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Es cauee-Bank Robber Parris Seized. Qf fr of the Citizens Bank and Trust Co. at Charlotte N.C. At the time of his escape here, Parris was under sentences totaling 68 years in Fulton and Clayton Counties on robbery charges. Police said he was arrested last fall in a series of drug store and jewelry store robberies over the metropolitan area, Parris had been sentenced to serve 48 years in Fulton Superior Court, 20 years in Clayton Superior Court and still was awaiting trial in Cobb and DeKalb counties, officers said.

Officers said the prisoner was brought in a prison truck from the Fulton County jail to the courthouse March 28 to be questioned by Hewatt. Hewatt said he picked up the prisoner at the courthouse detention room and after they reached Hewatt's office on the third floor of the courthouse, Parris drew a gun, forced Hewatt to unlock his handcuffs and took Hewatt's service revolver. Parris handcuffed the investigator and fled after warning Hewatt that a secretary in the front office would be shot if Hewatt raised an outcry. Police said Parris also was wanted for questioning in the knife slaying of Bryan Gerald Haynes, 34, of 5320 Roswell Road NW, whose body was found six weeks ago stuffed down an abandoned well in North Fulton County. Apparently Haynes was killed because he was thought to have been an informer, officers said.

Slaton, a man identified as Parris robbed the Mercantile National Bank at 70 Broad St. NW. Police said Parris returned to the same bank March 29, the following day, and robbed it again. In leaving, officers said the bandit told a teller: "I'm the same bastard that robbed you yesterday and I'll be back tomorrow." Police and FBI agents posted a heavy guard over the bank, but the robber failed to make good his promise to return. The FBI and Atlanta detectives said Parris was identified as a suspect in the June 8 holdup of the First Georgia Bank at 127 Peachtnie St.

The FBI also said he had been charged with a holdup By KEELER MCCARTNEY Charles William "Sonny" Parris, 41, wanted on a series of four bank robberies following his escape March 23 from a Fulton county investigator, was arrested Fr day at Louisville, the FBI said. Thomas W. Kitchens special agent in charge of the FBI in Louisville, said Billie Dye, 25, a native of Nashville, also was arrested and was charged with harboring a federal fugitive. Parris had been the subject of an intense search by authorities since his March escape. Within minutes after escaping from Henry He-watt, an investigator for District Attorney Lewis FINALLY ARRESTED Charles Parris THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION For 04 Years the South' Standard Newspaper P.O.

Box 4689 ATLANTA, GA. 30302, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1972 76 PAGES, 4 SECTIONS TEN CENTS VOL. 105, No. 23 PROTESTING VETS NEWS THIS MORNING 6 Indicted In lami July 15, 1972 GOOD MORNING! Partly cloudy skies with scattered afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms are forecast for Georgia through Sunday. Highs Saturday and Sunday should be in the upper 80s in north Georgia and lower 90s in the south.

Nightly lows should be in the mid 60s. Riot i rlo Associated Press Photo NOMINEE LEAVES MIAMI Boards Plauc for Washington DEMOCRATS' Sen. McGovern PRESIDENTIAL of South Dakota WORLD REYKJAVIK Bobby Fischer charged Friday that organizers of his heralded chess tournament with Boris Spas-sky seemed to "upset and provoke" him deliberately. An appeals committee rejected his request to replay the game he forfeited Thursday. Page 2-A.

SAIGOxN A 24-year-old French photographer walked out of the jungle about 75 miles northwest of Saigon Thursday. Friday he told the story of 97 days of captivity by the Communists. Page 7-A. BELFAST Violence mounted to a new peak Friday in Northern Ireland. Rockets were fired by the guerrillas for the first time.

Eight deaths were reported. Page 14-A. SAIGON Severe fighting raged around Quang Tri Friday. South Vietnamese troops advancing from the northeast were reported within 500 yards of the provincial capital. The chief of staff of the advancing troops was killed in a helicopter crash.

Page 6-C. WASHINGTON The Federal Aviation Administration has asked the airlines for new measures to prevent weapons from being smuggled aboard airplanes where they can be used in hijackings or extortion schemes. One step would be to search all carry-on luggage. Some airlines are complying. Page 2-A.

PARTY CHAIRMAN McGovern Picks wood West Jean is i Associated Press Plioto NATION LEMON GROVE, Calif. A top official of the National American Party said Friday there was "a good chance" Alabama Gov. George Wallace would accept the party's presidential nomination early next month. Page 6-A. LAKE JUNALUSKA, N.C.

