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WelMle Reporter Serving Allegany, Potter Counties Ninety-Second Year Wellsville, New York, Thursday Afternoon, July 6, 1972 10 Gents Per Copy Bail set for man attempting hijack BUFFALO (AP) man accused of attempting to hijack a parked jet by holding his baby daughter at knifepoint faced additional charges today and remained jailed in lieu of $250,000 bail. The mental competency of the accused man, Charles Smith, developed into a legal issue Wednesday following his surrender at the Greater Buffalo International Airport. Police charged that Smith, 23, of Buffalo, went to the home of his ex-wife, Ethel, before dawn Wednesday and stabbed her and a man there, Dennis Keeys, 23. He then allegedly abducted his 13-month-old daughter, Jetuan, and proceeded to the Buffalo airport in nearby Cheektowaga. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents said Smith, armed with a four-inch switchblade, made his way onto an empty American Airlines jet.

Fore more than two hours, he held authorities at bay, the FBI said, while asking for a pilot to take him "out of the country." Finally, the bureau said, after bullhorn coaxing by agents, Smith's mother and a minister, Smith threw down his knife and walked down from the plane with the unharmed girl. Smith was immediately taken to FBI headquarters in Buffalo and interrogated for about two hours. He was then brought before U.S. Magistrate Edmund F. Maxwell and arraigned on a federal charge of attempted air piracy.

The bearded medium build and wearing a bloodstained straight ahead during the arraignment session. When Maxwell asked him if he understood the proceedings, he replied, "I believe I do." Smith's court-assigned lawyer, R. William Stephens, requested Maxwell to set a hearing to determine whether Smith was mentally competent. Stephens said his conversation with the defendant indicated he was "very, very agitated." The lawyer added that some FBI men described Smith's actions as "almost berserk." But Maxwell denied the request for a mental competency hearing, telling Stephens he should file such a motion with a federal judge. He then set bail for Smith at $200,000, the figure recommended by a prosecution attorney.

Later, Buffalo police charged Smith with two counts of first- degree assault, one count of kidnaping and one burglary count in connection with events at Mrs. Smith's apartment. Arraigned again, this time before City Court Judge Joseph J. Sedita, Smith had his bail requirement increased by $50,000. A preliminary hearing on the federal charge was set for July 14.

The state charges await further court action Monday. Protestants press demand in Ireland By COLIN FROST Associated Press Writer BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) Militant Protestants today were demanding another concession from the British government in exchange for two weeks of cooperation in the cease-fire in Northern Ireland. The paramilitary Ulster Defense Association said it would barricade another Protestant section this weekend but after that would "grant 14 days of peace and grace" to allow British forces "to deal with the deteriorating position." Britain's administrator for Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, had warned that no more such no-go areas would be tolerated. The UDA in effect was telling him he had to back down or face the possibility of an armed challenge to the army. The UDA, which claims it can bring thousands of armed fighters into the streets, also said that during their two-week "peace and grace" period, their men would be "standing in full strength to protect any area" during the processions July 12 of the Protestant Orange Order.

This was a warning to both the British and the Roman Catholics not to interfere with the parades, which the Catholic minority regards as a provocative demonstration of Protestant domination in Northern Ireland. Both Protestant and Catholic marches have frequently touched off communal fighting in the past three years of violence. The UDA last weekend barricaded five Protestant areas to protest Whitelaw's refusal to interfere with Catholic-only enclaves policed by gunmen of the Irish Republican Army. Later the UDA let the army take over the barricades in one sector but maintained unarmed patrols behind them. While the IRA generally continued to observe the cease-fire that the guerrilla command declared last week, a wave of sectarian attacks continued.

Wednesday night a man was shot in the thighs in a Catholic district of Belfast and another was shot in the shoulder in another Catholic section. A volley also was fired at an army patrol, but nobody was hit, and the troops didn't return the fire. Eight men were murdered over the weekend two Protestants, five Catholics and a young Jehovah's Witness visiting from England. Two more Protestant brothers, 19 and 20 years old, were slain Wednesday, and their bodies were left in a country lane. There were reports that the youths had Catholic friends and one of them had a Catholic girl friend.

NATO to meet on offers by Soviets By CARL HARTMAN Associated Press Writer BRUSSELS (AP) David M. Kennedy, President Nixon's ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, says the United States will try to keep West European countries from accepting Soviet offers of economic "pie in the sky" that might endanger Atlantic security. The scene of such offers, he predicted, will be the projected European conference on security and cooperation in Europe. Ambassadors from 34 countries will probably get together in Helsinki late in November to make plans for the opening of the conference next year. Kennedy said in an interview that some Western countries did not name them might be tempted by Soviet promises of increased trade.

