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(DitcMO (Tribune Wednesday, August 5, 1931 24 urn Today briefing is a' digest from The Tribune's local, national, and foreign staff, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, the New York Times. Knight-Ridder Newspapers, and the New York News. Peopl Metropolitan Nation Showdown in air strike 1 i a I 1 i 1 -jr ft t'Cf fit' Pip. WASHINGTON The 13,000 striking air traffic controllers, showing no signs so far of knuckling under to huge fines and mounting government pressure, could lose their jobs at 10 a.m. Chicago time Wednesday if they don't heed President Reagan's deadline for ending their two-day-old illegal walkout.

The Reagan administration said it was preparing dismissal notices and was ready to train new controllers to nan the nation's airport towers. Page I A RANDOM CHECK of seats aboard flights from O'Hare International Airport Tuesday showed plenty of room aboard practically any plane bound practically anywhere, despite the strike by air traffic controllers. Page IS LOS ANGELES Sen. S.I. Hayakawa on Tuesday called the forced internment of some 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II "a three-year vacation from work" and said it is historically dishonest for some Japanese-Americans to equate the action of the U.S.

government 40 years ago with the genocidal policies of Nazis against Jews. Hayakawa, a Canadian-born Japanese, made his remarks before the Congressional Com-' mission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Page 2 WASHINGTON The House gave final approval Tuesday to President Reagan's tax-cut plan after a brief delay over the provision giving tax breaks for the oil industry. The plan, already approved by the Senate, was sent to Reagan's desk for his signature. Over the urging of Rep.

James Shannon who sought a separate vote on the $12 billion the bill would give to the oil industry through 1986, the House approved the total package 282-95. Pages WASHINGTON Defense spending probably will have to be cut next year if the administration's promises to balance the budget in 1984 are to be realized, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee warned Tuesday. Sen. Pete Domenici N.M.) said the cuts will have to come despite President Reagan's promise to increase defense spending by $90 billion between now and 1984. Page 4 Vi' r.W AP Laserphoto A talent for smiling is shown Jean Pierre Aumont and Claudette Colbert, who took a break from rehearsing "A Talent for Murder" in New York for a photography session.

The mystery-comedy is due to open at the Kennedy Center in Washington Sept. 1 and in New York Oct. 1. i UPI Telephoto Theresa Connor, 20, of Mundelein, Miss Illinois County Fair, tries on a hat at one of the stands as the Illinois State Fair began gearing up for its 1 1 -day run that begins Thursday in Springfield. NEW YORK Actor Melvyn Douglas, 80, whose 50-year career included an Academy Award, an Emmy, and a reputation as an outspoken liberal, died Tuesday of pneumonia.

Two of his most famous roles were in the 1979 "Being There," for which he won an Oscar, and "I Never Sang for My Father." Sec. 4, p. 7 by a turbulent convulsion stemming from the 4-month-old bullet wound in his brain, had more "mild body seizures" Tuesday, but doctors said his vital signs remained stable. Brady was despite the new complications, including some leakage of spinal fluid from his physicians said. Dr.

Dennis spokesman for George Washington Hospital, said no infection was found in Brady and "there is no cause for great panic." Page 5 Byrne drops. $1.6 million MAYOR BYRNE spent a record million in campaign funds to year including $74,000 in 'fidvUftry'' fees paid to her husband, Jay McMulieny and $109,646 for junkets according' to 4" report made public-Tuesda'jv former newspaper-reporterytjow niakes more than the mayor, whose" an nual sal- ary is $60,000, nt Gov, Thompson, whose salary: Mrs. Byqie has spent more S3 million from' the campaign. Page 1 'i Hti Kjn THE transfer of a veteran police involved in a dispute "with 1 hjst'district commander after the ''arfesf of the son of Park District Supt. Edmund L.

