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Des Moines Register Pan a A Jim. 15, IW Zimbalist Aids Fund Drive URGE HIGHWAY Rights Unit: To Defend FBI, Hoover WORKERS STAY (T 4 2 Nixon Policy Is Too Soft By Jack Nelson and Bryce Nelson 1971 Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON, D.C. Actor Efrem Zimbalist, a Wash. Gus Lartius, president of the Organization of Highway Com' mission Employes, said Mon ington publicist and a Chicago attorney have launched a nationwide fund-soliciting campaign for an "educational" program to support the FBI and its embattled director, J. Edgar Hoover.

day he has asked Highway Commission employes to stay HOUSING- Continued from Page One names of defendants in these cases will not be released until il. l.li.. Zimbalist, the Inspector Er- skine of TV's "The FBI," by self-serving politicians, their supporting media and certain radical elements that ultimately seek the destruction of all law and order in the United States." Attached to the letter were: A page of excerpts of news articles containing both praise and criticism of Hoover and the FBI, a signature blank for a petition to the President, Congress and the prea declaring support for Hoover and the FBI; and a form for contributions to the "Friends of the FBI," with blank check marks for amounts of $10 to $1,000. Zimbalist wrote that sub on the job. Lartius met with Lt.

Gov, recently wrote a letter of solic hi EH illrJA 4 Roger Jepsen, several members i I i i IT nit: smus are uieu, pruuauiy within the next few days. Mitchell's announcement followed President Nixon's policy statement on open of the House and Senate appro itation that was mailed to 50,000 persons. It sought contributions to "Friends of the FBI a project of the Commission for priations committees and other employes' representatives to discuss salary requests and re housing last Friday. The President said the government will prosecute individ International Due Process of Law." ports of a pending statewide Lee Edwards, 39, long active Highway Commission employe strike. J.

EDGAR HOOVER EFREM ZlMBALIST, JR. in right-wing causes, and Louis Kutner, 63, chairman and founder of the commission, ual cases of racial bias but will not try to force economic integration on the suburbs. Asked how he would differentiate between economic discrimination and racial discrimination, Mitchell said the Justice Department would have to investigate "the intentions of the parties involved, their state conceived the project to counter At a number of meetings over the weekend highway maintenance employes voted to "take drastic action" if their salary demands are not met. Joseph Coupal, state di Setoffs. wik criticism of Hoover and the FBI.

On GOP Press Staff the founding editor stantial funds were needed to reach hundreds of thousands of Americans with the commission study report. He said contributions were tax deductible, "so I ask you to please be generous." (An Internal Revenue Service spokesman said he did not know whether contributions to "Friends of the FBI" would be tax deductible.) The 47-year-old Zimbalist was picked for his role in "The FBI" by Hoover. The FBI also approves and works on each script of the weekly show. the FBI" and had never met Kutner. Zimbalist's letter, composed with the help of Edwards and Kutner, identifies him as "honorary chairman for Friends of the FBI." "Vicious Attack" "Dear Concerned American," it begins.

"As the enclosed news reports reveal, the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover are now being subjected to the degradation of a vicious partisan attack of New Guard, magazine of the rector of highways, said he advised the employes to "keep cool and keep working." He also said he is willing to work WIREPHOTO (AP) right-wing Young Americans for Freedom, formerly was on with the organization and with state representatives. Gov. Robert Ray said he ments and actions taken. George Romney, secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), appeared with Mitchell at a joint news conference.

Romney announced proposed new guidelines for locating federally subsidized housing projects, with emphasis on selecting sites outside of areas having minority concentrations. Communities that have rejected or made no effort to provide low and moderate income the press staff of Republican National Headquarters. According to Kutner, the commission's board members include Roger Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties hopes the Legislature will look into the Jacobs Report, a year- old study of state salaries that recommended reasonable and fair pay" for highway workers. One of Seven Slaying Victims The body of one of seven persons shot to death Monday in Detroit is removed from a house on the city's west side near the focal point of the 1967 riots. An eighth person was critically wounded and three others escaped.

A number of guns and a quantity of a substance believed to be a narcotic was found in the house. Officers believe the "execution-type" slayings are the latest in a string of 25 narcotics-connected homicides. Search for 4 Men in Detroit After Bloody Execution of 7 Union, Max M. Kampelman of Washington, Senator Hubert I CUSTOM TAILOR IN TOWN IM VM 4 Days June 15-18, fl "IT 1T7 housing will be ineligible for urban renewal projects and wa Ray said he has no plans to meet with Highway Commission employes and said he knows of no authority for the highway workers to strike. Employes this weekend ter and sewer grants, Romney Sat.

iUjJLiUl All Wool Worsted Suit $59.00 Silk Wool Suit 65.00 Terylen Wool Suit 55.00 Sharkskin Suit 58.00 said. Open Hearings agreed to strike unless higher Humphrey's attorney, and several other liberals. In a telephone interview, Baldwin said he knew Kutner "but I don't remember being a member of the board. I certainly have not been active." "I have never heard of 'Friends of the FBI' and I repudiate it," Baldwin added. Kampelman said he was not a member of the commission, The U.S.