For the first time in more than 50 years, a south Georgia minister has been elected a bishop. He is Rev. Frank L. Robertson, pastor of Valdos-ta's First United Methodist Church. Page 12-C.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. Family members planned a private funeral for the father of Lt. William Calley. Page 12-A. By BOB HURT Constitution IVashiiiclon Bureau WASHINGTON A federal grand jury in Florida Friday indicted six members of a Vietnam veterans anti-war group for plotting to wreck the city of Miami Beach in combat-style attacks with machine guns, fire bombs and cross bows during the Republican National Convention next month.

The Tallahassee grand jury alleged that the anti-war activists conspired to start riots and attack individuals, police, police stations and stores. The indictments do not specifically mention the GOP convention as the target of the violence but say that the attacks were to take place "on various dates between Aug. 21 and Aug. 24." the dates when the Republicans will meet to nominate President Nixcn for reelection. The charges draw a bizarre picture of organized "fire teams" launching assaults in a carefully arranged attack plan throughout the convention city.

A "fire team" is a small infantry unit of about a half dozen men. The defendants planned to make their general assaults with "automatic weapons fire and incendiary devices" and shoot "lead weights, 'fried' marbles, ball bearings, 'cherry bombs' and smoke bombs at police by means of wrist rocket slingshots and cross bows," the indictments charge. The men were also charged with planning to "disrupt communications systems in Miami Beach" and were said totiave posted their targets on a map of Dade County. Accused of conspiracy to commit the illegal acts were six members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) including the group's Florida chairman Scott Camil. Camil was indicted on two counts of manufacturing destructive devices and instructing others in their use.

Indicted on conspiracy to cause riots and other illegal acts were John W. Kniffin of Austin, William J. Patterson of EI Paso, Peter P. Mahoney of New York, Alton C. Foss of Hialeah.

and Donald P. Perdue of Gainesville, Fla. The indictments charge that Camil met on May 27 with two other defendants and a third man and taught them how to make and use incendiary devices capable of killing people. They were to be used in a civil disorder. All six men were indicted for meeting in April to conspire to launch the attacks in Miami Beach.

The indictments said they crossed state lines to attend the meeting. Camil is alleged to have secured eight cases of "wrist rocket slingshots" for the attack and Kniffin was charged with teaching Sec INDICT, Page 13-A 1 I It By MILO DAKIN C'oiislilution Stuff Writer MIAMI BEACH Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern Friday broke with tradition by naming a woman to become the party's national chairman. But after Mrs. Jean Westwood, 48, was unanimously approved to head the Democratic National Committee, committee members slapped down McGovern's nominee for the party's second-in-command. Pierre Salinger, former press aide to the late President John F.

Kennedy, bowed out xi contention after a little-known black Democrat from New York, Basil Paterson, was nominated from the committee floor. Paterson's nomination caught McGovern backers by surprise and shattered, at least momentarily, the feeling that McGovern had managed to unify party leadership during the week-long convention. Mrs. Westwood, 48, of West Jordan, Utah, helped manage McGovern's campaign. She succeeds Lawrence O'Brien, who declined McGovern's requests to remain as Democratic national chairman.

The selection of Mrs. Westwood began McGovern's reshaping of Democratic party machinery for his campaign against President Nixon. She is the first woman of either major party to head a national committee. Paterson is a national committee member and was an unsuccessful Demoratic candidate for lieutenant governor of New York in 1970. He was nominated by Fayette, Mayor Charles Evers, who chastised McGovern to adhere to new party rules calling for greater participation of blacks as well as women in Democratic party machinery.

McGovern, in one of his last appearances before leaving for a rest and campaign strategy sessions in the Black Hills of his home See DEMOCRATS, Page 13-A GEORGIA SEVERAL directors of the Georgia Travel Commission said Friday they knew nothing of the commission's announced endorsement of a candidate for the Public Service Commission. Page 6-C. AMERICUS A federal judge has rejected legal efforts by Gov. Jimmy Carter and 44 other Sumter countians who wanted the county's present school board abolished and a new one elected. Page 6-C.

