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i Flee Prison, Wild Chase Ensues NASHVILLE. Tenn. (AP) air, land and I water chase for six state convicts using a runaway prison bus to flee officers has left one fugitive dead and the other five recaptured. The bizarre escape, which began at a prison picnic area and wound up on the banks of the muddy Cumberland River, had law enforcement officials scurrying about in speedboats, a helicopter and numerous patrol cars for more than three. hours.

"I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like what happened today (Thursday)." said Tennessee State Prison Warden Jim Rose, a veteran prison administrator. "It was really unusual, but something like this can be expected when you have 1,800 men." The escape took place in a wide open expanse. of land which had authorities confusingly spreading out in every direction. At times they were forced to reverse their course Plea For Dixie Voiced In Miami (Continued from Page One) said. The reference was to the party's Regulars.

Seniority Issue Watkins was behind a successful move to tack a plank onto the party's platform calling on Congress to lift the seniority privileges of members of Congress who do not overtly identify with the recognized state party. "The new plank might be enough pressure to pull some in," Watkins said. "I don't know whether (U.S. Sen.) Jim Eastland can do it, but I think (U.S. Sen.

John) Stennis and (U.S. Rep. Jamie) Whitten might." All three have been identified with the Regulars. One Mississippi delegate, Favette Mayor Charles Evers, said he was dissatisfied with the McGovern nomination and indicated unless some demands are met, he will not actively support the ticket. Evers was behind a weeklong effort to channel black votes to the presidential candidacy of U.S.

Rep. Shirley Chisholm, Today In World History By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Today is Friday, July 14th, the 196th day of 1972. There are 170 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On this date in 1789, the citizens of Paris stormed and captured Bastille prison. It was the beginning of the French Revolution.

On this date: In 1690, seven French privateers captured the New England islands of Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and Block Island. In 1798, the U.S. Congress passed a sedition act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous and malicious 1 reports about the government. In 1853, U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry went ashore at Tokyo to present a letter from President Millard Fillmore to the Emperor of Japan.

In 1879, the U.S. Congress provided a yearly pension of $3,000 for President Abraham Lincoln's widow, Mary Todd Lincoln. In 1965, Ambassador Adlai Stevenson died on a London street of a heart attack. In 1966, eight student nurses were found murdered in an apartment on Chicago's South Side. Ten years ago: President Kennedy named Cleveland Mayor Anthony Celebrezze as secretary of Welfare to succeed Abraham Ribicoff, who resigned to run for the Senate.

Five years ago: Eleven deaths were counted in riots in Newark, N.J.; a curfew was imposed on the city. One year ago: A U.S. Air Force officer, Capt. Thomas Culver, was reprimanded and fined $1,000 for an antiwar demonstration in London. Today's birthdays: Congressman Gerald Ford of Michigan is 59 years old.

Novelist Irving Stone is 69. Thought for today: The best letters of our time are those that can never be publishedBritish novelist Virginia Woolf BUY-SEL-RENT-HIRE. DO IT BETTER of pursuit -baffled by the rapid movement of the convicts who had fanned out along the river banks and dense trees. When it was all over, the prison garb of one escapee was found dangling from a treetop, the fugitives and several officials had trudged knee-deep in mud, and one inmate was recaptured with nothing but his underwear on. Six Identified The six convicts were identified as Ronnie S.

Kimbrell, 23, of Fort Pierce, who drowned; Charles Davis, 20, of Scottsboro, Ronnie W. Franklin, 25, Nashville; Eddie Warfield, 18, Clarksville; Clyde E. Tripplett, 27, Memphis; and James W. Thompson 26, Nashville. The six escaped while riding a prison bus with 36 other inmates and three armed guards.

The bus had picked up the inmates, members of a prison farm work detail, and was transporting them to a picnic ground about two west of the main penitentiary grounds i in Nashville. "I opened the door of the bus and let the three shotgun guards out," said guard-driver Jimmy Fox. Moments later he freed the inmates from behind a screened gate inside the bus. "That was when two of the prisoners came up to me with homemade knives," Fox said. of them put his knife to my side and the other shouted to the guards to bring them their shotguns." "Don't over a damn thing to them." Fox said he yelled to the three guards, who had just stepped off the bus.

Bus Freed One of the six convicts then released the vehicle's emergency brake and the bus rolled without a driver toward the river-about a half mile away from the picnic area. The bus eased to a stop, about 200 yards from the river, and the six convicts fled-leaving Fox unharmed inside the bus. Immediately, Nashville policemen, prisons guards and Civil Defense workers-25 -were dispatched and recovered the body of the sixth. Rose gave this account of the capture: All six escapees ran toward the river from the bus--three of them leaping into the water and the other three fanning out along the banks. The river is about 350 feet wide.

