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DAIIY NEWS.3 'FRIDAY, 1973a" iryX vFH iff 1 I West toast. Sacramento, Calif, Nov. 8 (AP) A young man from the Bronx in New York City and another fugitive sought for questioning in the execution-style slaying of nine persons in a central California home were seized today by police. News photo bv Tom Gallaeher Douglas Gretzler, 22, of 1522 Beach Bronx, was appre hended during search a hotel four blocks from the California Cops escort Wendy away from library at Fifth Ave. and 41st St.

Wendy Keeps IHIeir SUM state Capital. Officers said they were tipped off by a clerk who recognized their pictures in a newspaper. Gretzler's companion, Willie Lather Steelman, 28, of Lodi, Calif, surrendered at a Sacra- Neighbors said Steelman also lived in the building. Police said the girl apparently was a recent acquaintance of Steelman's. There was no sign that she was being held hostage.

The men and the girl were taken to police headquarters for, questioning. They were to be taken later to Stockton, where the massacre occurred. Both men also are wanted on a murder warrant issued in Phoenix, Ariz, and on a variety of other charges in Santa Rosa and Yolo County, officers said. Authorities said Steelman was once a mental patient at Stockton Hospital. He escaped in 1968 and later was convicted of forgery and placed on probation.

5 Adults. 4 Children Slain The victims in the massacre included five adults and four children. They were identified as Walter Parkin, 33 the owner of a grocery, his wife, Joanne, 31; Mostly men, they were clearly impatient for the protest to start so that they could throw Wendy their support. 1 Some, forgetting the literary setting, went as far as to shout, "Take it off." ft Wendy announced that first she would sing "I'm All Covered in Clothes," and then make a speech before stripping off her sweat shirt. The audience indicated that they were not particularly interested in songs or speeches.

However, before she could perform any of her the police moved in. They arrested Wendy and led her off to a patrol car, provoking a storm of booing and catcalling from her disappointed followers. Her husband, Jim, was also pair, who gave their address as 60 Prospact Ave, Hackensack, were given a summons for conduct and later By ANTHONY BURTON Wendy Berlowitz did it in the White House. She did it in the sunshine of Miami Beach. She did it in a classroom at the University of Oklahoma.

But yesterday, Wendy, 25, found she couldn't do it in New York. What Wendy does is strip to the waist in protest against laws that allow men to appear bare-chested in public, but not women. Coo Day. Warm Reception To further expose this injustice, she presented herself on the steps of the Public Library, at 41st St. and Fifth at noon yesterday.

The temperature was 51 degrees. The atmosphere among a motley crowd of nearly 1,000 New Yorkers filling the plaza outside the library was considerably warmer. their children Lisa, 11, and Bobby Richard A. Eard, a neighbor and accountant; Earl's wife, Wanda; their son, Ricky 15; their daughter Derby, 18, and Mark Lang, 20, identified as Debby's boy friend. Bronx Neighbor Says Gref xer Was Polite A Bronx resident who knew Douglas Gretzler when he lived in New York described him as a Associated Press Wmphoto Douglas Gretzler after his arrest in Sacramento.

By PATRICK DOYLE An attractive 16-year-old brunette cheerleader at Evander Childs High School in the Bronx was seized and dragged into a car as she was walking home yesterday and was taken to a tenement where she was Jeaten and raped repeatedly by eight youths for two hours. "polite" young man who liked to tinkpy with cars. mento apartment house later after police fired tear gas into the building. Officers had assured Steelman in a message over a local radio station that he would not be harmed if he surrendered. But he did not give himself up until the tear gas was fired.

Then, Steelman emerged following a slim, blond girl Identified later by police as 19-year-old Mehnda Ann Kashula. The girl tossed a pistol on the ground before coming out. Officers said Miss Kashula moved to the apartment about Ave. at 4:45 p.m. when a car with four youths in it pulled up.

Two youths jumped out and forced her into the back seat where one held his hand over her mouth to prevent her from screaming, police said. She told police they warned her to keep quiet or she would be hurt. She said- they took $1.89 from her jacket pocket. Her assailants took her to the Hunts Point section of the Bronx. She told police she recognized the area because she has friends Mrs.

