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Zoi Angeled Cfmrs Page 2, Part I SOUTHLAND Best Man Freed in Groom's Slaying The Newsmakers A News of TUESDAY; JAN. 4, 1972 THE WORLD Chevalier Estate The estate of the late entertainer Maurice Chevalier is estimated at $19 million, the French daily newspaper Le Parisien Libere said. Chevalier's estate includes his mansion at Marnes la Coquette, some buildings in Taris, shares in a U.S. electronic company and works of art by Van, Gogh, Bonnard, Cezanne, Matisse, Utrillo, Dufy and Picasso, the paper said: The mansion and the art works will probably, be to the old actors' home that Chevalier established and supported for many years, the paper said. The White House said the President did not.

intend to imply any softening of support for the South' Vietnamese government when he tied total U.S. withdrawal from Indochina to release of all American POWs. (Part 1, Page 1.) Pakistan President Zulfikar Alt Bhutto told a roaring rally in Karachi that he is releasing East Pakistan political leader Sheik Mujibur Rahman unconditionally later this week. (Part 1, Page 1.) f. North Korea accused the United States of sending a high-speed, high-altitude SR-71 reconnaissance plane into North Korean airspace to conduct "espionage and hostile acts" and said it constituted a "grave' military provocation." The United States is "second to no one with respect to overall military power," an aide to Defense Secretary Melvin R.

Laird said. He commented in response to a private group's drive to convince the American people that the Communists are overtaking the United States in armed strength. The group is the American Security Council, which focuses on national defense issues and has- no connection with the U.S. government. Canadian police sought three bandits who stole an estimated $200,000 worth of European currency from the British Overseas Airways Corp.

cargo office at Montreal's International-Airport. More than half of the currency was British. The armed robbers handcuffed four employes and forced the manager tp, open a walk-in vault. The currency was being held for transfer to a Montreal bank. London bus and subway travelers were hit with a fare increase that involved hundreds of transit personnel in furious argument.

People complained that advance publicity Murder charges were dismissed against Paul Wolkoff in the shotgun slaying of a man for whom he had been best man in a wedding 13 hours before the shooting. Municipal Judge Noel Cannon dropped the case against Wolkoff, 20, by granting a defense motion that he acted in self defense. Wolkoff testified that he shot Michael Rogers, 18, during a fight that erupted in the Highland Park apartment they shared. The shooting followed their return from the wedding in Las Vegas. Orange County Transit District directors, frequently criticized for lack of action, hired a full-time general manager, signed a $42,500 contract for a four-month study of the county's bus needs and awarded a $6,000 grant to UC Irvine to help finance an experimental free bus system on and near the campus.

(Part 2, Page lh The 1971 Orange County Grand Jury used its final report of the year to voice strong criticism of efforts to emasculate the county administrative office and Planning Department. (Part 2, Page 1.) David R. Parker, former deputy probation officer, pleaded not guilty to murder and felony child cruelty charges in the death of 8-month-old Jeffrey Allen Fitzgibbon last July 31. Parker, 29, was indicted Thurs- dayA by the Orange County Grand Jury. The child, son of Mrs." Sara Fitzgibbon, had been left in Parker's care.

After he entered his plea, bail was set at $10,000. 'n Gov. Reagan declared state of emergency in Santa Barbara County as a result of floods, mudslides and heavy winds that began Dec. 27. Damage caused by heavy winds, rains, flooding and the runoff of mud and silt has beeri' estimated at $2,354,000 by county authorities; Reagan said.

The proclamation, requested by the Santa Barbara County, Board of Su- Jiervisors, allows the county to seek ederal assistance for disaster victims and damages to public proper- ty." Management of the Inyo and Sierra National forests revised its tion on the proposed Minarets Trans-Sierra Highway, concluding that the road would have adverse ecological effects on the area. A 1968 statement by the U.S. Forest Service said it did not require the road but would "avoid any acton5 C- that would bar or disfavor the highway." The latest statement said in part: "the impact of road construction would have adverse effects on national forest resources, and these adverse effects outweight the benefits of such a road for national forest uses." The proposed highway would start in Madera County near North Fork and run in an easterly direction -via the San Joaquin River to Minareto Summit and then to the Mammoth Lakes Road, covering a distance of 86 miles. A 21-year-old San Diego man, who jumped $100,000 bail last June while awaiting trial on charges of smuggling 42 pounds of cocaine into the United States from Mexico, surrendered to the FBI at the San Ysidro port of entryAuthorities said An the Day Compiled from th Loj' Anoitlej TlmM, th tot Angelas Tlnm-WsiWrioton Post News Service end mslor wire end supplementary news agencies. Put at $19 Million had talked about only an 8 increase while many of the fares went up 100.

