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i i. l. i- 107th Year Thursday, July 6. 1972, Albany, Oregon 24 pages Price 1 0 cents Are Russia, China puff in Two others injured Two persons slain amidst gun battle near Portland ure on Hanoi? peace press Henry Ronald Boyle, 33, estranged husband of the slain woman, was critically injured by a blast from a 12-gauge shotgun, police said. Police chief Donald R.

Jones said the shooting was reported by a neighbor after three Smaller children, who had been sleeping in a back bedroom, got out of the house and went to the neighbors. Jones said the shooting took place about 2:15 a.m., sometime after Boyle entered the house. Mrs. Boyle was asleep and the young persons apparently were in the living room when the shootings took place. No charges had been filed by LONDON (AP) Western diplomats have been speculating on chances that Russia and China may separately be urging North Vietnam toward a peace settlement ever since President Nikolai V.

Podgorny visited Hanoi and Henry A. Kissinger visited Peking last month. But those officials representing countries with missions in Moscow, Peking and Hanoi, reported today they have seen absolutely no evidence to suggest that the Russians or Chinese in fact are exercising any effective pressures on North Vietnam. In the one sector where Moscow and Peking could reinforce any advice in favor MILWAUKIE, Ore. (AP) An exchange of gunfire killed two persons and critically injured two others early today in Milwaukie, a Portland suburb.

Police said at midmorning they had not yet been able to reconstruct what happened. Rifle shots took the lives of Dorothy June Boyle, 38, who lived at the house where the shootings took place, and Daniel Lee Wills, 19, Stanton, wire. Boyle nephew. Also struck by rifle bullets were Audry Allison Clark, 16, Portland, reported in critical condition, and Gerald Lee Still-well, 16, stepson of Mrs. Boyle, who was treated and released from a hospital.

Demo hassle Justice freezes delegate issue --i-AV I 'J- t-Uf 'I irr i- said any authoritative statement relating to Soviet policy on Vietnam would not be made in London but in Moscow. A source close to the Chinese embassy said "No member of the Chinese mission could conceivably discuss Peking's dealings with Hanoi in this way." During his mission to Moscow, President Nixon devoted hours of his time to discussing with Soviet leaders ways of ending the Vietnam war. It became everyone's secret that he sought Soviet help toward that goal. In the wake of Nixon's visit, President Podgorny journeyed to Hanoi where, Federal and state fire agencies reported all other fires either contained or controlled this morning. Most were small.

TM Forest Service used smokejumpers and retardant drops to contain fires on Its land. Another series of lightning storms Is expected in the central and eastern part of the state tonight. Temperatures were expected to stay near 100 degrees east of the Cascades through Friday, while in the western portions more cooling was forecast. Wednesday's highs In most of western of a settlement in the supply of arms and other military aid there has been no sign of a cutoff of aid. And these Western authorities said they doubt very much if the competing Russians and Chinese would expose themselves to charges of betraying Hanoi by seeming to turn on them so soon before the resumption of the Paris peace talks next week.

Spokesmen for the Soviet and Chinese embassies here declined formal comment on a report that their governments have been pressing Hanoi to end the war soon. Speaking privately, one Russian official night, causing several forest fires. No fires were reported in the Sweet Home Ranger District, however. The largest fire caused by the lightning was a 100-acre blaze on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation near Madras. Fire danger remained high throughout the state although cooling temperatures were moving Inland from the coast, accompanied by morning clouds In the northwest interior.

said Alvarez. The FBI said the gunman had an automatic In each hand but did not DtMITR ALKXIEKF MICHAEL AZMANOFF open fire. In the rear of the plane, the other Western diplomats said, he got a lukewarm reception. Western authorities still are insure if this was due to Hanoi's resentment against the Russians for permitting the summit talks to take place at a time when U.S. bombing was going on and U.S.

mining of North Vietnamese ports was taking place. That could have been a factor. Another factor could have been Hanoi's hostility to the advice Podgorny was offering. China, meantime, has been reported sending new contingents of engineers and roadmenders into North Vietnam. (Related stories, page 12) SUB phett by Ccnnt fttty Oregon were 10 degrees less than the previous day, but the southern portion again was hot at Medford hit 99 degrees.