Civil Rights Com pay raises and better tringe benefits are voted by the Legis lature. DETROIT, MICH. (AP) hearing a couple of shots, then A spokesman for the commis after about a 10-minute inter An intensive manhunt was un Please call Jack Wadhwani Holiday Inn South Tel: 283-1 7 1 1 ext. 422 Also on Display Ladles Beaded Suits, Dresses, Sweaters, Gloves, Pantsuits, Top Coats. WELCOME ALL.

Ladies May Bring Their Own Pattern. FESTIVAL CLOSES SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO (AP) Puerto Rico's first rock festival came to a close Sunday night without incident. sion employes said he thought no substantial progress was made at Monday's session. der way Monday for four men seen fleeing from a house had never heard of "Friends of where seven persons were shot to death. mission, meanwhile, opened three days of hearings to examine the effectiveness of federal policy in combatting the growing predominance of blacks in inner cities and whites in the suburbs.

Foreshadowing expected tough questioning of Romney and Mitchell at hearings today and Wednesday, the commission vice-chairman, Stephen Horn, indicated the civil rights fact-finding unit believes Mr. Nixon's open-housing policy is not tough enough. "It is clear that a much Police said the deaths may be the latest in a series of murders connected to a battle for control of Detroit's narcotics traffic. val, a fusillade of shots. "It's only conjecture, but one theory is that the killers shot one of the people in the flat," said Bannon.

"Then, they may have realized what they did and tied up the three women with surgical tubes similar to the type used in blood extractions. At that point, there may have been a mass execution, for all of them were shot several times." The seven slain were tentatively identified by police from fingerprint comparison as Kath-erine Louise Winston, 18; Tes-sie Brown, 18; Katherine Betty Basser, 21; Sharon Brown, 19; Three men and four women- three of them with their hands if EARTH bound in front of them died almost immediately of gunshot Ml wounds fired at point-blank range into their heads. An eighth victim, wounded in the chest, was in Ford Hospital. Three other occupants of the first-floor flat in the house bordering Detroit's predominantly black Twelfth Street center sju fife tteUl:) (11 greater leadership role must be assumed by higher governments federal, state and regional -if the suburban-access problem is to be solved," Horn said, speaking for the commission. The first day of hearings concentrated on housing access problems in the metropolitan areas of Dayton, Ohio, Washington, D.C., St.

Louis and Bal Romandez Burton, 23; Carl of the 1967 riots dived out of Darrington Mounts, 26; and Lloyd Kenneth Tyler, 27, all of Detroit. Robert Gardner, 28, of Detroit, the wounded man, reportedly was found by his wife the windows to escape the hail of bullets, police said. The three surrendered at a nearby police station and were being questioned by some of when she returned to the flat at the 20 detectives assigned to 4:30 a.m. Monday. timore, Md.

Citizens and local officials favoring dispersal of blacks to suburbs in these metropolitan areas said strong federal policies are necessary to overcome suburban resistance to subsidized housing. She rushed Gardner to a hos the case. The three were not identified. Police said witnesses report pital, then called police and told them: "There is a real ed four men fled the house on foot after the sound of shots bloodbath in that house." was heard. Said District Inspector James Bannon, who headed the police French Atom Tests Held Satisfactory PAPEETE, TAHITI (REU TER) The air force vice- investigation: "One thing that has us puzzled is why these people apparently just sat quietly while the killer or killers did their work.

There is no DM. Man Jailed On Check Charge Alonzo Lee Bibbins of 1119 Eighteenth St. was arraigned before Polk County Justice of the Peace Charles Roberts Monday on a charge of uttering a forged check. Bibbins, a coordinator for the Model City project to remove junked cars from the marshal in charge of French atomic tests at Mururoa Lagoon in the South Pacific has described the two latest ex evidence of any struggle." Bannon said police found sev periments, June 5 and June 7, as satisfactory. eral hand guns and two long guns in the home, plus a quan YfixH ONE OF THESE o3 I house paint Wood suRFAcesJ tity of narcotics, needles and neighborhood, is being held in Polk County Jail in lieu of $10,000 bond.

He is charged in connection with a check for an undisclosed other paraphernalia. Newspaper accounts said the seven slayings brought to 25 the number of persons slain since the first of the year in continuing war for control of Detroit's rich narcotics traffic. "We cannot say for certain amount drawn on the Northwest National Bank in Johnston last Wednesday. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday.

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