"We almost had a one worker said. King Frcderik IX of Denmark was hospitalized in. Copenhagen after suffering a heart attackHowever, a hospital spokesman said there was "no special reason" for worry about the condition, of the 72-year-dld monarch. Rik de Sonay, a 75-yedr-old Belgian who celebrates each New Year's Day by diving 60 feet from a Rome bridge into the Tiber, was in serious condition from injuries suffered in this year's plunge. Doctors at San Camillo Hospital said De Sonay was being given oxygen through an incision in his Both his arms were paralyzed and a vertebra was crushed when he hit the water on his side.

So far, 50 to 60 Hungarian tourists have defected to the West in 1972, official sources said in Vienna. A customs official at the Nickelsdorf border checkpoint confirmed that on Sunday alone, 44 Hungarians were missing from four tourist buses reentering Hungary after visiting Austria. An air base to "be used strictly by Soviet MIG pilots is being built secretly near the Aswan Dam in Egypt against the threat of an Israeli attack, diplomatic sources said in London. The base is expected to be completed by the middle of this year, they said. The African National Council rejected the terms for a Rritish-Rhnfle-sian settlement, calling them a legalization of the white-minority government's unilateral declaration of independence from Britain in 1965.

The terms will be tested for. their acceptability by a British mission beginning next week. Eighty persons are believed to have drowned when a vessel owned by the ruler of Qatar was wrecked in a storm in the Persian Gulf, according to reports reaching Tehran. Two survivors reportedly swam 16 hours to reach the Iranian shore. The bodies of six victims were; washed ashore at Port Halleh, the ship's des-; tination.

Elderly persons in Buenos Aires were warned to eat less and drink more as deaths from causes related to a week-long heat wave rose -to 103. Temperatures were down slightly, with the high reaching 87. i -J- OA SPORTS Boris Spassky, the world chess champion from has his followers worried following his sixth place finish in a recent tournament his last before defending his title against America's Bobby Fischer. President Nixon phoned Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula at 1:30 a.m. Monday and gave him a tip on how to beat the Dallas Cowboys in the Super Bowl.

"The President said he thought the quick slant pass to Paul Warfield would go against Dallas," Shula said. The quarterbacking of Dallas' Roger Staubach and the coaching of Miami's Don Shula are said to be the keys to their teams' drive to a Super Bowl showdown at New Orleans, Jan. 16. thony Peter Serabia, one of seven defendants in the smuggling case, would be arraigned on the smug gling indictment and on a new indictment for jumping bail. He was held at the San Diego County jail.

Three of the defendants in the case are currently serving five-to eight-year terms in prison. Three others are still at large. Authorities said the smuggled cocaine had a retail value of more than $5 million, Police surrounded a "house in Highland Park and arrested a mur- der suspect who allegedly killed his grandfather during a family, quarrel Saturday. Frank Tripicchio, 71, of 3156 W. Ave.

32, was shot when he intervened in a fight between hi3 grandson Frank Tripicchio III, 27, and his girlfriend, Martha' Brady. Young Tripicchio. fled from the family but an, anonymous phone call led police to a vacant house at 2426 Riverside Drive where he was hiding. A Ft. MacArthur soldier whose Army detail helps provide security for President Nixon when he travels in the Southland, wag ordered Monday to stand, trial for.

allegedly selling explosives stolen from' the San Pedro military base. At the conclusion of the lengthy preliminary hearing, Municipal Judge Noel Cannon held Spec. 5 Michael Ohlman and three codefendants to answer on conspiracy and a variety of other charges in connection with selling and possessing destructive devices. They are scheduled for arraignment Jan. 17 in Superior Court.

Jan. 13 is the last day for Los Axir geles registered voters to file applications for absentee ballots for the Jan. 18 special municipal election, announced City Clerk Fyex E. Lay-ton. The lone ballot issue is a pro-Lay ton.

