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Lansing, Illinois, Friday, September 25, 1970 4 Sections 50 Pages 10c iusseie, Foe Make. Peace IMES 15 Jet Hostages Freed BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) King Hussein of Jordan and Palestinian guerrilla leader Yasir Arafat today announced agreement to end the civil war in Jordan. The announcement followed word from army commander Habis Majali that 15 of 54 hijacked airline passengers held hostage by Jordanian guerrillas had been freed. Released were eight Britons, five Swiss and two West Germans. All but one of the 39 hostages who remained in the guerrillas' hands were believed to be Americans.

Majale said arrangements tages, from three planes hijacked to the Jordanian desert Sept 6 and 9. Most of the hostages were released earlier. The planes were blown up. The guerrillas have demanded the release of Palestinian commandos jailed in Britain, West Germany, Switzerland and Israel as ransom for the hostages. Majali and Jussein both issued orders over Amman Radio for their troops to abide by the cease-fire after reports of more fighting around Irbid in northern Jordan.

FIFTH-EIGHT FOREIGNERS, 32 of I 5 Arafat early today. On Wednesday Arafat had spurned a cease-fire reached between Hussein and two captured guerrilla leaders. Field Marshal Majali said the freed airline passengers "are now in army hands preparatory to their delivery to their home countries." He did not say how they were freed from the guerrillas. Originally, there were some 400 hos Continued on Back Page This Section in Eastern Mediterranean. (f, i Gen.

Daoud resigns. Israeli tank crew keeps watch on Jordan from Syria. Linda Convicted Plant Faces Pollution Suit Of Killing would be made quickly to get the freed passengers out of Amman. The agreement between Hussein, Arafat and Arab mediator Jaafar el Nu-mairi, president of Sudan, was announced over Amman Radio. It was the first time Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, agreed to stop fighting in nine days of bloody civil war.

THE AGREEMENT followed reports on Cairo Radio that Numairi met with U.S. Sixth Fleet's aircraft jury. When he asked each of the six men and six women, this your verdict?" each said "yes." The jurors filed out without talking. Mrs. Darby shook her head very slowly and finally began to cry.

All the jurors were gone when spectators left the courtroom and Mrs. Smerdovac took Mrs. Darby upstairs to talk alone with her parents. Deputy prosecutor George Fisher had told the jury when the case began it was built on circumstantial evidence. In his office someone started to congratulate him.

Fisher said, "when it's all over, I don't feel any better." Charles Darby's relatives were not present for the verdict. A sister, Mrs. Mary Lininger of Lansing, had been present since the trial began but had gone to a corner restaurant for coffee. She didn't expect the jury would finish its job in the 75 minutes it deliberated. DARBY WAS A carpenter.

He was 25 when a shotgun blast killed him last March 3 in his bedroom in the Darby home at 7545 Beech Hammond. He Continued on Back Page This Section Hopes Fading For Balloon NEW YORK (UPI) A Coast Guard spokesman reported today it has no idea what the chances are for survival of the three balloonists misisng in the North Atlantic since Monday. Two U.S. Coast Guard cutters, 11 American planes and one Canadian plane are involved in the search of 50,000 miles. The Coast Guard said it would continue the search at least through today.

The search was hampered Thursday by fog that reduced the visibility to virtually nothing. The missing persons included Rodney Anderson, 32, a New York commodities broker, his actress wife, Pamela Brown 28, and British balloon pilot Malcolm Brighton, 32. Detergent WASHINGTON (UPI) An angry Virginia Knauer told the soap industry today it was time for immediate action on a study of whether detergent enzymes cause allergies, skin irritations and lung ailments. Although public announcements did not say so, Nixon administration sources said Mrs. Knauer the President's consumer adviser and other officials believe the detergent industry was trying to stall the study and get out of an earlier offer to support it financially.

