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CHICAGO TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1968 Section 1 3 NEWS Briefs SAIL EMPLOYE IDENTIFIED AS HELPING HOOD Testimony Heard Before Jury mf 1 "T771 will fpTT I if: i. 1 I 4 r-fl Jte-i I vest Foreign PRAGUE Three wolves drank a jar of homemade plum brandy a moonshiner had hidden in a field near Michalovce, and finding the wolves a bit wobbly, the moonshiner loaded them on a cart and hurried off to collect a $165 bounty on the live animals. He got the reward but had to pay back $22.50, the fine for his illegal distillery. MOSCOW Mao Tse-tung has become the best man at all weddings in communist China, the newspaper Pravda said yesterday. The order has been passed to newlyweds to "give up the traditional wedding celebration and gifts" and turn Mao Tse-tung For the man of perception who demands the utmost in quality, appearance and comfort Lytton's presents a new Parliamentarian creation, a pure Cashmere Sportcoat in an unusually lishtweight version.

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Because it was sufficiently mixed with water, there was no danger. ANN ARBOR, Mich. Dr. Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon who has performed two heart transplant AP Wireptioto Low Ceiling Did you ever see a giraffe sitting? It is a rare occasion when they do sit, according to St. Louis zoo officials.

Here Janey and Reggie, youngsters from Africa, rest in their quarters at the zoo. BY WILLIAM JONES AND BERNARD JUDGE A staff member of the county jail has been named before the county grand jury as having provided mobster Sam Teetz Battaglia with gourmet food, whisky, and a refrigerator while Battaglia was in jail, The Tribune learned yesterday. The statements of seven former inmates, no. housed in state penitentiaries, were presented to the grand jury last Wednesday by Patrick A. Tuite, chief of the criminal division of the state's attorney's office.

Confirmed by Lie Tests The statements, all confined by lie detector tests, we. taken by Josep R. Rowan, executive director of the John Howard association, a prisoner welfare agency which has been critical of jail operations. Tuite and Rowan refused to discuss the statements. Contained in the statements, it was learned, are allega- ARREST DOCTOR PARLIAMENTARIAN operations, will lecture at the University of Michigan March 6.

Dr. Barnard is scheduled to arrive in the United States in late February, visit Cornell university, and speak before the American Board of Cardiologists in San Francisco before visiting Ann Arbor for three days. FRANKFORT, Ky. The Kentucky Court of Appeals has ruled that a property owner, in general, "has no legal obligation to keep his premises safe for the trespassing animals of others." The recent decision reversed a trial court award to the owner of a horse that ran into the guy wire of a power company pole and was injured. The court said the animal was trespassing and the property owner was not to blame.

1 Auto Thief Changes Mind, ThankstoBilly IN WIFE KILLING mm BY FRANK HARAMIJA Shot 12 Times in The Rosses notified Itasca An auto thief got more than he bargained for last night when he stole a new station police and soon every police Head and Neck agency in the western suburbs was on the lookout for the wagon in Itasca. A 2-month-old-baby was on the front seat. St Ate Jackson 'Evans ton Eversreen OaIc Parle Tri City Aurora Golf Mill Park Forest Old Orchard River Oaks station wagon and William Robert. in Dr. John Marshall Branion, a south side physician, was arrested yesterday in the murder of his wife, Donna, 41, who was shot to death a month ago in the couple's apartment at 5054 Woodlawn av.

Store Hours Downtown Monday and Thursday, 9 :15 to 7 :00 Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 9: 15 to 5 :45 Little William Robert Ross, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ross, of 105 Roselle road, Schaumburg, had been left in a blue blanket on the front seat of the family auto while his parents stopped in his father's real estate office for a minute. Key in Ignition The car was parked only a few feet away from the entrance of the office, at 127 Walnut Itasca, Ross told police. The key was in the ignition.

Shortly after they entered the building, Mrs. Ross looked out the window to see the auto slowly moving from the parking space. She called to her husband who ran out the front door, slipped, and fell. The auto continued down the street and disappeared. Rowan left and Tuite tions that the staff member arranged to have home-cooked 10 A short time later, Elmhurst police received an anonymous call that a baby was on the front seat of a station wagon in a restaurant parking lot.

Find Baby Unharmed Policemen Joseph Winkler and John Wiebler went to the parking lot of the Snack Time restaurant, at Illinois highway 83 and North avenue, Elmhurst. They found little William Robert, blue blanket and all, in the front seat of the auto which had been left in the lot. He was unharmed. Wirkler and Wiebler took the baby in the squad car to the Elmhurst police station, Wiebler driving; and Winkler making cooing sounds to the baby. William didn't even cry.

Soon he was reunited with his parents in the station, totally unaware of all the commotion that htil occurred. foods and whisky taken to the jail for Battaglia. The arrange ment included tb heating of the nuptials into paens to the communist Chinese party chair-' man, Pravda reported. Local A burglar left a calling' card early yesterday after breaking open a safe containing $3,000 in a Simoniz car wash outlet at 413 W. 14th Chicago Heights.

Below a sign on the safe reading, Brink's, can open this safe," the burglar left a scrap of paper on which was written "Ha ha, me too." Burglars who looted other Simoniz outlets in Des Plaines and Crystal Lake of more than $5,000 last night attempted no jokes. They just carried off the safes in those places. While Mayor Daley is vacationing this week in the Florida keys, sections of his City. hall office are being remodeled. The rush job, according to City Architect Jerome Butler, includes enlarging the conference room in the mayor's outer office from 47 to 72 seats, building five individual offices for top aids, and providing space for a dozen secretaries.