The lone ballot issue is a posed Charter amendment which would increase the bonding capacity of the Department of Water and Power by $140 million. Absentee ballots may be obtained by mail or at the city clerk's election division, Room 2300, City Hall. Written Civil Service examina tions for nearly 3,400 men who applied for 36 vacant positions as Los Angeles County firemen will be held at 10 a.m. Jan. 22 at East Los Angeles College, USC and Cal State L.A.

After he learns how many pass the written test with a grade of 70 or better, Superior Judge Robert A. Wenke will rule whether the county may use a lottery to reduce the number of these applicants to approxi-- mately 500 for final oral interviews. Wenke said he wanted to be sure enough pass the written test so that a lottery will be nondiscriminatory and reasonable. The federal district here was without a U.S; attorney because no one has been named to succeed Robert L. Meyer, whose resignation was effective Jan.

1. Thirteen judges-of the district court met for 45 minutes to consider appointment of aifc acting U.S. attorney but announced no action. The Nixon Administration reportedly is preparing to nom-. inate Los Angeles attorney William: D.

Keller for the post, but his name has not been submitted to the Senate. The California Legislature officially ended its 1971 regular session and, minutes later, convened its ses-. sion for 1972. (Part 1, Page 1.) All federal tax returns from California and Hawaii'will ultimately be processed by a new service center which the Internal Revenue Service opened in Fresno. For 1972, howev-, er, only taxpayers from Northern California and Hawaii' will send their returps to the new center.

Southern Californians will mail their returns as in the past to the service center in Ogden, Utah, and will switch to the Fresno center in 1973. The $14 million Fresno center anticipates work forces of 1.500 during the 1972 peak season and 3,500 during the 1973 rush. Teacher Armstrong has a goodby Another Giant Step Into Classroom "He was pretty nervous in his first class," said student David Burress. should really be a great course," added student Jack Lippert, because the teacher has flown every kind of aircraft we'll, be studying." Scoring another first was former astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, who as a new profes- sor in the College of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati had just taught his first class in aerospace engineering.

Donna Rachele Mussolini is suing the Italian government for an increase in her pension. She gets $258.40 a month but claims she is entitled to $387.60. The 81-year-old widow of the Fascist dictator runs a restaurant in Predap-pio, where the duce is buried. She charges that the higher pension is hers because of her husband's nearly 30 years of government service 20 years, and eight months as prime minister, eight years in the army and six months as a schoolteacher. THE NATION Missing Hiking Party search plane; flying Jow oyer Grand Teton Mountain, in Wyoming spotted Paul Petzoldt and his 25 companions carefully; working their way down the peak.

It was the first sighting since officials began searching Saturday. The mountain top. has been obscured by snow storms and fog and radio con- tact with the mountain climbing instructor and his party had failed. "I don't think they are in any trouble," said park official Dick Munro. "They have skis and snow shoes and lots of extra food," he said, and apparently weathered the storms in snow caves.

A government survey indicated that erroneous welfare payments were going to one-fourth of the nation's welfare families and to one-sixth of the aged, blind and disabled persons on the rolls. (Part 1, Page 1.) A three-alarm fire broke out at a Ralston-Purina mill on the Buffalo, N.Y., waterfront, the second major mill fire in two days. The new blaze erupted as firemen continued to hose down smoldering debris at the nearby Pillsbury Co. flour mill where one man died Sunday and two are missing. The crew of the Apollo 13 will make a seven-day visit to Poland later this month, American Embassy sources said in The three, David R.

Scott, Alfred M. Worden and James B. Irwin, -have been invited by the Polish Academy of Sciences. Sen. Hubert H.

Humphrey (D- Minn.) will "formally announce his bid for the Presidency next Monday in Philadelphia, his office said. Humphrey has said he plans to skip the nation's first primary, in New Hampshire, and has hinted he will make his initial bid for the Democratic nomination in the March 14 Florida primary. Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the militant Jewish Defense League, said his organization would campaign against New. York City Mayor John V. Lindsay's presidential bid in Florida's and Wisconsin's Democratic primaries.

He announced at a news conference the formation of. the Jewish Political Action Committee to "work to defeat" Lindsay. Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wis.) charged that the Interior Department weak-' ened environmental safeguards to be applied to the proposed Alaska oil pipeline. Aspin said a 48-page draft of environmental-stipulations and other documents he had obtained "prove conclusively that the In- for one of students after class.