Mate 1 i lit "hardest to whip into line" of all Hammond polluters. Part of the problem, Commonwealth officials said, is the acquisition of low-sulphur coal The company said it expects to replace 500,000 tons of coal with gas at State Line during 1970. In addition, 60,000 tons of low-sulphur coal were purchased from western Kentucky and 10,000 tons from New Mexico. Nixon Lists Tour Stops WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon, who leaves Sunday for a nine-day trip to five European countries, will meet in Ireland with U.S. representatives to the Paris peace talks.

The White House announced Thursday the President will discuss the Vietnam peace talks with chief negotiator David K. E. Bruce at Kilfrush House, 12 miles west of Tiperrary. Mrs. Nixon will accompany the President through most of the trip, but will stay in Rome Monday while be and Secretary of State William P.

Rogers visit ships of the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean. Mrs. Nixon plans to visit Boys Town in Rome and inspect an adult literacy program. She will rejoin her husband in Naples Wednesday where he will meet with NATO's southern European commanders. From Naples, the Nixons will fly to Belgrade the first visit by an American president to communist Yugoslavia.

President Tito will host the Nixons at a black-tie dinner and a reception. The Nixons plan a formal dinner for Tito and his wife Thursday night. The presidential party will fly to Spain Oct. 2 where Nixon will be welcomed by Gen. Francisco Franco, his wife and high Spanish officials.

The Nixons will be entertained at a Continued on Back Page This Section I I NIXON'S TRIP SHANNON -v--f Vrti S. IL, 'i carrier Independence is on alert ARMY WILL CUT 45,000 WASHINGTON (AP) The Army will cut its troop strength by next June by 45,000 men to the lowest level in 10 years. Robert C. Moot, Defense Department controller, said three divisions will be dropped from combat forces by mid-1971, leaving Army strength at 1.2 miUion, a 12-month decrease of 125,000 men. Secretary of Defense Melvin R.

Laird has established a goal of 2.9 million men in uniform by next June. The armed forces now have slightly more than 3 million men, compared with the Vietnam War peak of 3.5 million in 1968. Nicosia Raps Transit Plan EAST CHICAGO Mayor JohnB. Nicosia remains strongly opposed to Hammond Mayor Joseph Klen'splanto form a North Township Transit Authority. Klen revealed a plan two weeks ago calling for participation of East Chicago, Hammond, Whiting, Highland, and Mun-ster in a transit authority to solve the Shore Line bus crisis.

Under Klen's plan, North Township residents would pay on assessed valuation to put the program in motion. East Chicago officials have made it clear that they favor a transit system in their city. Opposition stems from the assessed valuation approach under which East Chicago would pay 48 per cent of the bill. Nicosia also thinks that a "regional" transit system should include Griffith and Gary. Hammond, Whiting, Highland, and Munster Tuesday "jointly agreed" to absorb Shore Line's losses through the end of the year.

The agreement, plus a commitment to work toward forming an authority, caused American Transit Co. to lift an Oct. 1 deadline it set Monday for elimination of all local service. Hammond City Attorney John Lee-ney called for a meeting next week of city attorneys from the five communities to "establish the mechanics" of a long-range transit plan for the region. Makers Face Officials of the Soap and Detergent Association and of Procter Gamble, the largest maker of enzyme detergents, could not be reached for comment.

Mrs. Knauer acknowledged through an aide she was "dismayed" by industry moves. Another official active in the controversy said she was angry. An aide said Mrs. Knauer had received about 100 letters from housewives complaining about skin irritations allegedly caused by detergent enzymes.

De By JOHN HOPKINS Times Staff Writer CROWN POINT Mrs. Linda Darby was convicted Thursday of first degree murder in the March 3 slaying of her husband, Charles. The penalty can be life in prison, but Mrs. Darby won't be sentenced until Oct. 1, when a probation officer's report is returned to Lake Criminal Court.

Mrs. Darby, 27, and the mother of five children, had smiled through the last day of the trial. She almost managed not to cry when she heard the verdict. She began crying, bobbed her head just an inch, then took a breath and stared over the judge's head. The judge was Commissioner T.

