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Daily News from New York, New York • 5

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DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11,, 1974 5 By MARCIA KRAMER and PAUL MESKIL In an unprecedented order that could encourage many Vietnam war resisters and deserters to come home, a Brooklyn federal judge appointed a defense counsel yesterday for 26 fugitives from the draft. Judge Jack B. Weinstein took N.J. Daily Lottery Winner Tuesday: 85750 The prizes: $10,000 if your ticket matches tha winning number. $1,000 if the five digits are right, but in reverse order.

Also $225 if either the last four or the first four match. $25 if tha first, middle or last three match. "The defendants had been indicted but the prosecutions have not gone forward because te defendants are allegedly fugitives. As a result of teir status, no defense counsel has been representing them. In view of current events, this lack of legal representation may prejudice their positions." When a person is indicted for draft evasion and fails to appear for a court hearing, he is declared a fugitive.

Federal prosecutors have taken the position that fugitives have no legal right in court until they appear there. The cases of fugitive draft evaders are reviewed each year but are not brought to trial while the defendants are missingl. All 26 are from the Eastern District of New York, which includes Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Nassau and Suffolk counties. They represent all the draft-fugitive cases now pending in Weinstein's court. U.S.

Attorney David G. Trager said the judge's order seemed to him "like an invitation to the draft dodgers to return home." Trager added that, as far as he knew, this wa3 the first decision of its kind in the nation. Weinstein directed Luskv to official notice of the fact that President Ford and Congress "are considering1 some form of amnesty that may affect the rights of these defendants and thousands of others who are similarly situated." Weinstein appointed Prof. Louis Lusky of Columbia University Law School to protect the constitutional rights of the 26 defendants, all but one of whom are from the Vietnam war era. The lone exception has been sought as a draft fugitive since 1954.

Sept. 20, for formal appointment as defense counsel. He also directed Trager's office to mail copies of the court order to each defendant at his last known address. In his decision, Weinstein said: Jack B. Weinstein He notlc appear before him on Friday, By ELEANOR SWERTLOW A 23-year-old Bronx mother who was twice treated but denied admission to Jacobi Hospital during the weekend died within a half hour of her second hospital visit, y'l II xl JV jc-f i I a rJ ill rs it was disclosed yesterday.

inr ii. i ,,,1,,,,, 1 Type of double-decker bus that will see service here next summer. We II ioli Hosfalgia km The woman, Mrs. Norma Castro of 1730 Watson was diagnosed on both occasions as having an infection brought on by the presence of an intrauterine device, a contraceptive. She was sent home with a prescription for a pain killer.

Within moments of arriving home, Mrs. Castro was dead, her husband, Rafael Castro, a maintenance man with the New York City Housing Authority, told The News. Dr. Sheldon Jacobson, director of emergency services for Jacobi, said yesterday that, "based on the information we have, I can't see at this time what was done wrong In diagnosing Mrs. Castro.

She was thoroughly evaluated twice by very good people who made their best diagnosis to the best of their ability. "We stand on what was done at that time," he said. According to Dr. DonalJ Jason of the medical examiner's office, who performed the autopsy, the cause of death "had nothing to do with the IUD (an intrauterine device), I'm sure of that." He reported that five pints of blood were found in the woman's peritoneal cavity beneath the stomach wall and that the cause of death had been "internal hemorrhaging." "They were wrong as far as their diagnosis," said Jason. He said it was a "mystery" how the Great O1 2-Deck Buses in Comeback By ARTHUR MULLIGAN Those double-decker buses, once the delight of sightseers and upper-deck, back-seat spooners, will once again grace the streets of New York next summer.

The nostalgic news came yesterday from David L. Yunich, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, who said that he had placed an order with a British manufacturer for eight of the mobile monsters to be delivered in July. The new, air-conditioned DDs will be ultramodern versions of the so-called Queen Mary models that traveled Fifth Ave. and Riverside Drive, to the enjoyment of New Yorkers and out-of-towners, before they were discontinued in 1953. The buses will seat 68 and carry 25 standees, compared to the conventional buses now in use, which seat 43 riders and carry as many standees as can push aboard.