The Dalles was the slate's warmest spot at 102 degrees, while Pendleton recorded 100. Readings In the 70s were expected In some western.lnterlor valleys today, while temperatures on the coast were forecast to remain In the 60s. (Weather report, pagt IU and Michael Aunanoff, 28, of San Fran daco. The passenger dead on arrival at Peninsula Hospital in nearby Burllngame was C. II.

Stanley Carter, 69, Identified as a retired Canadian National Railway conductor from Lorigucuil, Que. The wounded passengers, reported In fair condition at the hospital, were hJcn-Ufled as Leo A. Cormier, of Van Nuyt, and Victor Sen Yung, tA. a Universal City, actor ho plays the Chinese cook In the TV scries "Ikmawa After landing and then taking and circling San Francisco for in imr, the plane sat for five hours at the end of ihe runway while negotiations by railia continued and tht money and mstrtls were collected. 1 (Itrtakl frhotc, fcg 15! Make way, ducks boys like this canal, too The canal that divides West Eighth Avenue near Broadalbin Street Is a favorite place to are Jerry Olsen, left, Douglas Grant and Eddie Jean, sons of the Richard Olsen, Bernal Kay in summer, and instead of playing on the banks this trio decided tube boating would Grant and Raymond Jean families who live nearby.

The trio and the ducks got along fine more fun. The ducks just went around the boys and got back into the water. The boys after the boys let the ducks by. Lightning ignites forest fires Mid-valley 'cooling system' in operation WASHINGTON (AP) Chief Justice Warren E. Burger today extended until further notice a stay issued by the U.S.

Circuit Court of appeals which suspended the effect of its orders returning 151 California delegates to Sen. George McGovern. Burger's action followed pleas to the Supreme Court by the Democratic party and by forces of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley for a special term of the court to consider an appeal of the, circuit court's decision which also unseated Daley and 58 other Illinois delegates. Burger's order reads that the circuit stay "is hereby extended until further order of the court." SH voters cast budget ballots SWEET HOME-Polls are open until 8 tonight as voters cast ballots on taxes for the city's 1972-73 operating budget.

The $912,749 budget is 86,785 more than last year's, but the $65,730 outside the six per cent limitation is the same as the 1971 -72 figure. Total amount to be levied in taxes is $174,756. Street work is the major thrust of the budget, according to City Manager Michael Gleason. Tax rate is $7.67 per $1,000 of true cash value, or $76.70 on a $10,000 home and $115.05 on a $15,000 home. Voting is at the Sweet Home City Hall, 1140 12th Ave.

Apology lights chess go sign REYKJAVIK, Iceland AP) Bobby Fischer made full and penitent apology to Boris Spassky today, and organizers of the world chess championship match said the two would meet for their first game Sunday night. The organizers said it had been agreed in principle to hold the drawing tonight to determine which player would have the white pieces and with them the first move. The young American, In a letter delivered by hand this morning to the world chess champion from the Soviet Union, apologized for his "disrespectful behavior." On ihe inside BuslncM-Morkets 11 ClaSHificds 20. 21. 22, 23 Comics 18 Crossword DcarAbby 18 Editorial Horoscope .18 News of Record ....19 Obituaries ....11 People H.H Sports IM? TV Schedule Weather On riding ihe rails Seepage 7 The circuit court stay was due to expire at 2 p.m.