Brazil's latest hero, and an inspiration for us all, is traveling salesman Amaro Batista dos San tos. He was in Recife, trying to get to sleep, but the noise made it impossible. Hedressed, went down stairs to the Tabaris night' club, took out his pistol and emptied it into the blaring juke box. Mortaljy wounded, it ground tp a halt. Next day Dos Santos had to face the music'again, but this time it had a sweeter, sound.5! "The defendant did what many people have felt impelled to do.

destroyed an infernal machine that was driving him mad," ruled the judge as he dismissed the case. A Russian medical, student who married an American coed last August missed the plane in Moscow that was to carry him to his wife in New York. Valery Kremniev, 22, said he was held up unexpectedly when he found he had $216 worth of excess baggage. "By the time I scraped up the money, the plane had already left," he said. But he will try again Wednesday.

Kremniev and his the former Deborah Brack-man, also 22, met in Leningrad while she was on a summer language program. By Jennings Parrott Spotted in Tetons terior Department has been acting as little more than' a subsidiary5 of the oil Interior -is expected to rule soon on the $2 billion pipeline permit, John Harlan, the former Supreme Court, justice who died last Wednesday, will be buried today near his summer home in Weston, Conn. Members of the court and former, colleagues are expected to attend the private services. Harlan retired last Sept. 23 in failing health after more than 16 years, on the court.

The wife of Jim Brown, former professional football player who turned movie actor, was granted a divorce in a. Cleveland court. Sue Brown had sited for divorce in August, 1968, on. grounds of extreme neglect of duty. Brown, 36, once a fullback for the Cleveland Browns, did not contest the suit.

A Circuit Court in Chicago refused to impose penalties on a Colorado couple held in contempt last week for failing to comply with a. court order to return their adopted child to her natural mother. The court has ordered Mr. and Mrs. Barry Huebert of Colorado Springs to return Amy, 2, to Mrs.

Paula Marshall of Arlington Heights, a Chicago suburb. The Hueberts have filed suit in Colorado to retain Amy and a hearing is scheduled for April 24. A Delta Air Lines plane contaminated by leakage of radioactive material made passenger flights into 11 cfties over the weekend, health and airlines officials said. (Part 1, Page 1.) An estimated 90 of the teachers in Yonkers, New York's fourth largest city, went on strike but all 43 schools remained open. A school spokesman said attendance was "pretty good" but a teachers' spokesman said no real education was going on.

The walkout came after contract negotiations over wages broke down. The current starting salary is $8,300 and the school board claims it has no money for a raise. A Vietnam veteran described as "very quiet" and "withdrawn" was charged in Dearborn Heights, with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a teen-age girl on New Year's Eve. said Robert A. Widgren, 26, followed a car with three girls as they returned from a party.

He forced their car to halt and then lashed out at them with a knife when they refused his order to disrobe, police said. Dead was Kathy Hannon; 18. Dennie Perrin, also 18, remained in critical condition with multiple stab wounds. j5 CL4 rt, I -j 1 OS, 'tllS 1 if' jr Wml -riff I J. i IT'S COLD President Nixon braces against the harsh wind as he.

is escorted from plane on arrival at El Toro Marine air station, stwy in Part page i. 11 Times photo by Deris Jeannette FACE EXTINCTION A pair of rare and endangered black-footed ferrets peer from a prairie dog hole near White River, S.D., in photo released by Interior Efforts to save the ani mal were set back by death of four females in captivity. Itorv In Part 1, Page i in Wlrephoto THE STATE Younger Contests Brown's Reapportion Suit BUSINESS The United States and Japan formally signed a three-year agreement under which Japan will limit exports of wool and man-made fiber textiles to the American market. Stock market prices turned in a lackluster performance, giving up all of an early gain and drifting lower in moderate trading. The Dow Jones industrial average closed off 0.90 at 887.30.

Signal Oil Gas the Los Angeles-based unit of Signal Companies is apparently planning to move its headquarters to Houston. The United States favors reshaping the Group of Ten to include a representative from the developing countries, government officials Atty. Gen. Evelle J. Younger, a Republican, filed a memorandum with the state Supreme Court opposing a reapportionment suit filed by Secretary of State Edmund G.

Brown a Democrat: Brown's suit asks the court to order implementation of the Legislature's Democratic-sponsored redistricting plan or to impose its own version. Younger argued that Brown seeks "to have the court perform what is essentially a legislative act." Brown has urged the court to approve the plan before Jan. 15, predicting "massive chaos and confusion" in the June 6 primary election unless county clerks could start organizing election machinery by then..