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SUNDAY $2125 MONTH The 'Black Aide Feragert Sapph Will Testify Against Him Earle Parrrsh, one of -three Alameda County tax assessing officials accused of taking money from tax, consultant James. C. Tooke, will become a "state's witness" and will testify "freely" before the Grand Jury tomorrow, his attorney said today. The attorney, George R. Nye, said Parrish spent seven hours yesterday giving an informal statement -v- fir Vlf" I'cf 0 I ylli I -i- Mi to Frank Vukota.

a district! attorney trial prosecutor. "It was extensive and covered an awful" lot of territory," Nye said. The attorney did not say whether any agreement had been reached in negotiations with District Attorney J. Frank Coakley to allow Parrish to-become a state's witness. Coakley was not available for comment.

TWO REFUSALS In-sowing, Parrish-is oik ine the example of Tooke, the key figure in the state's tax scan dal, who has turned state witness and will tell the Grand Jury he gave money to County Assessor Donald E. Feragen and two of his aides, Michael J. Mc- Laughlin and Parristu Both Feragen and McLaugh lin refused to testily at the Grand JujilnjpesimtiiLLavoida role of leadership-in Tribvnt photo by Ruu Kted of 40 who fainted is carried awa from the scene of battle during wild ire Murder' Jeweled Ring May Be Clue in Staying Of Albany Teen-ager A beautiful jeweled ring, mysteriously missing when blonde Diane-Gerrish was found slain tt the Presidio of San Francisco may prove the key element in the ''Black Sapphire" murder. Diane, 19, had told friends the sapphire ring was a treasured gift from her fiance. She was wearing it Saturday night when she left her home at 1042 Peralta Albany, for her rendezvous with death.

JEWEL GONE But when her scratched and touised body, was found gar-roted in a bed of iceplant Monday, the ring had vanished. Linda Smith, 18, of 264 Columbia Kensington, who met Diane when both were students at the North Berkeley Beauty College, told The Tribune she never saw the ring. But Linda's mother, Mrs. Ella Smith, observed that Diane would sometimes ask a boy to let her see his ring, then refuse to give it back. Later, she would say the boy had given it to her.

POSSIBLE MOTIVE Diane's playful habit led to speculation that if she took the blackapphire-fromhe-mur derer, he retrieved it at the scene of the slaying because it might link them together. The FBI, manning a 24-hour investigation- into the slaying, will not comment on the significance of the missing jewel. But Diane's father. Grant Ger rish, noticed its absence immediately when called in to iden tify his daughter's body. "Where is the ring?" he In quired He Was too shaken to make a positive identification of her body and it was up to Di ane mother and younger sis ter to establish the gnrn truth.

Diane; a student beautician, was tall 5 feet 11 and weighed 170 pounds. DEATH BATTLE Authorities estimate she was murdered sometime late Sunday night after a "terrific struggle." She had been struck repeated- Jy and her body was a welter" of scratches. She had not been raped -but- bad-bcensextrally molested, the San Francisco Coroner's Office aid. "She was brg and I imagine she did pretty good damage to her attacker," a deputy coroner commented. But it was noted that she was a habitual nail biter and her fingernails were bitten to the quick, so she would have been unableo" inflicscra tch wounds on her assailant.

The Provost Marshal's Office at the Pfesidio and the Army's Criminal Investigation Division is 'also investigating the slaying. They are questioning every one who might have been in or around the enlisted men's club at the Presidio Sunday night to learn if anyone saw Diane there and if so, who she was with and if anyone saw her leave. The Army agencies said they will turn any information they gatherover to the FBI. Diane was a mediocre student in high school, but at the beauty college she had completed 1,834 hours, considerably more than she needed for the State Board of Cosmetology She was to take the exam yesterday. Also unknown-is-the whereabouts of the new hardtop sedan in which Diane was seen, about 10 p.m.

Saturday, by Al- Continued Page 4, Col. 4 A Beatles' tan Beatl Howl Help' FeellWild Council Forum on Minorities As ans By BEA NYBURG -Take the titles of four Beatle hits and you just about have the story of their Cow Palace concert last night. Everybody in the auditorium need it. includine Forty girls who fainted inf the crush of fans at the foot of the stage. y.

i -i: aeventy-iive poucemen ana its "probe into the tax scandal yesterday on the grounds they were "incompetent witnesses. But who had been scheduled to appear, failed to show up and the jury session, expected to last all day, was suddenly called oft until tomor row morning. Coakley explained, "There has been an unforeseen development which may expedite the whole thing. I cannot say any more. And I will not enlarge upon it." NEGOTIATIONS Then it was learned that Par- rish's attorney spent much of the rest of the day in negotiations with Coakley.

Nye emerged later and told jiewsmen- the negotiations were for the purpose of Parrish turning state's witness. Coakley only admitted that "we're talking to him." The district attorney indicated it may be necessary to delay the grand jury investigation for a time ifaiTish agreesaooop erate. He explained it would take Parrish considerable time to first review with district attor ney investigators the "thousands" of tax transactions in which he took part. DUE TO APPEAR In any case, Coakley said, Par? rish is scheduled to-appear be fort the grand jury when it reconvenes at 9 a.m. tomorrow.