Prison guards fired warning shots, but at no time aimed their fire at the escapees. As the three swimming escapees Kimbrell approached mid went under and efforts by Davis and Franklin to save him were futile. Davis and Franklin, exhausted by their swim, turned around and swam Fischer Appeal Turned Down REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) An appeals, committee rejected today Fischer's against his loss of Thursday's world championship chess game by forfeit. The four-man committee supported the decision of chief referee Lothar Schmid to award the game to Boris Spassky because Fischer failed to appear. The decision left Fischer two games down in a 24-game match where Fischer needs the equivalent of 12 victories and a draw to take Spassky's title.

Deaths Funeral services for Mr. Van Wells, 72, of Jonestown, who died Tuesday morning after a brief illness. will be held Sunday at the St. John Church, Coahoma. Miss.

at 2 p.m. Mr. Wells leaves a wife Mrs. Effie Lee Wells, and three brothers. Burial will be at the Coahoma Cemetery, Coahoma, with the Delta Burial Corporation in charge of arrangements.

Funeral services for Mrs. Sadie Robinson of 1311 West Tallahatchie Avenue were held today at 2 p.m. at Haven United Methodist Church with the burial service following in the Heavenly Rest Cemetery with the Stringer Funeral Home in charge. Mrs. Robinson, 64, was found dead at her home Wednesday.

She is survived by four sisters; Mrs. Gladys Davis of East St. Louis, Mrs. Ethel Chatman and Mrs. Myrtis Easley of Houston, Texas, and Mrs.

Lula Bell Roy of Shaw, Miss. She leaves one brother, Joe Miller of Los Angeles. Into the arms of wading mud- covered policemen. Others Caught Meanwhile, about 200 yards upriver, Tripplett was recaptured in a muddy chase that soaked him and several policemen. The other two men-Warfield and Thompson-had fled about 300 yards downriver and were waist-deep in mud in a marshland.

Thompson had abandoned everything but his undershorts and tee-shirt when recaptured. His clothes later were in a treetop. The five were herded back to prison grounds in police cars. About 30 minutes later, rescue officials discovered Kimbrell's body in the river. All five were placed in maximum security, Rose said, and will be charged with attempted escape.

Earlier Incident Several hours prior to the escape, a prison inmate, James W. Lewis, 24, of Nashville, had escaped in a prison van after persuading a trusty to give him the ignition keys. Lewis was last seen driving the van in Nashville. He was convicted in the 1965 slaying of a taxicab driver and had been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. Sentences for the five men recaptured in the afternoon escape are: Davis, sentenced in Bradley County to 5 years for robbery; Franklin, 1-3 years for concealing stolen property; Warfield.

20 years for armed robbery; Tripplett, life term for murder; Thompson, 7 years for auto theft and crime against nature: and Kimbrell. the drowning victim, 12 years for burglary. Hijackers Surrender In Texas LAKE JACKSON, Tex. (AP) -Two armed men, commandered a jetliner and took it on a 21-hour journey surrendered quietly to an FBI agent after forcing the plane to land at a tiny private airfield. Held on $1-million bonds on air piracy charges in Houston were Michael Stanley Green, 34, of Washington, D.C.; and Luseged Tesfa, 22, a native of Ethiopia who was believed staying with Green.

The two walked down the rear ramp stairway of the liner at 4 p.m. C.D.T.. almost eight hours after it first touched down on the small airstrip owned by Dow Chemical Co. in this town 50 miles south of Houston. In a second hijacking case, a man identified as Melvin M.

Fisher, 49, of Norman, surrendered Wednesday night to a stewardess after a hijacker armed with a pistol command- eered an American Airlines 727 jet during a flight from Oklahoma City to Dallas. The hijacker had demanded and received $200,000. Fisher, charged with air piracy, was held in lieu of $100,000 bond. The first hijacking began Wednesday night when a National Airlines Boeing 727 with 113 passengers aboard was taken over during a flight from Philadelphia to New York. The passengers were allowed to leave when the three-engine jet returned to Philadelphia.

The hijackers had demanded about $600,000 and 20,000 Mexi1-worth two parachutes. Authorities said the ransom demands were met in Philadelphia when the hijackers swapped planes, but they would not disclose the exact amount. Court Action Light So Far Although five cases were set for trial during this opening week of circuit court, three of the cases were settled, one was continued and another was removed to chancery court. Attorneys reached a settlement in the Everett Youngblood versus Larkin Reid, Mrs. Merle Manning versus Marshall Thompson and Clarksdale King and Anderson versus Ben Crawford cases.