He added that a great deal of effort is being concentrated within NATO on preparations for the conference. The whole idea of such a meeting was long resisted by. the U.S. government and some of its allies on the ground that it would be largely a propaganda opportunity for the Soviets. A former secretary of the Treasury, Kennedy complained that economic considerations have not always had the weight he thinks they should get in formulating U.S.

world policy. "We are holding a costly umbrella over the world," he said, "not only nuclear, but naval and military." But Kennedy added that U.S. military strength cannot be determined by financial considerations, important though they are. And he said he has no plans to ask other countries to take on a larger share of the U.S. defense burden.

Kennedy wears three hats as presidential envoy in Brussels. Two Democratic groups to appeal ruling on Credential Committee DISASTER RELIEF County and city officials from Allegany, Cattaraugus and Wyoming counties met at the Belmont Central School from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday to be briefed on various disaster relief programs available to municipalities. Raymond Barbuti (standing on stage) chaired the meeting.

(See story inside) (Reporter Photo) 3 indicted as result of NYC investigation NEW YORK (AP) The first indictment in a 15-month federal-city probe of official corruption accuses a police detective, a lawyer and a private investigator of paying $2,850 for secret data in two federal cases. The alleged conspiracy to obstruct justice was uncovered by another detective, Robert Leuci, who posed as a crooked cop able to get the secret files from the U.S. attorney's office in return for the bribe. Indicted and arrested Wednesday were detective Nicholas Lamattina, 39, attorney Edmund Rosner, 36, and bail bond investigator Nicholas DeStefano, 38. Each was released on $15,000 bond after pleading innocent in U.S.

District Court to charges of obstructing justice, unlawfully obtaining documents, bribery and conspiracy. The indictment was announced by U.S. Atty. Whitney North Seymour head of the corruption probe, and Police Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy.

It gave this account of the case: Lamattina, who knew Leuci as a fellow detective, in- troduced him to the two other defendants as "a person who could be trusted." Acting under instructions from the prosecutors, Leuci told the defendants he knew an investigator in Seymour's office who would be willing to provide confidential files in exchange for payoffs. Rosner and DeStefano then asked Leuci to obtain specific grand jury testimony in a pending case, additional statements by prosecution witnesses and the draft copy of an indictment that had not been filed. Last October, the defendants made five cash payments, ranging from $100 to $1,500, to Leuci, who delivered the requested documents, with the cooperation of Seymour's office. The draft copy of the indictment obtained by the defendants charged a bail bondsman, Dominick. J.

Marcone, of successfully fixing a narcotics case against an arrested suspect in exchange for $120,000. Other documents delivered by Leuci concerned charges that Rosner, DeStefano and two associates obtained a false alibi for a narcotics defendant named Pedro Hernandez. The charges of conspiracy to commit perjury were dropped last January after Hernandez disappeared. Since then, he has been recaptured and federal prosecutors have moved to reinstitute the conspiracy charges. In announcing the indictment, Seymour said the Knapp Commission had let the federal government make use of Leuci "instead of prematurely using him as a witness" in its own hearings on police corruption.

Seymour also repeated his complaint that "premature disclosures" by the New York Times and the Daily ad betrayed the secrecy of his probe and "brought those investigations to an abrupt halt." "There will be some indictments but nothing on the scale of what was possible," the prosecutor said last month. The reports said the probe had implicated judges, lawyers and assistant district attorneys and high police officials, and Leuci's undercover role was revealed. The newspapers said they published the stories in the public interest. WASHINGTON (AP) Democratic party forces are seeking a rare special session of the Supreme Court to determine which presidential candidate gets the California delegates George McGovern thought he had locked up. The appeals to be filed today would go first to Chief Justice Warren E.

Burger who would decide whether to call the justices back from vacation. The arguments revolve around constitutional guarantees of due process and the extent to which federal courts may inject themselves into partisan political processes. Two groups are appealing a U.S. Court of Appeals decision Wednesday which reversed the party's Credentials Committee in the California case, but upheld it in the Illinois case. First is the party hierarchy which defends the committee as the proper body for deciding such matters and wants the high court to declare the selection of convention delegates off- limits to the federal courts.

On the other hand, forces loy-, al to Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley argue that the courts should upset the committee once more and restore convention seats to Daley and 58 allies. The Court of Appeals stored to McGovern the full 271- vote California reversing the committee's vote to take more than half the number from him and apportion them to other primary candidates, chiefly Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey.

The court suspended the effect of its rulings until 2 p.m. today to give the high court time to act if it wishes. The Supreme Court has held only three special sessions in its history. "We feel this case is as compelling and more compelling" than those which prompted the other sessions, said Democratic National Committee counsel Joseph A. Califano in Miami Beach.