Butler declined to reveal how much the work will cost, but it was learned the price tag is in excess of $100,000. An international poster art exhibit of 68 award winning designs will be on display in the lobby of the Civic center thru Jan. 31. The posters were selected by Graphis, a Swiss art magazine. A Chicagoan, John V.

Massey, is among the American artists. Damages of $580,000 are sought in 41 suits filed in Circuit court yesterday against the city and county as a result of looting and damage to west side property during the big snowstorm of last January. Leader Cleaners, the single largest plaintiff, claimed 12 of its cleaning stores suffered $15,000 losses apiece. National KALAMAZOO, Mich. Modernity has come to the nuns of the Congregation of the Sisters of St.

Joseph in nearby Nazareth. Not only will modern dress by allowed, but nuns may reassume their "civilian" names. Sister Verona, head of Nazareth college, has switched to her maiden name of Mary Louise Bader. The program will be looked at again at the end of the year. CHAMBERBURG, Pa.

Authorities safely transferred 9,000 gallons of highly flammable ethylbenzene 'from a ruptured railroad tanker to tank trucks yesterday, ending several anxious hours for inhabitants of this central Pennsylvania community. About 1,000 gallons of the food in the jail kitchen before it was taken to the hoodlum's tier. Contacted After Raid Warden Jack Johstson con firmed yesterday tizc he had been contacted bt Rowan who kept it in his cell until it was seized during the raid. The refrigerator is manufac Mrs. Branion -was found in a utility room of the apartment with 12 bullet wounds in her head, neck, and shoulders.

At the time, police theorized that her assailant was known to her because there were no signs of struggle. Discovers the Body Dr. Branion, 43, told police his wife was all right when he left home at 9 a. m. that day with their son, John III, 4.

He said he took the boy to nursery school and then went to his office at 5027 prairie av. He returned home at 11:30 a. and discovered the body, he said. He was arrested yesterday afternoon in the Ida Mae Scott hospital by Washington Park homicide detectives who had a warrant issued by Judge Daniel J. Ryan of Felony court.

Judge Issues Warrant Detectives said Judge Ryan issued the warrant after studying evidence gathered by police in the month-long investigation. Four expended shells and a bullet were round near the body, but the murder weapon was not recovered. Dr. Branion is to appear before Judge Ryan today. The Branions have another child, Elizabeth, 12 Dr.

Branion is the son of the late John Marshall Branion, first assistant public (defender who died in 1965. tured bv a foreign firm. Inves after a raid on the ja'l Dec. 8 by Sheriff Joseph I Woods. The refrigerator was Mcovered in the cell of Martit.

Tajra, a condemned killer and former barn boss of tier E-l. Battaglia had been housed in that tigators are attempting to deter mine who purchased it. 5 MORE CHICAGO AREA PLANES TO HUNTDARFLERS 7-A -j Sheriff Woods was informed of the allegations two days ago, it was learned. No action is expected until be returns from Washington, where he is making several appearances with his daughter Rosemary, 6, who is the national poster girl this year for the Cystic Fibrosis fund drive. The disclosures are the latest in a series of charges by the John Howard association and undercover investigators from the adult probation department.

The charges include violence, inmate control of the jail, and narcotics traffic among inmates and guards. The grand jury is expected to compile its report this month. Tajra left and Battaglia AN NOW UNEw (ip A fn tier from May to Oct. 7, when he was transferred to the fed eral penitentiary at Leaven FIREMEN SET worth, to begin serving a 15-year term for extortion-Johnson said the investigation is continuing but refused VIET SITUATION (Picture on back page) Chicago Tribune Press Service Longmont, Jan. 22 Five Chicago area pilots were scheduled to fly their planes here tomorrow to join in the air search for four members of a prominent Chicago family whose light plane disappeared during a flight between Denver and Aspen 10 days ago.

Arrangements for the aircraft were made by exectuives of the Beverly bank, Chicago, where the pilot of the missing plane, Donald Darfler, is a vice president. Colorado air patrol CAP officials here were anxious to get the added help for the search because many local volunteer pilots have had to return to their regular employment. The new planes will bring to nine the number of Chicago area aircraft which will join CAP planes in the search which is expected to resume tomorrow. Besides Donald Darfler, of 10755 S. Seeley those missing are his wife, Jessamine; their daughter, Deanna, 14; Donald's brother, Charles and his son, Charles 15.

Charles Darfler owns and operates a 350 acre farm near Sandwich, 111. to comment further. It was learned, however, IS LIKE KOREA, SENATOR SAYS that three guard sergeants and two lieutenants were given lie detector tests yesterday on the smuggling activities. Three more guard sergeants are to take lie tests next week. Jail UP NEW OFFICE ON COMPLAINTS Fireman Peter C.

Cunningham, 37, yesterday was appointed director of the office of fire fighter personnel liaison, a new office to hear and adjust firemen's complaints. A similar position recently was created in the police department. Cunningham, who lives at 10727 Millard has been a fireman 12 years. Robert J. Quinn, fire commissioner, announced that Cunningham will be assisted by Fireman Thomas G.

Reddy, 6425 S. Kenneth and Lt. Clarence J. Brown, 6245 South Park av. officials believe that contra band cannot be taken into tiers without guard coopera tion.

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