Kelly, has been rescinded, Police Supt. Richard J. Brzeczek said Tuesday. Brzeczek said he has overturned the controversial transfer of Lt. Crossett Lee Hamilton, 41, and ordered that he be reassigned to the Rogers Park District, on the Far North Side, Brzeczek-also reprimanded Chief of Patrol Fred Rice for approving the transfer of Hamil- ton to the Deering District, on the South Side, in violation of department policy.

Page 1 MAYOR BYRNE on Tuesday announced a three-part program aimed at luring high-technology companies to Chicago and at garnering federal contracts for local small businesses. Mrs. Byrne said the city is forming a task force to. study such proposals as using city-owned land for a research park and designating special zones for high-technology companies. In addition, the city will establish a federal procurement division in its Purchasing Department and will sponsor a meeting between a delegation of local small businessmen and federal officials in Washington, she said.

Page 3 REVENUES AT the city-owned parking garage at 506 N. Rush St. increased 23 per cent last month after new manage-' ment, Warshauer Parking was, hired to operate it, city records show. July revenues at the 870-car garage totaled $79,000, compared with $64,000 in July, 1980, when another firm operated it. City officials said that if automated equipment installed by Warshauer in the garage were placed in downtown garages, city revenues could be increased by $1 million a year.

Page 3 THE CITY IS considering easing a nine-year ban on new construction of commercial auto parking lots and garages in the Loop. Dennis Harder, assistant, city planning commissioner, said Mayor Byrne proposed an amendment to the that would allow new parking garages and lots but only after a public hearing. Page 3 A FORMER Eastern Airlines pilot and decorated Viet Nam war veteran who was fired after undergoing a sex-change operation filed suit in United States District Court Tuesday, seeking $4 million in damages and reinstatement. The former pilot, Karen F. Ulane, contends she was fired in violation of her constitutional rights because she is a transsexual.

Page 2 MEETINGS AIMED at ending the 16-' day strike that has crippled Chicago area construction will be held Friday between the operating engineers and major build-' ing contractors, it was learned Tuesday. Meanwhile, a walkout by members of Local 520 of the Operating Engineers Union has halted construction on the billion-dollar Alton Lock and Dam 26 and other southern Illinois projects. Page 6 FEDERAL OFFICIALS were attempting Tuesday to determine the cause of the weekend crash of a small plane shortly after take-off from a rural airport in northwestern Missouri. Killed in the crash were Scott Francis, 20, of 7633 Davis in Morton Grove, the pilot of the plane; Allan S. Piatt, 22, of 7937 Arcadia Morton Grove; and two Missouri women.

TWO CHICAGO men, John Szostek, 30, and Victor Skrobacz, 18, were charged with armed robbery and Peter Bianco, 42, of Glenview, was charged with receiving stolen property Tuesday in connection with the holdup of $100,000 in rare gold coins last Friday from a suburban Niles coin shop. Weather CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Wednes- Humid, chance of afternoon thunderstorms; high 85 to 88 (29 to 31 C). Wednesday night: Showers or thunderstorms likely; low 65 to 68 (18 to 20 C). Thursday: Showers and thunderstorms likely; high 80 (27 C). WASHINGTON White House Press Secretary James Brady, shaken Monday Begin forms hawkish ruling coalition World WASHINGTON President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, ready to open his first talks with Ronald Reagan, is bearing a proposal that the new American President would rather not hear that the United States offer the Palestinians a direct role in the quest for peace in the Mideast.

Sadat arrived Tuesday night to start a five-day visit. Page 3 You can count on your friendly hotel man in a pinch. The Ambassador East, during this time of travelers' travail caused by those striking air controllers, has advised that its concierge is putting in lots of overtime to help guests make alternate travel plans, arrange dinner, or even arrange entertainment. Not enough? General manager Jephson Hilary is hosting a cocktail party on his apartment ter-' race each evening at 5 for the duration of this inconvenience. But you have to bring your room key to show you're really a guest.