Cleve Stenhouse. His voice, weak many times during the nine-day trial, was firm and clear as he read the document the jury foreman signed. The matron, Mrs. Joseph Smerdovac, covered her eyes with her fingers. She was just behind Linda, the young woman she had joked with and guided around like a chaperone would a teenager in the company of worldly men.

Tall, suntanned Chester Adams of Ashland, set his jaw as his daughter's lower lip began to turn down. He could not see her face. ONE OF HER lawyers, Nick Senak, noticed her and brought a chair in which she sat as Stenhouse deliberately signed the orders. Senak had asked for a poll of the Drug control bill passed by the House 18 A Region Youth pages back for HAMMOND The City of Chicago extended its reach to Commonwealth Edison's Hammond plant Thursday to test the "long-arm" provision of its air pollution law. A suit filed in Circuit Court, Chicago, seeks to halt pollution at the State Line Generating Plant 300 feet from the Chicago border.

The suit asked for a temporary injunction ordering Commonwealth Edison to close the plant. Commenwealth Edison allegedly is in violation of the Chicago limit of 1.8 per cent sulphur content for power plants. Chicago has the authority, under Illinois Municipal Code, to enforce air pollution laws beyond city boundaries. Commonwealth Edison in July announced a program to "cut sulphur emissions in half during the next 12 months." The Chicago -based Campaign Against Pollution organization charged East Getting NIPSCO Aid HAMMOND Northern Indiana Public Service Co. has been indirectly supplying power to the East during a three-day electrical crisis there.

Under a long-standing contract with Commonwealth Edison NIPSCO has been selling the neighboring utility up to 250 megawatts an hour of its excess generating capacity and reserve energy. NIPSCO, however, sends the power Related Story, Page 18 A directly to the Eastern utilities through long-distance transmission lines. The power-lend began Tuesday when a heat wave drained Eastern power, causing widespread "brownouts" and selective blackouts. NIPSCO will still supplying some energy Thursday. Commonealth Edison was sending nearly 800 kilowatts an hour, including NIPSCO supplies.

A NIPSCO spokesman said if the power shortage had occurred here, Eastern utilities would have sent power this way. U.S. Probe tergent makers have said enzymes are harmless. They are used in detergents as catalysts to help break down some types of stains, including blood. Today's controversy marked the second federal action in three days regarding enzymes.

In an unrelated move Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accused Proctor St. Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Lever Bros, of falsely advertising that their enzyme detergents removed all stains from the State Line plant with burning coal averaging 3.5 per cent in sulphur content. Plant officials said the "total fuel being burned" at State Line has an average sulphur content of 1.8 per cent. A Hammond ordinance calls for lowering the amount of sulphur in fuel burned in Hammond to 1.5 per cent by 1975. Hammond Air Quality Chief William Harrigan has called State Line the More Water Mains OKd CALUMET CITY The City Council gave approval for city engineers to prepare and submit plans for a $650,000 water main expanion that may raise the water rate.

The expansion would include about three miles of new 12-inch pipe and a one-million-gallon elevated tank to be built in the northwest sector of Calumet City. The bulk of the new pipe would run east and west along Pulaski Road and north and south along Paxton Street with smaller amounts of pipe being installed along State Street, River Oaks Drive and Torrence Avenue. Mayor Joseph W. Nowak said the proposed expansion would allow the city to supply water to the western sector of the city in the event of a break along Sibley Boulevard. Under existing conditions, if a break occurred in the main along Sibley Boulevard the entire western sector would be without water.

Nowak also said the fire chief had long been concerned about low water pressure in the northwest industrial part of the city. The expansion would raise the pressure by the use of the one-million-gallon elevated water tank to be constructed on Dolton Avenue. The project would be financed by the sale of bonds and a possible hike in water rates. NIXON FOES BURN CARS ROME (AP) Thirteen autos with U.S. license plates were set afire on the streets of Rome during the night as leftists prepared protests for President Nixon's visit here next week.

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