On the motion of the defendant, the case of Clarence R. Williams versus MasseyFerguson was remanded to chancery court. One case, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth McBride versus M. P.

Powell, was continued until a later date in the term. Page 8 The Clarksdale Press Register Friday Afternoon, July 14, 1972 reserved. rights World '7261 Syndicate, Features Vies 7-14 King WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'M PARANOID? YOU'RE TRYING TO DESTROY ME, THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO Skylab Rocket Completed NEW ORLEANS (AP) The 14-story booster rocket which is slated to be used to kick the proposed Skylab into orbit is scheduled to be rolled out this morning at the Michand space facility here. Louisiana Rep. F.

Edward Hebert is slated to be the principal speaker at ceremonies conected with the delivery of the rocket to the National Ae- AEC Suspends Its Director Of Security WASHINGTON (AP) The Atomic Energy Commission disclosed today that William T. Riley, its director of security, has been "placed on leave without pay, pending resolution of some allegations concerning his personal financial affairs." An AEC spokesman said the allegations "relate to the borrowing of money from other AEC employes and his are that it's in excess of $100.000." Riley's job paid 000 a year and he's had it since November 1967. The spokesman said Riley was placed on leave June 14, and has been replaced by Paul Gaughren, 57, a former deputy director of the division of security, during investigation of the allegations by the commission's division of inspection. Riley, 52, joined the AEC in 1947 at Los Alamos, N.M., as a security and intelligence officer and rose through various to become director of security in 1967. As chief of security, he has been responsible for the physical security of all the diverse installations of the AEC's farflung empire, stretching from Washington, D.C.

ot Eniwetok and from Brookhavn, N.Y. to the Aleutian Islands. The job also includes responsibility for "personnel security," including clearances of prospective employes and protection against sabotage, the AEC spokesman said in answer to questions. But the spokesman volunteered the comment that "there is no indication that any security matters are involved" in the current situation involving the security chief. Asked why the matter had not been made public before, the spokesman said: "We were trying to await completion of the investigation." ronautics and Space tration.

The rocket, completed three years ago and recently modified to suit it for the Skylab project, is 138 feet tall, 33 feet in diameter and has a dry weight of about 300,000 pounds. It is scheduled to be barged next week to the NASA launching facility from which the Skylab project will boosted into space. A sister rocket of the booster which will be rolled out today is presently at the Cape Kennedy pad waiting to be used in the final moon trip scheduled for December. The major modification of the Skylab rocket was a change in the shut-down sequence of the engines. Delicate instruments aboard the orbiting laboratory make a more gradual shutdown of the engines desirable, so the modifications were made.

ETV Hires Consultant On Finances JACKSON, Miss. (AP) The Mississippi Educational Television Authority said today it has retained the services of a veteran state official as consultant for fiscal affairs. William Smith, ETV director, said Earl Evans Jr. of Canton, a former state senator who has served as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, had been retained by the authority to offer recommendations for budgeting. Smith said the authority was in the process of "trying to put together the budget for the next fisral year" and that Evans had already "made several suggestions and we are trying to implment them." ETV drew criticism from the 1972 state legislature with some lawmakers accusing the agency of excessive spending.

Smith said the authority wanted to insure the funds were spent "wisely as possible" and that Evans would "help us make sure that we engage in the wise use of state The legislature cut back ETV's requested funding for the current fiscal year and several employes were reportedly dismissed for lack of sufficient money. Evans, one-time president pro tempore of the Senate, has served as director of the State Budget Commission and was the first director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division. Plea For Party Harmony Ends Democratic Convention (Continued from Page One) carry "a new message of hope to the American people" in the campaign ahead. Pledges And in what seems likely to be his line of attack against the man he hopes to displace, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, Eagleton pledged to "restore the dignity" of the vice presidency as an office "whose occupant must appeal to the highest, not the basest, motives of our fellow Americans." Then came Kennedy, last man of the family which has seen two other sons fall before assassins, declaring the party "has met the test of greatness" by nominating McGovern and Eagleton.

The thunderous reception accorded Kennedy, who sat out the convention at his Hyannis Port, home, rivaled that given McGovern, whose candidacy fell heir to much of the support of Kennedy's slain brother, Robert. Then, as the convention band blared the strains of "Happy Days are Here Again" and "When the Saints Go Marching In." McGovern came forth, followed by the rivals who had earlier pledged to back his effort this fall. Frequent Applause Often as he spoke, his supporters erupted in applause as he pledged an end to the Vietnam war, as he pledged before all else that "the doors of gov- Governor's Mansion Set For Remodeling JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Preliminary architects' plans for restoring Mississippi's preCivil War governor's mansion have been stamped with approval by the State Building Commission. The plans, already okayed by the state Department of Archives and History, now await finalization by architects and funding by the commission from its $9 million budget for the upcoming year.