The action by Burger freezes the issue as it stands until a decision is made at the Supreme Court level on whether to accept the dual appeals of the circuit court decision. The party hierarchy asked Burger to suspend the effect of the appeals court ruling, which Wednesday overrode the party Credentials Committee to allow McGovern to recover 151 California convention delegates. The Daley forces are seeking just the opposite effect, contending that federal courts should intervene in order to seat Daley and 58 other Illinois delegates ousted by the Credentials Committee. There was no indication when the chief justice might act The Court of Appeals restored to McGovern the full 271 votes from California, reversing the committee's vote to take more than half the number from him and apportion them to other primary candidates, chiefly Sen. Hubert H.

Humphrey. The court suspended the effect of its rulings until 2 p.m. today to give the high court time to act If it wishes. The Supreme Court has held only three special sessions in its history. "We fed this case is as compelling and more compelling" than those which prompted the other sessions, said Democratic National Committee counsel Joseph A.

Califano in Miami Beach. McGovern forces announced Wednesday afternoon that the appeals-court action gave their candidate more than the 1,509 delegate votes needed for nomination. The Associated Press delegate count, which does not list officially uncommitted delegates who are leaning toward a candidate, showed McGovern with 1,436.65 votes. But Humphrey was in no mood to concede. He noted that the Supreme Court had not yet spoken, and argued further that the party itself would be the ultimate judge; Humphrey conceded that It would be "quite a hassle" if the convention Ignores the court, but said he felt Ithat the right to do so.

The appeals court based Its Intervention on the conclusion that the party had Ignored its own rules to the point where constitutional guarantees due process were violated. California law awarded all the delegates to the winner. The 2-1 decision overturned a U.S. District Court which ruled Monday that the judiciary has no jurisdiction in partisan processes unless a clear constitutional principle Is involved. (Related ttortfS.

photos, page It) SAN FRANCISCO (AP) "We wanted to stop the hliacklng and stop It we did," said the FBI special agent In charge, describing how authorities stormed a pirated aircraft and killed two hijackers In a gun battle while passenger! were still aboard. Officials said shots fired by one of the hijackers killed passenger and wounded two others after federal agents charged aboard an Interstate Pacific Southwest Airline Boeing 737 taken over by two hijackers for tlx hours Wednesday. "Certainly we're not pleased that three passengers were wounded," said Robert Ccbhardt, FBI special agent In charge. He. made Ihe comment before teaming that one of the pMcngeri had died.

"But," he said in response to reporter's Question, "somebody had to make its More morning clouds and lower temperatures are forecast for the mid-valley Friday. And the extended outlook calls for continued cooling for the next five days. High temperatures should be In the 75-85 range, with lows reaching about 47, forecasters say. The high temperature In Albany Wednesday was 86. The overnight low was 49.

A lightning storm moved through the central portion of the state during the plane; hijackers, passenger die decision." Three FBI men who had sneaked up under the fuselage of the plane rushed aboard after the hijackers refused to release II passengers, Cebhardt said. The slain hijackers had demanded two parachutes, $900,000 and passage to Siberia shortly after taking the plane over In the air, officials said. Cebhardt said the FBI men moved In on the plane only after the hijackers refused to release the passengers until Ihe ransom was handed over. "I saw two FBI men enter the plane," laid Dr. Manuel Alvarez, ftl, of Sacramento, a passenger.

"The first came through with hll hands on his head, and the second csme up shooting, blsillng away with shotgun.1' The hijacker "crumpled to the floor," hijacker had another automatic and fired at least three shots, the FBI said. The second hijacker went down almost Immediately from FBI gunfire. Cebhardt laid, and like the other was dead on arrival at the The hijackers also held the plane'! five crew members. It was the first time the FBI had charged aboard a loaded passenger airliner to put an end to a hijacking. Wednesday's hijacking occurred at 10: 10 a.m., shortly after the plane left the air port In Sacramento on a flight to Los Angeles via San Francisco.

It landed at San Francisco International Airport, then took off, circled the city and landed gain. The gunmen killed Wednesday were Identified from cards In their pockets at Dimitr Alexieff, 28, of Hsyward. If.

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