And Channel 5's weatherman-pilot Jim Tilmon told listeners Monday that there may be a strike on, but he still heard familiar controllers on his headset while flying to points east the other morning. He also says he Chinks it's still safe to fly. From Hollywood comes good news. Most rock music stars accustomed to flying to concerts were unaffected by the controllers' strike, except for one Peter Framp-ton, who suffered the inconvenience of going by train from Philadelphia to Toronto. It seems, say reports, that the only ones out there having problems are so-called mid-range acts those folks who can fly between bookings but are otherwise too poor to charter planes or buses.

Meanwhile, "I'm going to show them what I can do," says Richard Simmons, a former chubby who's a current TV host, current author, current physical fitness expert. Simmons arrives Saturday for the Chicago Sports, Health Fitness Show, which starts up without him Wednesday at the O'Hare Expo Center. He'll show visitors how motivation and exercise can shed those miserable pounds. "The first syllable of the word diet is die," he says. Nevertheless, no- one need fear him or even feel self-conscious.

"It's very noisy so you can't hear the fat fall off." 'JERUSALEM After five weeks of fierce political horsetrading, Prime Minister Menachem Begin announced a new government Tuesday. Begin signed a coalition agreement with three small religious parties that pledged to claim Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip after five years. It also calls for tougher laws enforcing orthodox Jewish religious policies. Page 1 SYDNEY, Australia Rescue workers pulled a 2-year-old boy to safety from a narrow well early Wednesday after inflating a helium balloon underneath him to prevent him from slipping farther down the shaft. The child, William Farr, fell into the foot-wide shaft about eight hours earlier while walking with his father on their property at Ourimbah, 62 miles north of Sydney.

Pagel WARSAW Bus drivers and truckers blocked Warsaw's biggest intersection for the second day Tuesday in a showdown with the government over meat ration cuts. More than 100,000 workers in two other cities shut factories and demanded more food. Meanwhile, Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski appointed an "anti-crisis staff" empowered to make swift decisions on distributing food and raw materials. Page 2 BELFAST Hunger striker Kieran Doherty, 25, given a final salute by Irish Republican Army riflemen, was buried Tuesday alongside two other guerrillas who fasted to death in Northern Ireland's Maze Prison. Fifty miles west of here, meanwhile, one of the IRA's latest victims was buried.

Two thousand Protestants attended the funeral in Omagh of John Smyth, one of two policemen killed in an IRA landmine ambush Sunday, the day Doherty died. Page 2 GUATEMALA CITY Three "common criminals" have been charged with kit-, ling an American priest a week police said Tuesday. Police said the three admitted killing the Rev. Francis Stanley Rother, 56, of Okarche, when they tried to rob his church in the western town of Santiago Atitlan. The slaying originally was blamed on the political violence racking Guatemala, where thousands have been killed in a war among leftist guerrillas, government troops, and rightist death squads.

Page 3 the accessories and add the long train the Princess wore, the drawing could have been a very early draft of it." Which brings us to another denial. Not 24 hours after word arrived that the House of Windsor was buying a $5-million, 21-room high-rise flat in New York, the people of Buckingham Palace have spoken: "There is no truth at all in', this story." And then there is August Holtz. All fixed up in a flowered, peach-colored dress, she turned 110 years old Monday down in Florissant, Mo. She was entertained by clowns and said she thought she got more attention than Lady Di, well-known bride. Her secret to surviving all these long years: "Just keep having birthdays." This lady definitely knows something.

Predictably, the results of one of those dog-days-what-do-we-do-now-for-news stories have arrived. Our President's former leading ladies have sized up their former leading man for People magazine. "An ardent Democrat," says Dorothy Malone. A "very good film actor," says Patricia Neal. "Ronnie talks an awful lot," says Laraine Day.