One commission member, state Rep. George Payne Cossar of Charleston, said the panel was visiting all state institutions "to see how we're going to cut up this watermelon." No estimate of cost was given at Thursday's commission meeting, but members said "legislative was to spend up to about $1.5 million. Architect Ed Lewis of Jacksaid he felt renovations could be completed before Gov. Bill Waller's current term expires in 1975. The white columned mansion now sits vacant on Jackson's main downtown street, three blocks from the state Capitol.

Former Gov. John Bell Williams moved his family out of the building a year ago, and Taxpayers Cheated, Says Proxmire WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. William Proxmire, accused the Defense Department today of letting the taxpayer be "played for a sucker" by allowing Sperry Rand Corp. to reap a 34.000 per cent return on a $50.000 investment. The contract involves the company's production of 155 mm artillery shell casingsbrass-colored portion--at its Louisiana Army ammunition Plant.

Shreveport, La. The $71-million plant was built with taxpayer money but Sperry Rand invested only 000, said Proxmire, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee. In the 20-year span from 1951 to 1971, Sperry Rand made $17 million profit, maintained Proxmire. According to a General Accounting Office investigation, Proxmire said, Sperry Rand produced each casing at a claimed cost of $29.36 under a cost-plus contract. When the contract was put up for competitive bidding in 1971, Sperry Rand bid $6.49 below it's original claimed cost, a reduction of 22 per cent, to win the contract; again.

"Although the Army has made some attempts to clean up this mess." Proxmire said in a statement, "it has not gone far enough." In the past, Proxmire ued, Sperry Rand made "exhorbitant profits by misrepresenting its costs. Now, it can continue to make large profits by using free government facilities, materials, and operating capital under a new contract." What is needed is "some competition and free enterprise" in defense procurement, said Proxmire, adding: "Any taxpayer would be overjoyed to make $17 million on a $50,000 investment, which is 340 times the investment or a 34,000 per cent return. Even on an annual basis it is a 17-fold or 1,700 per cent return on investment." But, said Proxmire, "since the taxpayer is paying for this instead of getting it, he is being played strictly for a sucker. Phenomenal profits are easy to come by when the American taxpayers give a company a $71-million plant." Sperry Rand said in a statement that Proximire's conclusions "are not supported by the General Accounting Office report on which he bases his charges." The corporation said that during the 20 years it has managed the plant its compensation totaled 2.6 per cent of the firm's costs of performing the work. It said the 2.6 per cent a gross figure, did not include taxes and other expenses.

"The senator," the company said, "has accused Sperry Rand of profiting by misrepresenting its costs, despite the fact that the GAO report contained no such finding. "Sperry Rand emphatically and specifically denies this allegation. Sperry Rand further categorically denies any allegation or implications of wrongdoing in this entire matter." "We think," the corporation added, "our compensation for managing this (plant) has been reasonable and proper." Waller, who took office in January, has leased a house in an exclusive northeast Jackson neighborhood. Williams Blast When Williams left the mansion, 'he blasted its condition. Architect Lewis said the former governor was probably accurate in statements about the building's structual deficiencies and fire hazards.

The front part of the two-story building dates from 1842, and an annex was added in 1908. Architects' plans, according to Lewis, would extend the rear of the building some 20 feet to provide expanded living quarters for the governor and his family. Lewis said the older section would be restored as closely as possible to its original design, while the interior of the annex would be gutted and rebuilt. The outside of the two-story building would remain virtually the same, except for the 20-foot addition to the rear. Lewis said workers might have to completely tear down and rebuild the 1908-vintage section, but he said replacing cornicework on the outside would probably make this too expensive.

Lewis said the 30-to-34 inch walls of the original mansion were bowed in some places, but that this problem was "not too bad for walls that New Plans The preliminary architects' plans, as shown to the commission, call for the older part of the mansion to be used for visitors, with three second-floor bedrooms in that section. In the existing annex and the proposed 20-foot extension, four bedrooms would be provided for the governor's family. These would be on the second floor, along with a small kitchen and dining room. The first floor of the rear sections would hold a conference room, an office for the governor's wife, and a large kitchen adjoining the state dining room. Twenty-five persons could be seated in the dining room, Lewis said.