ATLANTA The United Appeal and the Community Chest which have raised and distributed money for the needy in the Atlanta area for many years were abolished Friday. Tak PLACED ON LEAVE William T. Riley AEC Chief Of Security Suspended WASHINGTON iAP) The Atomic Energy Commission reported Friday its director of security has been placed on leave without pay" pending the outcome of an investigation of allegations he borrowed more than $100,000 from other AEC employes and hasn't paid it back. The official, the AEC said, is William T. Riley, 52.

an employe of the commission since its inception 25 years ago, and since 1967 over-all chief of security for AEC's far-flung installations, including protection of secret documents. He served as an Army counter-intelligence man in World War II. But an AEC spokesman volunteered the comment that "there is no indication that any security matters are involved'' in the current situation involving Riley. As boss of security, Riley has been directly or indirectly responsible for the physical security of weapons-making and other military and peaceful-uses atomic installations of the AEC stretching from its headquarters in the nation's capital to its stand-by nuclear weapons test facility at Eniwetok in the Pacific. The job also encompasses responsibility for ''personnel security" including clearances to work for AEC's thousands of employes and those employed by contractors.

And a spokesman said in answer to questions this latter phase would also include responsibility for protecting the AEC from sabotage. The commission disclosed, through a spokesman, that on June 14, Riley was "placed on leave without pay pending resolution of some allegations concerning his personal financial affairs." The allegations, the spokesman said, to the borrowing of money from other AEC employes i and i indications are that it's in excess of $100,000." In answer to questions, the spokesman said the allegations had been "reportedly internally," but that he did not know inyjjedl-Stely who had reported them. ing their place was a new agency the United Way. Page 3-A. THE VICTORS FACE RFK McGovern (Left), Eagleton Convention YYrapiip It's over but it has really just begun.

The Democrats, news media and demonstrators streamed out of Miami Beach Friday each with a promise. The demonstrators and news media promised to be back for the GOP convention next month. The Democrats promised a victory party in November. The Constitution wraps up its convention coverage on Pages 4, 6, 10-A and 3-B. I I OKS POLICE CHIEF John ffMjfo2xN Inman Fridav Pr0mted Sgt.

lUL 111 II Maurice C. Faulkner to act TTie United Wfey ing lieutenant. Faulkner was acquitted this week of burglary charges in a trial which Inman said was instigated for political reasons. Page 5-A. THIS MORNING, not long before the body of the venerable and virile lion named Frasier is interred on a California hilltop, two of his Backing Nixon, Connally Says FUND-RAISERS UNITE.

New Group's Symbol offspring will arrive at AUan- ta's airport. They are being sent to the new Lion Country Safari in Henry County to perpetuate Frasier's race. Page 2-A. INDEX "I haven't closed any doors and I don't want to," Connally said, adding that "I don't think it will be offered." Talking with newsmen on the lawn at Nixon's ocean-front home, Connally said he would remain a Democrat but would "do even thing in my power" in the weeks and months ahead to encourage Democrats to defect to Nixon in the general election. The silver-haired former Texas governor came to the Western White House to brief Nixon on a 35-day, 15-nation around-the-world tour he took at Nixon's request after resigning from his cabinet post.

mind for Connally. Actually. Connally said, "we talked about three different assignments." The assignments. Connally added, are "not anything earthshaking." He ruled out a role for himself in the Vietnam peace talks and in negotiations of a nuclear arms treaty with the Soviet Union. From the tone of Connaliy's comment, it was clear much of his session with Nixon dealt with politics and Nixon's reelection campaign.

Responding to a question. Connally said. "I will not support" the Democratic ticket SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) Former Treasury Secretary John Connally said Friday he will not support Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern but rather will work to enlist Democrats in President Nixon's reelection drive. The man ho until two months ago was the only Democrat in Nixon's cabinet accused McGovern of sab3taging the President's Vietnam peace efforts and sharply criticized other McGovern positions as "radical in character." As he emerged from a three-hour meeting with Nixon, Connally again left open the possibility he would accept, any offer to be Nixon's vice presidential ruiung mate.

Movies. Amusements Sec. Reg. Murphy 4-A Sports 1-C Star Gazer 4-B Television Sec. Want Ads 6-B Business, Industry 8-C Comics, Jumble 4-B Crossword Puzzle 4-B Dear Abby 2-B Deaths 5-B Editorials 4-A Jesse Outlar 1-C Women, Family 2-B He said they discussed the "special as- signmenf Nixoraid last month he had in See NIXON, Page 13-A.

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