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Full Report on Page 9 32 PAGES 10c MORNING EDITION VOL. 191 NO. 56 1967 By GLOBE NEWSPAPER CO. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1967 Telephone AV 8-8000 mm' i WO EscapFs MFC But DeS Still Women Lock Up, Wait for News alv at Large 1 'I 1 I I A SURRENDERED Slayer and Robber Give Up in Waltham By JONATHAN KLARFELD Staff Reporter The doorbell rang in Mary Curtis' apartment in Cambridge Friday night. The pretty, dark-haired librarian went to the wall set and pressed the talk button.

"Who is it?" she asked. S4 5 1 "Western Union." "Leave it under the door," said and released the button. she GEORGE HARRISON IS RETURNED (Bob Dean Photo) STILL AT LARGE An Appeal To Reason Paid Off FEARFUL By ROBERT J. ANGLIN and RICHARD J. CONNOLLY Staff Reporter! BRIDGEWATER The two dangerous accomplices of Albert H.

DeSalvo surrendered to a legislative committee investigator and were returned to the State Correctional Institution here Friday night. But DeSalvo, the self-prdclaimed Boston Strangles remained at large after a bold escape plot involving long planning, a' cache of funds and outside help. The best clue to DeSalvo's whereabouts rested with the two confederates who were returned here. Fred E. Erickson, 40, of Montello Brockton, a wife slayer, and George W.

Harrison, 33, of West-ford and Cambridge, an armed robber, were found in a Waltham bar and returned to the institution at 10:20 p.m. Not a shot had been fired, not a fist flung. They surrendered to words of reason, to the pleas of Atty. Martin F. Fay, legal counsel and investigator for the legislative Committee on Correctional and Mental Health Institutions.

Boston Homicide Lt Det. Edward F. Sherry said he had been informed by State Police Saturday morning that Harrison and Erickson admitted stealing an auto from the parking lot of the State College at Bridgewater. He said they told of driving to Boston with DeSalvo and that DeSalvo got out at the entrance to Callahan Tunnel in the North End. Fay, working at the direction of the committee's chairman, Sen.

John J. Conte (D-Worcester), said of the surrender, "No difficulties except for a mental wrestling match. They wanted to tell us things, to bargain with us and choose their own institutions." After at least 16 hours of freedom, Harrison and Erickson were rushed behind locked doors. Erickson complained of a hurt knee and sprained right ankle, injured in the leap from the prison wall. Harrison suffered from the effects of drugs and alcohol.

ESCAPE Page 2 -k 'He May Head For Germany' "No one gets in after all those warnings I'm not answering anything." It was that way Friday night in Cambridge, in the Back Bay and on Beacon Hill. Albert DeSalvo, the man who said he was the Boston Strangle had escaped, and slowly the fear spread that he might return to the area he knew best the area where most of the Strangler's 13 victims died. On Myrtle several blocks away from the scene of one of the Beacon Hill murders, a secretary decided to cook an impromptu dinner for her boy friend. "I feel better with a bodyguard around," she said. "I'm scared out of my mind." In a Hereford st.

apartment in Back Bay, a young divorced mother said: "I'm really panicked I called the babysitter from work and told her to let absolutely no one in. My God, I live in a first-floor apartment." In a fashionable apartment on Massachusetts av. in Cambridge an attractive artist said: "I'm not really scared, but I'm a lot more cautious than usual." WOMEN Page 2 By RAY RICHARD Staff Reporter Words of reason were the main weapon in the capture of Bridgewater escapers Fred Erickson and George W. Harrison Friday night. They were wielded mainly by Martin F.

Fay, legal counsel and investigator for the legislative committee on correctional and mental health institutions. But, said Fay, "this was the result of teamwork." Assisting him was Les Glea-son, a staff investigator and another investigator for' the committee headed by Sen. John J. Conte (D-Worces-ter). SURRENDER Page 4 Y-Y" j.

By SARA DAVIDSON Staff Reporter Albert DeSalvo may be driven by a "keen, twisted desire" to get to Germany to see his wife and children, according to three psychiatrists who treated him. Dr. Samuel Allen, acting medical director of Bridgewater State Hospital, said: "DeSalvo told me several times he wanted to see his son end daughter. He may be trying to get over to Germany." DeSalvo's former wife, Irmgard, a native German, has changed her name and sought refuge from publicity in a small town near Bremen. ALBERT DESALVO DOCTORS Page 2 Crime Analysis McNamara, Rusk Agree on Viet Bombing Policy State Blushes Again By ROBERT B.

KENNEY Staff Reporter By TOM LAMBERT L.A. Tlmet-Waihlncton Post WASHINGTON Defense Secretary McNamara and Secretary of State Dean Rusk said Friday that they are in agreement on two key Vietnamese issues the bombing of the North and the selection of targets. McNamara, summoning reporters, radio broadcasters and television commentators to the Pentagon, declared he could not recall "a single instance" in which he and Rusk had differed on this country's bombing policy or bomb targets in Vietnam. Even as this agreement was being staged, the Pentagon ordered the shelling of North Vietnam by U.S. artillery and hinted that soon U.S.

cruisers vergence of opinion is a reflection of the fact that each of us testifies before different groups of the congress and meets different groups of the public," he explained. McNamara said he has to answer to rather hawkish groups the House Armed Services Committee, for example and sounds like a dove in explaining why the United Slates doesn't do more militarily to end the war. On the other hand, he said, Rusk frequently testified to congressional groups some of whose members are critical of American presence in Southeast Asia specifically the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. And Rusk in will fire on North Vietnamese shore positions. Rusk, asked about the McNamara proclamation, said that he and the Secretary of Defense always have gone hand-in-hand also "on the many efforts we have made to find a political solution" to the Vietnamese war.

