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4 A 9V fell ttilmie 'Hffi fiiial fa. a D'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER The American paper lor Americans 123d YEAR-NO. 345 19C9 Chicago Tribune THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1969 7 SECTIONS 10c r3 3 1 MifMMnl Manmhan, Police Tell Panther Story A CHRISTMAS STORY 70 DEMANDS ARE LISTED City Goofs; Loses Aid to Save Trees Detail of Events Leading to Raid CHARGES IRS, MOB LINK IN NEW JERSEY ONCf UPON A TiME, A BAD LITTLE eOV LEARN 6P That HE HAD BEEN LIVING 4iE MOOSE WITH KRIS KRINCLE DY TEACHERS and Gun Battle New Shop Clause U. S. Takes Over Crime Probe BY EDWARD LEE AND ROBERT W1EDRICII Copyright 1969; The Chicago Tribune The first eye-witness accounts of state's attorney's policemen who took part in a gun battle last Thursday with a band of Black Panthers were obtained exclusively last night by The Tribune.

BY MICHAEL KILIAN The city will not get its annual federal beautification grant this year because, despite several attempts, it was unable to properly fill out the federal application forms, a Tribune-Better Government association investigation disclosed yesterday. Lost to the city as a result was $500,000 in federal funds to be used for removing dead trees and planting new ones. to federal housing NewarkN. Dec. 10 iffi Reports of links between organized crime and government in New Jersey spread today, as federal authorities took over a county probe of alleged corruption in Newark ant) a justice department source said the RUSSIA AND 0.

WEST -Germany Poland crime syndicate had worked its way into the state's office of State's Atty. Edward V. Hanrahan made the policemen available for interviews to refute what he termed an orgy of sensationalism in the press and on television since Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Gark were slain in an exchange of gunfire with detectives in a West side apartment building. Hanrahan and his top aids, Richard Jalovec, chief of the special prosecutions division, and Robert Boyle, criminal division chief, also made available official police photographs which they said the federal internal revenue service. There were indications the CD f) imtTtofMreiTntH Included BY PETER NEGRONIDA The Chicago Teachers union wants what is called an "agency shop clause" in its 1970 contract with the board of education, according to a copy of the onion's demands released yesterday by John E.

Desmond, union president. Such a clause would require the board to deduct the equivalent of union dues from the pay of nonmembers of the union bargaining unit, and turn the money over to the union. The union represents 28,000 school board employes of whom 20,000 are union members. Dues May Increase The union already gets mem bers' dues that way under a checkoff clause. Currently, dues are $56 a year, which is 810 of 1 per cent of the starting salary of $8,000 a year.

Dues would go up if the board meets the union's demand for a 10 per cent raise for all members of the unit, also Included in the list. Coupled with the salary in Newark mayor may have to answer a federal grand jury's questions in the investigation Woman Strikes Oil- THE WEATHER THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1M CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Cloudy and colder today; alleged illegalities. Tells Syndicate Control In Boca Raton, mean and urban development department officials interviewed by the investigative team, the city public works department, acting as agent for the bureau of forestry, and the city park district both applied for $500,000 federal grants. Gets Its Money The park district filled out ita application properly, submitted it early last spring, and received its money without any problem. A According to the officials, the public works department application was rejected in April because it was filled out incorrectly.

It was resubmitted in July and once again it was rejected. The department tried Edward Hanrahan But It's Unwanted chance of snow flurries; high, in mid 30s; cloudy and while, United States Atty. Gen. John Mitchell said organized crime had gained control of a large portion of the IRS in one state. He refused to identify the BY CHARLES MOUNT colder tonight; low, in lower 20s; northerly winds 10 to 18 m.

p. b. Tomorrow: Partly cloudy and not much change state, but an aid said it was in temperature. New Jersey. ILLINOIS: Cloudy colder today; Mitchell predicted massive Indictments in 10 days which he said would crush "the furniture out" of the basement and washing down the oil.

"The firemen told me they were surprised there wasn't an explosion," she said. "The pilot light on our furnace was on the whole time." Remodeling Job Needed "There might as well have been an explosion, we're going to have to pull down our basement paneling and ceiling after conclusively proved the Panthers opened the battle by firing a shotgun blast thru the apartment door. Reason for No Gas Hanrahan insisted that his men could not have fired tear gas shells into the flat first since, under the law, they were required to knock at the door an attempt to serve a search warrant. The warrant was issued on the basis of information that the apartment was a clandestine cache for weapons. Further, Hanrahan and his men declared that they had no prior knowledge that Hampton and Clark would be found in the flat.