Also testifying will.be Tooke and Lt. Inspector Lester King of the district attorney's staff. Tooke's confiscated business records showed payments of more than $100,000 since 1961 to Parrish, now suspended as supervising personal property appraiser in the assessor's office. When the scandal broke, Parrish admitted receiving $6,000 from Tooke, but maintained the money had been "loaned" to him, although he did not sign any notes for them. He denied i i any tax assessment breaks to business or industrial firms which were Tooke's clients.

SIMILAR PROCESS The "negotiations" involving Parrish can. -be expected to similar to those involving Tooke. Coakley revealed yesterday that Tooke will "cooperate fully" Continued Page 4, Col. 3 ON THE INSIDE Medic's Advice AMA head says doctors probably will learn to live with medicare, but calls for technical changes PageS. "Golden Flow Senator charges poverty war staff get-ting lion's share of the funds in Harlem youth project PageS.

Cupid's Draft Altarward rush of young Americans to avoid service points up need for new rules. Page 22. Moderation Theme Japan Asia and keeps to middle of road. Page 28X. 68 Killed In 14-Day War Toll SAIGON (UPI) Sixty-eight Americans were killed in action during 4he two-week period erasing last Saturday, a U.S.

military spokesman reported Way. The losses were the heaviest of the Viet Nam war for American forces. In addition to the 68 killed. cahuaUy liiteha- Americans wounded and 11 missing in action. The toll included UJS.

Marine casualties suffered in MOpera-tion Starlight," the big American victory over Viet Cone forces near Chu Lai1 two weeks ago. The Leathernecks knocked out a hard-core Viet Cong regiment, killing 600 guerrillas by actual body count. COPTER CRASHES Four American crewmen and a Vietnamese observer were jdlled today when a U.S. UH1B helicopter crashed one-half mile south of Ben Cat 25 miles south-southwest of Saigon. North Vietnamese gunners shot down an American jet late Tuesday, but the pilot was rescued by a U.SrAirForce beli-7 copter crew.

An American military spokesman identified the airman as Capt. WDliam Bollinger of Ma-quoketa, Iowa. The plane, an F105 Thuhderchief fighter-bomber, wasihe of four jets attacking STbridge on Highway 13 about 95 miles west of Hanoi. HIT BY. ACK-ACK Othepflbts on the mission reported that Bollinger's plane was hit by conventional antiaircraft fare and crashed to the target area.

Bollinger ejected and was picked up a short time later by the crew of an Air Continued Page 2, Col. Mars Black Space Photos Checked PASADENA (AP) Phot graphs of black space have been relayed by U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 for scientists checking the accuracy of pictures taken of Mars July 14. A Jet Propulsion Laboratory spokesman said yesterday the' photographs taken Monday will be checked to see if smudges recorded on the Mars pictures appear in the same places on the new exposures. He said if they dor it will be evidence of a daw In the camera The 575-pound spacecraft was relaying the 10 new pictures at a rate of one every ten hours.

Cow Palace concert Housing Fence Row In Flareup The Oakland Housing Author ity is accused of using "unfair methods designed to confuse and intimidate tenants" in the lat- esL-flareup Jn Jhebattle over backyard' fences. The charges were hurled by Richard L. Ydrk, commander of the a 1 1 a Improvement League, one platoon of residents formed to defend their fences from the authority's "beautifi- cation" program. An uneasy truce has been in effect since theauthority-three, weeks ago decTded to poll the residents of three housing projects on their preference" as to fences. Authority members voted 3 to 2 to instruct Reginald Guichard executive director, to ask the residents of Peralta Villa, Lockwood Gardens and Camp bell Everyone was to be asked, ncluding those living on the second floor.

The tenants received their ballots Monday. They were given two choices: 1 "Do you favor the beautm- cation program which envisions integrated landscaping and which will entail the eventual removal of backyard fences?" 2 "Do you favor tenant main tenance of backyard fences that are uniform in respect and that are maintained to assure safety and good appear ance? York claims a foul. He says Continued Page 2, Col. 3 By GENE AYRES Oakland city councilmen sat stony-faced and 'silent for almost two hours yesterday while a-parade-of-speakersaccused them of not acting on or caring enough about the city's minor; lty and poverty problems. The unusual" open forum ession was called at the de mand of civil rights activists who stood up at a council meeting last week and asked to be coached ihto muteness by Mayor John C.

Houlihan, the lty fathers heard Latter complaint that the city has railed to make, progress in practically every area of racial and economic unrest. Speakers repeatedly' charged that the city was failing in housings jobs, "police brutality," housing discrimination and hiring minorities as city employes. And at the Curtis Baker of the Western End Help Center told the councilmen: "You are the heads of our city. We vote' for you, not the chief of police. I say if you had made the Negro community a part of the city of Oakland, we wouldn't have to be here at all! "What happened in Watts, I am' hot saying it's right, I'm not saying it's wrong.