"The courts should not get involved in selecting delegates." McGovern forces announced Wednesday afternoon that the appeals-court action gave their candidate more than the 1,509 delegate votes needed for nomination. The Associated Press delegate count, which does not list officially uncommitted delegates who are leaning toward a candidate, showed McGovern with 1,436.65 votes. But Humphrey was in no mood to concede. He noted that the Supreme Court had not yet re- spoken, and argued further that the party itself would be the ultimate judge. Humphrey conceded that it would be "quite a hassle" if the convention ignores the court, but said he felt it has the right to do so.

The appeals court based its intervention on the conclusion that the party had ignored its own rules to the point where constitutional guarantees due process were violated. California law awarded all the delegates to the winner. The 2-1 decision overturned a U.S. District Court which ruled Monday that the judiciary has no jurisdiction in partisan processes unless a clear constitutional priinciple is involved, The lower court found no constitutional question in that case. In the Illinois case, the appeals court was unanimous in finding that the party could reject Illinois delegates on grounds the selection did not conform to party rules.

The 59 uncommitted Illinois delegates, led by Daley, were challenged on grounds they were chosen in a closed slate- making process and that they underrepresented women, minorities and young people. Flood relief hampered by slashing of budge Bloody shelling of bridge witnessed by AP reporter By HOLGER JENSEN Associated Press Writer ON THE ROAD TO QUANG TRI, Vietnam (AP) North Vietnamese gunners waited until the last pontoon was in place before shelling the bridge four miles southeast of Quang Tri City. A T54 tank and 130mm gun sent round after round screaming out of their camouflaged position near the Catholic church at La Vang. Engineers, soldiers and bulldozers fled from the bridge site as the shells landed in a group of refugees huddled on the north bank of the river. One shell hit a house and it burst into flames.

A small boy ran across the pontoon bridge, his face glazed with shock, a bloody stump where his right hand had been. He led a stampede of refugees, many of them wounded. Shells kept hitting both banks of the river and landed in the water, but all missed the bridge. A French photographer, Raymond Thomann, was wounded by shell fragments in the hand and leg. A woman ran past him clutching a baby.

Both were soaked in blood. Bringing up the rear was an armless, war veteran with a gaping leg wound that exposed the bone. About half a mile from the bridge, Maj. Le Van Me and his adviser, Capt. Gail Furrow, directed U.S.

bombing strikes on the enemy firing sites. "They've the camouflage away Now they've damaged the gun," said Furrow, 32, of Urbana, Ohio. He listened again to his radio. "They've knocked out the tank, too." A few hours later, Furrow and Maj. Me moved out at the head of a task force heading for Quang Tri.

Me carried a bottle of champagne to be drunk when the provincial capital was recaptured. They passed destroyed South Vietnamese tanks, abandoned artillery pieces and bullet-riddled buses reeking of death. Soon lead troops on the western flank began taking mortar and small arms fire. A sharp firefight erupted, and a North Viet- namese prisoner was taken. "The POW says there is one company of North Vietnamese dug in bunkers, but he says they have called for two more companies of reinforcements," said Maj.

Me. Throughout the night, 2,000 artillery shells whistled over the task force bivouac, landing only 400 yards ahead of Me's sleeping mat. A North Vietnamese tank several 105mm howitzers they had captured tried to return the fire but were soon silenced. Spassky receives apology from Bob REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer made a full and penitent apology to Boris Spassky today, and organizers of the world chess championship match said the two would meet for their first game Sunday night. The organizers said it had been agreed in principle to hold the drawing tonight to determine which player would have the white pieces and with them the first move.

The young American, in a letter delivered by hand this morning to the world chess champion from the Soviet Union, apologized for his "disrespectful behavior." Fischer, whose delayed arrival doubled the prize money for both him and Spassky but also started an avalanche of confusion, asked the Russian to "accept my sincerest apology." "I simply became carried away by my petty dispute over money with the Icelandic chess organizers," he wrote. The written apology from the American challenger was one of the chief conditions posed by the Russians before Spassky would sit down at the chess board with Fischer. 3 Fischer told Spassky: "1 have offended you and your country, the Soviet Union, where chess has a prestigious position." The temperamental American also apologized to Dr. Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation, the Icelanders, "the thousands of fans around the world and especially to the millions of fans and the many friends I have in the United States." However, Fischer brushed aside a demand from the Soviet Chess Federation that he forfeit the first match because of his tardy arrival. He said this "would place me at a trmendous handicap" and he didn't believe the "world's champion desires such an advantage in order to play me." ALBANY, N.Y.

