told to gather a few things to go to a resettlement camp. The cattle cars took them instead to the death camp. When her family was divided up by the guards, "three brothers went to the left with my father and the two youngest went to the right with my mother." She went on: "Me, they selected out.

I looked like I could work. I ran back to my mother. The guard noticed me and ran back. He beat me up and called me all sorts of dirty names. He stabbed me in the arm with a bayonet.

I never saw my parents She testified against the guard in a 1964 trial in a German court in Frankfurt, and she still bears the scar of the bayonet wound on her arm. The tattoo she was given on May 9, 1944, was erased many years later in Miami Beach after she won a contest on the television program "Queen for a Day." She asked for a plastic surgeon to remove the tattoo, and it was done. When Klarsfeld rang her doorbell last month, he knew the tattoo number. It was one of the reasons Mrs. Meier changed her mind about being afraid to open her door.

On the day Auschwitz was liberated by Allied troops in December 1944, Lili Jacob was ill with typhus, lying in a camp hospital. "We heard noise, music something we never heard. So we ran down to see. I was weak and I passed out. Two of my friends carried me into a deserted German barracks.

"It was very cold. When I woke up. I was freezing. I saw a nightstand and reached for a pajama jacket. The album was underneath.

When my friends came back, we looked in it and we found a picture of the rabbi who married my parents. Then I found a picture of my two brothers." The photograph shows Selig Jacob. then 10 years old, and Zrilu, then a star pinned to his coat, the faces of both boys serious and uncertain. Another photograph, on a page labeled in elegant script, "No More Capable Men," shows old people near a boxcar. One man with a white beard was her grandfather.

A woman lying on the ground was her grandmother. Lili Jacob was in the front row of another picture showing a of young women in ill-fitting dresses, their heads shaved. There are dozens of other pictures, some taken twice, as if the photographer wanted to be sure he was not out of focus: Pregnant women walking to their deaths, old women and young children waiting outside the ovens in a pleasant grove chosen so they would not be alarmed. The photographer is not known. Klarsfeld said recently that he believed it was Ernst Hofmann, teacher by profession, had become assistant to the chief of the identification service at Auschwitz.

When she left the camp, Lili Jacob took the album with her. She married Max Zelmanovic, a childhood friend who had also survived the camps. Penniless, she sold some of the photographs in Prague in 1946 so she could come to the United States. When she arrived in New York in 1948, she had the album in her arms. She has worked as a waitress at the Famous Restaurant in Miami Beach for 26 years, and the years have brought two children and three grandsons.

Zelmanovic died three years ago and she has remarried. The walls of her home are hung with color photographs of smiling children, but she also treasures the black and white pictures of people who do not smile people who were caught for a moment before they vanished. Finally, she is ready to let them go. "I am happily married. I have a good job.

I have nice people to work for," she said. "After I go to Israel I'm going to Auschwitz. I want to close the past." NEW YORK The stormy North Atlantic, which served up an iceberg 68 years ago to sink the luxury liner Titanic, yesterday bested an expedition aimed at finding the vessel's wreck, and the mission was called off. Searchers hope to revive the effort next year using a manned submarine. Scientists aboard the research vessel H.J.W.

Fay had sought to lower cameras to 12,000 feet below the choppy seas to check on an object picked up by sonar that was believed to be the Titanic's wreck. "We were unable to get the cameras down. We got one of the towers down, but we were never able to use the cameras," said Mike Harris, a documentary filmmaker from Tampa, who heads the $1 million search for the ship in which more than 1,500 people died. Harris said the decision to call off the search and return to port was made at 3:45 a.m. yesterday, New York time.

The 180-foot chartered research ship, which carries a crew of 38, had been scheduled to return to Boston 10 days ago, but delayed its departure. Bad weather and dwindling supplies of food and fuel thwarted a continued effort to take television and still pictures of the object on the sea bottom, Harris said. Although the general area of the sinking has long been known, the Titanic's wreck was never found because of the great ocean depths in the area. Small part of Brinks heist loot recovered SAN FRANCISCO The FBI said yesterday $20,000 of the $1.85 million taken from a Brink's armed truck on Friday has been recovered, but the search for a guard charged in the heist goes on. "It's a nominal figure when compared to the amount taken," Bruce Burroughs of the FBI said of the money.

The recovered money was mailed to a San Francisco man as repayment in a "legitimate business deal," the FBI said. The money was in $50 and $100 bills. The bureau refused to say where the envelope was mailed from or who had received it. During the weekend, agents combed San Francisco's gay community and questioned relatives of George Manuel Bosque, 25, in Miami looking for leads. with The FBI described Bosque, 25, as "known to associate, homosexuals." Carrying pictures of the moustachioed 6-footer, agents fanned out over the city's Castro area, asking gay-bar patrons and others if they knew where Bosque might be.

They also expanded their search to include a man they believe to be Bosque's Daly City roommate, Carl H. Denton, 22, said William D. Newman, special agent in charge of the San Francisco office. Newman said they wanted to question Denton but said he was not a suspect in the theft. Bosque has been charged with making off with the loot after a routine pickup Friday at San Francisco International Airport.

Associated Press.