But one thing it did. It opened your eyes and those of a lot of cities in California." In the audience was Terence Continued Page 4, Col. 1 "'Burns detectives trying to prevent the complete swallowing-up the stage ana Its coveted contents by the frenzied crowd. The Beatles, vainly attempting to make themselves heard, above the glass 'shattering shrieks Of thousands while dodging all sorts of flying objects and stage-going "I'm Down." That was the cry of the many who were trapped in a human pile-up at the foot of the stage. The show had to be stopped for five minutes while police' and ushers dragged out the injured.

Even a Burns guard had to be carried out after being slugged by a pop bottle and kicked in the stomach while trying to keep crowds back from the stage. John W. Edwards, 41, later returned to his post, how ever, showing almost as much courage as the Beatles did by remaining on stage. One escapee from the pile reached a friend in a side aisle and sobbed, "Kid5 vere almost getting killed swear I wouldn't breathe in there. I can't believe More Pictures on Page IS it we were crushed.

One girl on the bottom looked dead." (A check after the performance detectives revealed no ambulances were dispatched from the Cow Palace and only minor injuries had been reported.) Hard J)ay's Night." It was- such a night for the Beatles arid their fans. The five-foot barrier erected around the stage excluded and frustrated all but the fan "from its hallowed" 'floorboards. Many tried to vault the barrier; most failed. But a few succeeded, like the girl in the black and white check shift who gave Paul McCartney a big hug before four fnen finally tore her away and the boy in Levis and cotton shirt who rawsmpsssaTTI Hlll'lmill Jill iffF nfISAr jk lYfc Jy tyr A XVTlffl! rWff'- 11 MY FAIR LADY TEMPERATURES (M ouf pcrMtf tndlnj noon today) Oakland Downtown. .67 61 Airport 68 63 S.F.

Downtown 64 60 Airport .69, 56 made a dash for Ringo, touched him and-, his drums, then suc cumbed to the inevitable forced exit with, several policemen. It was a harder night for the police, detectives and ushers, ho.weiexJhejriojtdetejTOined female fans soon outsmarted them with a little game called pass-out and come-to. The object of. the game is to touch a Beatle. The game is played in four easy steps: 1 Make sure one of the stage guards has you in sight.

2 Pretend to faint. -Let the guards rescue you and remain limp until within arm's distance from a Beatle as you're bein carried Jacross the '4 Grab a Beatle and hold on tight. Most Beatle fans weren't faking their faints, however. Many just happened to come to as they were carried across stage arid did what was natural attack. "I Feel Fine." That was the reaction of the Beatles, although they were a little worse for wear, after ending the show.

It was the last of 16 days of performances in New York, Atlanta, Houston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Portland, Los Angeles and the city by the Bay. And they were probably happy to be out of it all in one piece. "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah," Search for U.S. Plane in China Sea MANILA, (AP) Search planes combed the China Sea off northern Luzon today seeking a States military transport plane missing with nine men aboard. A spokesman 'for the U.S.

Air Force 31st Air Rescue Squadron at Clark Air Base, said three U.S. planes, two British' Shack-letons and three Nationalist Chinese flying boats were making the The missing plane took off from Nha Trang, South Viet Nam, Tuesday with 11 hours fuel aboard. It was last heard from somewhere off the west coast of northern Luzon. THE WEATHER STORY BAY AREA Fair tonight and tomorrow except for high fog near the coast extending inlandNught and. mornings.

low tonighf 52 to 60. West Tomato Class WHERE TO FIND IT Astrology 19-X Aunt Elsi 33-X Bridge 19-X Classified Ads 29 Comic. 32-X Crossword Puzzle 29 Editorial 22 Financial ......45 Bi Fi-t Focus 23 Ann Landers 23 Martha Lee 1-X Al Martinez .23 Riesel .22 39 sporrs eaters ...19 TV and Radio -20 Vitals 37 Weather 37 World of Women 25 toll in morale." The $125,000 program was administered by the state under the Federal Manpower Develop- -ment and Retraining Act. Thj2530 men were enrolled in. a twffweeks program at Davis which included physical education classes, cannery visits and instruction in tomato picking in leased fields.

John Dempewolf, acting man-. ager of the State labor office at 810 14th St. in Oakland said two members recruited' here stopped in his office to report they intended return to the fields and "had no kicks." ing the course. Dudley A. Cameron, deputy area manager for the State Department of Employment in San Francisco, said the men were recruited in the Bay Area for (he program.

Larin blamed the workers' refusal, in part, op a handbill circulated at the Yolo County Fair which criticized Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz and termed the workers drifters and winos. "I cannot say this was the whole cause of the program's failure," Larin said. "I would say it had its part; It took its A state-sponsored school in "graduating" tomato pickers ended in failure with only half the quota enrolled and most of those refusing to work, its director said today in Davis. Deputy Director of Employment Don Larin conceded the course aimed at training 500 unemployed workers to harvest tomatoes failed.

Larin said only 230 of an expected 500 had enrolled. The graduates were due to report for work in the fields Monday but, he said, 90 per cent remained in training camps and waited to be paid for complet erly winds 10 to 20 m.p.h. 'r'.