In other People news: Henry Kissinger had lunch this week with French President Francois Mitterand at Mitterand's country estate. What they talked about was not revealed, nor even what was on the menu. The death of writer Paddy Chayefsky brought eight testimonials to the death notice column in the New York Times. Among them: "The Russian Team Room will miss a very special friend." Fugitive financier Robert Ves-co, ousted from the Bahamas, is said to be in the Turks and Caicos Islands waiting for things to cool down. Vernon Dalhart, Little Jimmy Dickens, Lefty Frizzell, Floyd Tillman, and announcer Grant Turner have been nominated for spots in the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Finally, that other problem of Wayne Gregory, 27, serving eight years in the Denver County Jail for hiring a hit man in an unsuccessful assassination attempt on his girlfriend, has been resolved. His "physical and psychological well-being" should remain intact, said the court, having ordered an expert to visit Wayne every two months "for the purpose of tightening his And the whole time, Wayne's fellow cons believed Wayne's hair was Wayne's hair. Bill Plunkett If" if U'Trl 14rll '17 if Ji .7 i Well, you now know The Dress wasn't The Dress at all, even though Women's Wear Daily had a (drawing and. hinted very seriously at a scoop: WWD reveals Lady Di's wedding design. And didn't gullible newshounds everywhere believe in them? After all, it was WWD talking, wasn't it? WWD was talking further this week, having noticed the embarrassing fallout in the fashion world.

"We never really that this was The Dress," said Michael Coady. Whah? "John Falrchild, our publisher, thought it was a hoax all along. And if you take off the overslip and Sports L. 1 1, i imii UPI Tdaphoto A masked honor guard fires a volley of shots over the Doherty died Sunday after fasting for 73 days at Maze' coffin of Kieran Doherty at his funeral in Belfast Tuesday. Prison.

He was the eighth hunger striker to perish. I i i I HERMAN Business Almanac On this date 1835, an ordinance was passed outlawing as a fire hazard the stacking of feed hay In the downtown Chicago area, In 1858, the first trans-Atlantic cable was completed. In 1861, the federal government levied an income tax for the first time. In 1884, the cornerstone of the Statue of Liberty was laid at the entrance to New York Harbor. In 1930, astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio.

In 1919, an earthquake in Ecuador killed 6,000 people. In 1953, the United Nations Command in Korea began an exchange of prisoners with North Korea and China, In 1962, movie star Marilyn Monroe was found dead in the bedroom of her Los Angeles home. THE WHITE SOX SPENT most of the time before Tuesday night's intrasquad game in Comiskey Park congratulating catcher Carlton Fisk on his selection to the American League All-Stars' starting lineup. But once the action began, ager Tony LaRussa, his coaches, and most of the 3,121 on hand zeroed In on the mound, They weren't disappointed. After Dennis Lamp gave up a run in the first inning, neither team could score, and the Blue team won l-o in seven innings.

i Sec- 1 THE FINANCIAL problems of the Chicago Horizons finally caught up with the Major Indoor' Soccer League franchise. The league disbanded the club Tuesday, permitting the players to become free agents. 1 Sec.4, p. 1 THE BEARS cut tight end Greg Latta, but claimed two wide receivers cut by other teams in an effort to find the right targets tor quarterback Vlnce Evans. The new bodies are Evanston's Emery Moorehead, cut by the Denver Broncos, and Tom Donovan, cut by the New York Giants.

Sec. 4, p. Dow Jones Average Stock market at a glance E.I. Du PONT de Nemours Co. emerged as the apparent victor in the bidding war for Conoco, although its offering price was $1.5 billion less than bid by Mobil Corp.

Late Tuesday, Mobil lost Its eleventh-hour legal appeal seeking to block du Pont's purchase of tendered Conoco shares. Sec. 3, p. 1 THE STOCK MARKET gave ground In early trading Tuesday, but recovered near the close to finish mixed. The Dow Jones industrial average was off .28 at 945.97.

Sec. 3, p. 1 PABST BREWING CO. offerd to buy Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co.

for $5H8 million In cash and securities. The Pabst bid Neil Armstrong came little' more than a week, after Schlitz agreed In principle to an offer from G.Heileman involving $494 million in cash and securities. Sec. 3, p. 1 In 1963, the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union signed a treaty outlawing nuclear tests In the atmosphere, in space, rind under water, In 1974, President Richard Nixon admitted he had ordered a halt to the Investigation of the Watergate break-in six days after it came to light.

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