(AP) Transportation Commissioner T. W. Parker noted pointedly at a briefing on flood relief efforts Wednesday that because of budget cuts only seven professionals in the relief field were left in state employment when the June floods hit southwestern New York. Gov. Nelson A.

Rockefeller admitted afterwards that "perhaps we went too far" when the Civil Defense Department was abolished and its functions placed in smaller form under the Transportation Department. "We should come back to an intelligently planned level," the governor added. At the briefing, Parker and other officials reviewed the progress of relief efforts and said that problems of coordination and communication between various local, county, state and federal officials are still prevalent. One Transportation Department official, William Hennessy, said that tension has grown among flood victims crowded together in improvised facilities and that local officials fear for the victims' safety when the National Guard is withdrawn next week. Hennessy also said stabbings and rapes had occurred in the refugee facilities.

Local authorities disputed his statement, and later Hennessy himself flatly denied having made it. "No, I don't know of any stabbings and rapes," he declared. "If it came out that way, I'm sorry." Hennessey said the nerves of the 3,000 victims staying in mass housing facilities are getting frayed and that he was trying to convey the tone of life in the refugee centers. At the briefing for Rockefeller and newsmen, Parker reported this situation in the stricken areas: Elmira, 100 to 200 homes have been lost; 5,000 have been damaged so severely that repair is questionable. Some 20,000 persons are still getting meals at mass feedings every day because utilities have not been repaired in their homes.

service is being restored, with about 37,000 of 50,000 units originally out of order now working. But this in itself has created problems because circuits are being overloaded. care programs have been established for children. officials are working to bring in mobileo homes to house the victims, but the ef- forts are being delayed by such problems as the selection of sites. Red Cross is directing food and clothing efforts and doing "a magnificent job." Rockefeller called the briefing before attending a meeting of the state Republican Committee to select delegates to the Republican National Convention.

In another development Wednesday, the Transportation Department announced that Arnold W. Grushky had been appointed deputy director of its Office of Natural Diaster and Civil Defense, which is coordinating state relief operations. Grushky succeeds Raymond J. Barbuti, who retired last week but will serve for an additional month to help coordinate flood relief. Rep.

Henry P. Smith III, R- N.Y., asked the federal government to declare three more Orleans and disaster areas eligible for relief funds. Heavy rains had caused irreparable damage to crops in the area, he said. The New York State Farm Bureau announced that it planned to take a busload of legislators, congressmen and other officials, including state Agriculture Commissioner Donald Wickham, on a tour Friday of the flood-devastated area for an on-the-scene look at the damage to agriculture. The federal Department of Agriculture said it had provided emergency food stamps worth $568,610 to 23,998 flood victims in 6,702 households in the state, as well as shipping 405 tons of food.

Soft lens held dangerous By JOHN LENGEL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The soft contact lens should be pulled off the market until it can be tested more thoroughly by impartial scientists, a health researcher told a Senate subcommittee today. Dr. Sidney Wolfe said the product has been rushed onto the market without adequate testing of its safety and effectiveness. He accused some evaluators of "apparent conflict of interest" by holding stock in the companies manufacturing the products they were testing. Wolfe is associated with the Health Research Group, a branch of Ralph Nader's consumer-advocacy organization, and formerly worked for the National Institute of Health.

Testimony about the soft lens was prepared for a hearing before the Senate Small Business subcommittee on government regulations. The Food and Drug Administration so far has approved for sale only the soft lens produced by Bausch Lomb, but several other companies are moving into the field. Roughly 50,000 pairs of the lenses have been sold since the FDA approved them March 18, 1971. Buoyed by FDA approval, Bausch Lomb's stock zoomed in one period from $46 a share to $160. FDA Commissioner Dr.

Charles Edwards told the subcommittee that during the two years of FDA evaluation, "our staff was continually confronted with the test of weighting the many advantages and disadvantages of this type of lens against its usefulness, which is limited at this time." He continued, "Despite certain potential risks in use, the maintenance involved, and other disadvantages, we see in this type of product a potential for development for broader use in ophthalmology." Regional Forecast Sunny intervals this afternoon. High about 75. Mainly clear and cool tonight. Low 45 to 50. Friday mostly sunny and high 75 to 80.

Variable winds under ten. HIGH 72, LOW 49 Local Report The high for the 24-hour period which ended at noon today was 72 at noon, while the low was 49 at 3 and 6 a.m. today. There was .15 inches of rain recorded during the 24-hour period which ended at 8:30 a.m. The barometer reading at noon was 30.33 inches and steady.

The temperatures: Yesterday: noon 63,3 p.m. 67, 6p.m. 56,9 p.m. 52, midnight 50. Today: 3a.m.

49, 6a.m. 49,9 a.m. 54, noon.