In fact, the identities of the two men were not learned until after they had been killed in the gun battle, the prosecutor said. Sgt. Daniel Groth, who led the raiding party of 14 detectives, furnished the most dramatic description of the battle in which he described how he and his men fought it out with the Panthers in the darkened apartment which later was again in November, but it was still wrong and past the Mrs. -Roberta Weinstein returned home yesterday to find she had struck oil. Two inches of the stuff covered her basement floor.

1 There was also oil over the basement ceiling, on the furniture, and covering the paneled basement walls of her town-house at 9509-B Gross Point Skokie. Mrs. Weinstein has no illusions about becoming wealthy. She suspects that some heating oil supplier made a mistake. largest gambling syndicate ever broken up in this coun chance of mow flurriei northwest and a chance ol little Ught rain or mow foutheart with hlfhi ranging from around It extreme northweit to tbe lower 401 extreme toutheast; partly cloudy and colder tonight with lowi It to IS extreme northweit to the middle 20a extreme aoutheait tomorrow: Partly cloudy and not much change in try." He said there would be We even offered some of our massive indictments of pub people to help them fill it out lic officials at the local level." Mitchell added, "Organized HOURLY TEMPERATURES but the department insisted on going it alone," said one of the officials.

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...41 'Eitlmatto. crease Is a demand that the salary schedule be shortened so that a teacher may reach maximum pay after 12 years, rather than the current 36. Seek More Jurisdiction Aside from pay, the union's biggest push for 1970 is to get jurisdiction over the 1,800 authorized teacher aid positions. The union also wants the board to raise the number to 2,300 in January, and to grant the aids civil service status. They should start at $445 a month, according to the union, partment had an easy time be this." Her townhouse was converted to gas beating more than 16 months ago before she and her husband bought the place.

However, workmen left in place the oil pipe line leading from the backyard to the basement where the oil storage tank had Mayor is Questioned Since last June, two former cause it first asked HUD exact Oil Fumes Strong "I was at the doctor with my 15-month-old son Andrew," she ly what information was wanted tHItk. tLew. Sketch and Pictures on Back Page explained from her living room and set up a special federal grant division in the office to supervisors in the audit division of the IRS in Newark have been indicted on bribery charges. Several others under investigation have resigned. which also reeked with oil work out all the details.

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Frederick exact locations where the park district trees would be planted, which the park district pro reach until they have been em ployed for 5 years'. been located. "Apparently, the oil pumped into our house was intended for our next door neighbor. They have an oil heating system. The oil company must have pumped it into our pipe by mistake." Mrs.

Weinstein called her lawyer, and the oil company called her to say they were sending someone over to clean up the basement. I smejled the oil fumes. "I ailed my husband, and he told me to call the fire department. As I was calling, my housekeeper Mrs. Edna Miller arrived and went to the basement to investigate.

She discovered the oil." The Skokie fire department arrived and began hauling the B. Lacey vowed to "wage war" on organized crime with a joint force including two members of vided. The public works department, however, was unable to In School Supt. James F. Redmond's tentative 1970 budget, the Essex county prosecutor's come up with this information, the teacher aids will not be em ployed after June 30 as a budg staff.

Material from a 100-day among many other things, the HUD officials said. county grand jury investigation was turned over to the federal et balancing measure. Also cut in the tentative budget are the In a city this large it takes CONG RELEASE panel, which has called Mayor a lot of time to get the address teachers' two weeks paid vaca Hugh J. Addonizio among its tion, and 600 unfilled positions. of every single tree," said Mrs, Elizabeth Maclean, who is i 2 U.S.

FLYERS NEAR CAMBODIA witnesses. The union wants all items re Addonizio, who refused yes- deputy commissioner of public stored. vaaMnaBnavaMBBjBjBaR. works and who handled nego Continned oa page 8, col. 3 tiations for the federal money, Among other highlights of the union's list of more than 150 demands for 1970 are: Complaining that HUD "changed the rules," she said SAIGON, Dec.

11 Thursday LtV-Two American army flyers captured by the Viet Cong after they were shot down last month have been freed, the United States command announced today. The two men, WO Michael T. Peterson, 21, of Redmond, 1. Five free preparation periods a week for elementary FOUR STUDENTS HOSPITALIZED IN RABIES CASE the city would try again next year and would ask for twice as much money to compensate Continued on page 7, col. 4 for what was lost this year.

Four pupils of the Hedges Richard Friedman, B. G. A. Features found to have been filled with shotguns, rifles, hand guns, and ample stores of ammunition for the various weapons. Groth and Jalovec both said the foray on the Panther arsenal had its beginnings Dec.

2, when informants who had previously furnished the prosecutor's office with reliable information reported the cache of guns in the first floor flat at 2337 Monroe st. Jalovec had received his information earlier in the day, and Sgt. Groth received his from an informant who telephoned his home at 10:30 p. m. The following morning the men met at the state's attorney's office and compared notes.