Currently, the architect said, three rooms separate the kitchen from the state dining room. The rebuilt mansion would have three entrances: the front door for visitors, a side entrance for guests, and a rear door for the governor and his family. Other Plans Other plans call for a separate building in a rear corner of the block-square mansion lawn. This building would contain garbage facilities, a boiler room and parking spaces for automobiles. The boiler room is now situated in the mansion basement.

A laundry and other facilities, including a security office, would be in the basement, according to renovation plans. Lewis said historical research had been used to determine how the mansion looked originally. He said researchers are still questioning whether an existing circular stairway was originally rectangular in shape. The highly publicized marble and gold trimmings added to the mansion during the Ross Barnett administration, Lewis said, would probably be reused. But he said of former Gov.

Barnett's celebrated gold-plated bathroom, "I don't know whether those fixtures were gold or Calley's Father Dies In Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) William L. Calley Sr. died in a Veterans Administration hospital Thursday night, several hours after a 30-minute visit by his son, a key figure in the My Lai massacre. Malcolm Randall, hospital administrator, said the father of Lt.

William Calley died as a result of respiratory arrest, which stemmed from diabetic coma. He was admitted to the hospital for the fourth time June 13 and died at 11:20 p.m. Lt. Calley was released from house arrest at Fort Benning, Ga. PEOPLE LOVE Get Your BREADWINNER EQUITY STAMPS HENDERSON REXALL 270 Delta not, but they're very corroded." Lewis said his firm had "tried to provide a minimum facility in keeping with the quirements that were given us." He said the building was important historically, and that changes should be made carefully, with history in mind.

"We feel we have taken best advantage of the space that is he said. Video Bomb Unveiled By U.S. Navy SAIGON (AP) The U.S. Navy announced today the introduction of a new, one ton video bomb called "Fat Albert" into the air war against North Vietnam and termed it highly effective. The weapon is an improved version of the "Walleye" television bomb and has been in use for the past month, the Navy said.

Capt. Marland W. Towsend, commanding officer of carrier Kitty Hawk, said the first six Fat Alberts released scored direct hits against their targets and reduced the risk that American pilots would be hit by ground fire. Townsend said four bridges were downed and two 1 military supply buildings were destroyed by the bombs. "You can't beat 100 per cent." he said.

The Fat Albert, named by fliers aboard the Kitty Hawk, is twice as powerful as the Walleye and has a television camera in the nose to direct the bomb to the target. 270 Strikes The U.S. Command announced, meanwhile, that U.S. pilots carried out 270 tactical air strikes against targets inside North Vietnam Thursday. Radio Hanoi claimed that 14 U.S.

warplanes bombed a section of dikes in North Vietnam's Hai Hung Province on Tuesday and that a large number of Western newsmen saw it. The broadcast said the newsmen had been taken to the area near Hiep Ca and Nan Hung villages 1 to see damage allegedly done to dikes there by U.S. bombs two days earlier. In the ground war, more heavy fighting was reported today on South Vietnam's northern front, where 20,000 Saigon troops are on a drive to retake Quang Tri Province, which fell to the North Vietnamese May 1. Series Of Battles The Saigon command said its troops had not entered the Quang Tri City limits, but reported a series of battles ranging from two to miles northeast of the provincial capital.

Spokesmen said 114 North Vietnamese troops were killed. almost half of them by air and artillery strikes, and 41 weapons captured. Three South Vietnamese marines were reported killed and 14 wounded. A high-ranking South Vietnamese officer was killed and eight other men wounded when a South Vietnamese helicopter crashed southeast of Quang Tri City. ernment be opened, and that war will be closed." The Wallace supporters, centered in the delegations from Alabama, Texas, Florida and Michigan, sat silently through much of the speech.

They filed out quietly as McGovern's supporters stood and cheered, clapped and marched following his speech. The ovation that followed, surpassing his greeting, went on for minutes as the other top Democrats again faced the cheers of the crowd. Chants of "Let's go, George" filled the hall as the ic ticket, beaming and waving, stood before the crowd. Despite public avowals of confidence, some in the hall were unsure. Southern governors, such as Georgia's Jinny Carter and North Carolina's Robert W.

Scott, said they would have preferred a different ticket. But they pledged support. Question Mark A big question mark was Wallace, confined to a wheelchair since the May 15 attempted assassination in Laurel, Md. Most thought he would go back to Alabama and sit out the campaign. After returning to Washington today, McGovern flies to South Dakota on Saturday for two weeks of rest and strategy sessions in a secluded resort in the Black Hills, south of famed Mount Rushmore.

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