If the buses prove practical, more will be forthcoming later. The orders were placed with British Ley-land Motors at a cost of $83,500 per vehicle, through a federal grant and funds from the 1967 Transportation Bond Issue. British Leyland will modify them with left-hand drives and the MTA is hopeful that some American manufacturer will be found to mass produce later versions. blood had got into the woman's stomach and that the medica' examiners office was still working to determine what caused it. According to Jacobson, llrs.

Castro was fitted for the intrauterine device at Jacobi on Aug. 29. From the time of the insertion she complained of abdominal pains, her husband reported. At 12:50 p.m. Saturday, according to hospital records, Mrs.

Castro was seen by a "board-certified internist," He diagnosed the problem as an infection brought on by the IUD. By telephone, the doctor conferred with a hospital gynecologist, who concurred with the diagnosis. An appointment was made to have the coil removed today and Mrs. Castro, according to her husband, was given pills for the infection and the pain. At about 10 p.m.

Saturday, after a fitful day for Mrs. Castro, the couple retired for the night. Mrs. Castro's repeated groans alarmed her husband and he called the police and an ambulance. Returns to Hospital According to hospital records, the Castros returned to the emergency room at 2:44 Sunday morning.

She was seen by cna of the "house doctors" in the emergency room. "He went through a complete evaluation," said Jacobson. According to Jacobsen, the IUD was removed and in injection of ampicillin, an antibiotic, was administered. According to Castro, she was also given a prescription for codeine, a pain killer. The prescription was signed by the attending doctor, R.H.

Goslin. Mrs. Castro, was instructed to return home, but her husband she vomited and her eyes rolled back into her head an he did not feel she was well enough. He told this to the doctor but was told "ther were no beds," Castro reported. "Then, in a roundabout way, the doctor said: 'She's faking it, she- was overdoing it.

I should cell a psychiatrist to see if she's bluffing or not'," Castro said. When Castro got his wife home and put her on a bed, she stopped breathing, he said. He gave moth-to-mouth resuscitation and called an ambulance, which took an hour arrive, he said. At 6:45 a.m., according to hospital records, Mrs. Castro reached the hospital, "essentially dead on arrival," said Jacobson.

Will mmesh to Vote at 100 admitted that once she had crossed the party line. She voted for Richard Nixon in 1972. "I was jaybird enough to vote for him and I've regretted it ever since," she declared. She said she liked all the Democrats she had ever voted for, including Al Smith and Franklin Roosevelt and Jimmy Walker whom she described as "a little dandy." 'Sorry He Wasn't a Democrat' Asked if she thought there were any good Republicans, Mrs. Wallace thought for a minute, then said, "Bisenhower was a good man.

I'm sorry he wasn't a Democrat." Mrs. Wallace, a retired schoolteacher whose only family is a niece who lives in Manhattan, was escorted to the polls by Queens Boroufh President Donald Manes. When she came out of the voting booth, a reporter asked her if she had any advice for the young people. "The most important thing you can do is to i vote." She said. By BERNARD RABIN and JEAN CRAFTON Anna Wallace of 142-20 Sanford Flushing, got into her wheelchair yesterday and went across the streets to PS 20 to vote as she has done in every Democratic primary and regular election since she voted the Cox-Roosevelt ticket back in 1920.

What makes that record really remarkable is that Mrs. Wallace will be 100 years old on Sept. 24. "I've been a registered Democrat all my life and hope to stay that way for the rest of my life," the sprightly lady said, her eyes atwinkle after she cast her vote for Hugh Carey. Tickled to Death' With Vof She talked about the good old days back when she used to be active in the suffrage movement and recalled how all women were "tickled 'to death" at being allowed to vote in 1920.

"I've never missed voting in a primary of a general election since then," Mrs. Wallace said proudly. Then, just a little shamefaced, she News pnoro oy Nick Sorrentino Anna Wallace is escorted to poll booth by Queens Borough President Donald Manes..

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