According to the informants, at least three shotguns had been observed in the flat Neither, however, made any mention of Hampton's or Gark's frequenting the apartment, Sgt. Groth said. At noon, Sgt. Groth and Detectives James Davis and Bill Kelly discussed plans for the raid on the flat. This session was held after Sgt Groth had personally surveyed the building and neighborhood and then dispatched Kelly and Davis to do the same.

Reject Early Night Raid "At first I thought we'd hit the place at 8 o'clock that night," Sgt Groth said. "But after talking it over, we decided that would be a bad time, both for our safety and that of residents of the area. "It's a heavily populated neighborhood, so we feared first for tbe safety of people on the streets at that hour and secondly we feared such a raid might create an incident in the area, which we knew was the heart of Panther territory. Our object was to avoid an incident." On this basis, Groth and the other detective decided to stage the raid shortly before o'clock the next morning, Thursday, Dec. 1.

"This wasn't the first time our squads had gone after dangerous individuals," Sgt Groth said. "And on tbe basis of the information we had, it was clear that we might be run ning up against dangerous individuals." Judge Issues Warrant At 4:45 p. m. that day, Jalovec obtained a search warrant from Judge Robert Collins of Criminal court, citing tbe facts obtained from the informants. Then Groth drew a lengthy series of orders for tbe 13 detectives who would accompany him, spelling out in detail each of their assignments in covering and entering the apartment's front and rear doors.

Equipment drawn for tbe raid included a submachine gun, three school, 473S Winchester avv have been hospitalized in the Action Express 1A, p. 1 executive director, said the miscue showed the need for reorganizing the city's tree program, repeating B. G. A. Municipal Contagious Disease hospital after coming in con Bob Cromie Page 30 Books Pg and Sgt.

Vernon C. Shepard, 21, of Akron, are in good condition, the command said. They walked into a South Vietnamese outpost Just after noon yesterday near a special forces camp on the Cambodian border, 135 miles northeast of Saigon. tact with a rabid bat Monday charges of widespread waste, Bridge by Gores 2, p. on the school's playground, the fraud, and loafing in the bu Capitol Views Pagezf It reau of forestry.

Classified Ads Sec, Chicago board of health announced yesterday. "The money was badly Crossword paiile Sec. IA, p. II Drama, music, movies 2 Two of the four, all of whom needed and now we've lost it, SOUTH KOREAN he said. "Of course, half of Editorials PageJS are boys in their early teens, are believed to have been either it probably would have been Harris Poll Sec.

1A, p. 1 wasted anyway." AIR LINER LOST, FEAR HIJACK How to Keep Well Page 28 Living Faith Sec.JA.p.l Neighborhood News Sec. 3C Asked about Mrs. Maclean' plans to try again next year, Friedman said: "We'd be glad to help them scratched or bitten by the bat, according to Dr. Jack Zackler, assistant health commissioner.

Tbe other two have scratches indicating they also may have been injured by the bat, said Zackler. Tbe boys discovered the bat on the school playground and bad been playing with it, Zackler said. A school official SEOUL, Korea, Dec. 10 urt A South Korean airliner with 51 persons aboard is missing and is believed to have been hijacked to North Korea, an official of the Koreas airline said today. Tbe airline official said be bad reports that tbe plane, a Sy Saya Sec.

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II CARTOONS out I know several bright high school students who'd be more than willing to assist them in filling out the forms." prop-jet YSll, bad landed at eun point at Wonsan, on the Give Us the Means. east coast SO miles north of the turned the animal over to police, who sent it to the board of health where tests disclosed tbe bat was rabid. Children in Comic Page Sec. JA, p. i ic tat, AN la laeft 1 I Matt MeftVat I rw Sl ti PMMrts I I TkH I flM like It 1 1 Te Atom .11 LMf Matter .1 1 Tt MwckMfl .1 mm (Mi a 1 1 wm a i but don't lead us, sayt South YietnamtM colonel in Samuel Jameson's series en demilitarized tone.

Tbe plane had taken off shortly after noon from Kang-nung, 100 miles east of Seoul, for a 45-mimite flight to the (TRieCMf Ptetol Mrs. Roberta Weinstein examines basement floor in her home after firemen washed away oil covering. shotguns, and walkie talkie radios. "We didu't take tear gas because of the specific nature CeoUaaed ea page 2. eL 1 the Hedges school and other schools in the vicinity were warned to avoid contact with bats or any other rodent.

the war in Viet Nam. On page 14, section I A. Sec. 2, p. SS Page! Obituaries News Digest i capital.

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