Anthony. Doherty, who now lives at Gretzer's former address, said that Gretzer called himself "Doug" and was "a nice, young blonde boy, 20, who worked in a gas station." "He had a wife and a baby, and ran away and left them a while ago," Mrs. Doherty re-railed. "She (the wife) took the baby and went down to Florida with her parents. "He was always very polite and helped people in the building there.

They stopped outside a tenement and dragged her to a. second-floor apartment where four more young men, between 18 and 22, were waiting. 8-Hour Ordeal For the next two hours, the eight men raped her, committed sodomy and battered her. They blindfolded her and took her to 151st St. and River where three of the youths Taped her again and committed sodomy.

Then they dumped her on the street and drove away. After her ordeal, the girl stumbled into the Bronx House of Detention and was taken to Mor-risania Hospital, where she was treated for shock, facial injuries and bruises on her arms and body. Her skull may have been fractured. Robbery Comes First Police of the Wakefield Ave. station said the girl had just finished cheerleaders', practice for a football game and was walking at 212th St.

and Barnes three weeks ago from Berkeley. I fix fco.1 Can't Calm Watergate by Throwing Oil on the months ahead," he said, "I shall do everything I can to see that any doubts as to the integrity of the man who occupies the highest office in the land, to remove those doubts where they exist." It remains to be seen whether presi-" dential words alone will be sufficient to restore declining public confidence (PAPDTOL By JEROME CAHILL, Washington, Nov. 8 The energy crisis that President Nixon dramatically brought to national attention with his televised appeal for lower thermostats, slower highway speeds, year-round daylight-saving time, shopping-center brownouts and other conservation measures may take the heat off more than America's homes and factories. Some White House supporters of the President, who see his Watergate troubles primarily as a public relations problem, are hopeful that the fuel shortage, and the ensuing public debate over White House proposals to deal with it, will divert attention from Watergate long enough to allow Nixon to mount his promised counterattack to clear his name. In his TV address, the President made it perfectly clear that he is prepared not only to "tough it out" on Watergate but to take his case to the people.

"In Ruckelshaus backed Cox, but he is also backing the President, accepting at face value Nixon's assertion that he has not violated his public trust in the Watergate case. Accordingly, the former No. 2 man at Justice believes that making a breast of it will restore Nixon in the eyes of the public. The trouble with that logic is that we now know the President could not make a full and complete disclosure on Watergate even if he wanted to. Two critical Watergate conversations were never tape-recorded, despite a contrary impression that was permitted to exist for months.

They are the telephone conversation Nixon had on June 20, 1972, with John N. Mitchell, who called him with the news of the Watergate break-in, and tlie April 15, 1973, discussion Nixon had with John Dean 3d, then the WTiite House counseL Documents and Audibility The nonexistence of those conversations on tape makes It impossible for the President to dispel with finality public doubts over his Watergate role. A record of those talks with Mitchell and Dean might have -fully vindicated the Presi dent. But in their absence, well never know for sure. The doubters will still have room for doubt, whatever the President does now in the way of public disclosure.

Nor is the release of the other disputed tapes likely to help much. Rose Mary Woods, the President's private secretary, wo recently monitored the tapes, told Judge John J. Sirica today that segments of the tapes were barely audible. It is difficult to see how the release of documents and notes can ever make them audible. Given these facts, more than an energy crisis likely will be needed to resolve Watergate to the President's satisfaction.

While he goes about making his case, Congress will continue its Watergate and impeachment inquiries, trials of top Nixon lieutenants will go forward in New York and Los Angeles, and two separate grand juries here will dig further into the facta of break-in and campaign contributions the President last year. Like it or not, the Watergate scandal will still be in the headlines, however cold the in the Nixon White House. William D. Ruckelshaus, the former deputy attorney general, believes that nothing short of full disclosure of all White House papers and documents dealing with Water- -gate is required. "Rhetoric won't rdo it," he told a morning press group.

Rockelshaus was bounced from the administration team along with his boss at the Justice Department, Elliot Richardson, during the Oct. 20 "firestorm" that followed the firing of Archibald Cox. the- special Watergate prosecutor who defied the President on the release of the Watergate tapes..