This agreement was sparked by McNamara, apparently perturbed by press reports that he and Rusk held differing views on the American bombing attacks on North Vietnam. McNamara said he found those reports' "amusing" but untrue. "I think the apparent di justifying a strong U.S. stand seems to emerge as something of a hawk, McNamara said. McNamara wenf to considerable effort to try to quash any assumptions that he and Rusk differ on the bombing, an indication that the Defense Secretary or perhaps the administration upper echelon is disturbed by reports to that effect.

McNamara first summoned a few reporters to his office to deny any split with Rusk. He then solicited time for the radio and television networks to repeat the denial. The McNamaraa-Rusk duet occurred against- a back- McNAMARA Page 16 Massachusetts, you will recall, gained nationwide fame in 1961 when its capital city was host for "Biography of a Bookie Joint," an hour-long television documentary linking Boston police with bookmakers. Massachusetts was where the fantastic Brink's heist occurred Jan. 17, 1950.

The haul was $1.2 million in cash, at the time the largest cash robbery in history. Massachusetts broke the aforementioned record with the $1.5 million Plymouth mail robbery Aug. 14, 1962. That job currently holds the title of the largest cash robbery in U.S. history.

Massachusetts was where the notorious Elmer (Trigger) Burke, here to kill an informant in the Brink's case, muffed the job and was picked up, only to break out of the Charles Street Jail. These are but a few of the most unbelievable of the unbelievable criminal happenings that have taken place in Massachusetts, There are many more, equally incredible but true. Among them: If the Federal government had put Fort Knox in Massachusetts, it would have been a bad mistake. It would have been hit. Cleaned out, probably.

If anyone disbelieves this statement, it goes to show only one thing that the doubter is undoubtedly from out-of-this-country. Anyone else across the United States knows full well that, when you talk about crime, anything is possible in the Bay State. Anything. Sure, shock was expressed in some quarters Friday when word got out that the man who confessed to being the Boston Strangler had escaped from confinement. But the surprise was momentary.

On reflection, it turned to disgust and further embarrassment, signaling more ridicule of the state. In the process, many of the other "impossible" criminal events that have taken place here and have besmirched Massachusetts' image come to mind. Cabin Ruptures in Boston-Bound Plane CRIME Tage 4 What Is It? $5 Million US. Plan To Aid Boston Jobless ROLLED VW PUT erm not damafed. 4 u- hle llir 'Nightmare' When the cabin of the Boston-bound plane ruptured, Braintree school teacher Pat Duffy was suddenly thrown into a "horrible nightmare of darkness and things flying around my head." Miss Duffy and two friends, Norma Springer and Maura McGroaty, South Weymouth, originally sat in the seats behind the cockpit which, were sucked out of the plane.

"We moved to the rear of the plane because it was noisy up front," Miss Duffy said. "We had just settled down when there was this terriffic boom noise and it turned dark. Part of the ceiling fell down and stuffing from the scats was flying all over." "I was sure we had been in a mid-air collision." According to Miss Duffy, a By F. B. TAYLOR JR.

Stall Reporter Safe in N. Y. AtaoelaUd Frru NEW YORK The cabin of a four-engincd airliner three miles above the earth burst like a blown-out tire Friday, and the crew came within inches of being blown out through the yawning gap. However, pilot William Donahue fought the controls, eased the crippled ship down to a safer altitude and brought it smoothly into Kennedy Airport with two of its four engines out. There were no injuries to the nine passengers and five crew members aboard the Northeast Airlines propeller-driven DC-6, on a night flight from Philadelphia to Boston, "It was miraculous no on was hurt," said an official, noting the six by six foot gap AIRLINER Page 5 for fort will be primarily Negroes.

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That's 1.300.0'!0 more than the Ilrrnld-Travflrr. and 1.1IJ0.000 more than the Hecord American. Glohe C'laMifird is Nrw Kncland's Itiottt powerful advertiing medium. Call 282-1500 To plsce a Clnirird Advt. in The Globs President Johnson is expected soon to announce a $100 million crash program to train and find jobs by June 1 for 38.000 of the hard-core unemployed in slums of Boston and 13 other cities.

An immediate objective of the "Urban Slum Employment Program" is to prevent riots this Summer, sources close to the Labor Department in Washington said Friday. Target areas in Boston are Koxbury and the South End, tht sources said, and the ef They said Action for Boston Community Development, the city's antipoverty agency, can expect $4 million to $5 million in a contract that the Labor Department intends to sign by April. Boston is the only New England city in the program, the sources said. MANPOWER fage stewardess, who had been thrown to the floor, shouted, "We don't have captain." PASSENGERS Vit I THE END OF A PERILOUS JOURNEY (AP) i.

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