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Latrobe Bulletin from Latrobe, Pennsylvania • 11

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Even JVith Fully Alert Ground Crews, NASA Concludes Lost Soviet Had No Chance Astros made- Ship Sinks But, discussing possible financial impact 'of the accident, T' Webb hinted that' America might miss its goal of sending men to the i moon "and back before the end of 1969 "If this program is delayed into the. year 1970, additional --4' cost will come, I believe, in that year." 0 'ti Ont Jhe other hand Webb expressed hope that the exhaus tive investigation at the cape might turri up other weaknesses, rfct related to the which can be ironed out and thus "we may be able to to make up-7" for this." WASHINGTON (UPI) -The three Apollo astronauts killed last month at Cape Kennedy could not have been saved even if ground crews had been fully alert to fire hazards, the space agency has concluded; George E. Mueller head of manned spaceflight for the National Aeornautics and Space Admjnistration, ''reported this Monflay as he and 'other top NASA officials briefed the Senate Space Committee on progress so far in investigating the tragedy. Mueller testified that pressure inside the Apollo cabin' grew so intense so rapidly iiat neither the astronauts nor technicians Tuesday, February 28, 1967 1 4 1 iyrr tmM'mM i-'l' 11 COPENHAGEN (UPI) The Soviet ship Tukan, supply vessel for North7 Atlantic trawler fleets, capsized in stormy seas and sank off -Denmark-today with, heavy loss of life among its crew of 79. The Danish air-sea rescue center' at Aarhus said 47 bodies had been-picked up from the icy water and that 10 persons were There were 22 known survivors, all of them rescued by another Russian vessel, the Vilis Lacis.

The Tukan flashed a distress signal from a position 16 miles northwest of the Hanstholm lighthouse on the northwest coast of Jutland. The signal was cut abruptly and coastal radio stations in Den mark and Sweden heard nothing further. The station at Goteborg m4 "Sweden said the Tukan report ed it was capsizing. The time other vessels in the area had reached the scene there was no sign of the Soviet vessel. The Aarhus center said the Tukan may have been hit by a cross wave which rolled it onto its side.

No Glance pst of the dead crewmem- were wearing lifejackets. Rescuers believed they had no In Harrisburg Safe Deposit Box outside' could have forced open the-hatch. In additionr-he pointed to estimates the pilots were overcome by smoke inhalation in about 20 seconds after fire first was detected, while the present hatch requires 90 seconds to open. "In my judgment," Mueller said, "even if this test had been classified as hazardous, we wouldTiot TiaveeeiTlible to save the crew." NASA officials in a previous report on the investigation of a special accident review board that "alertness to the possibility of fire had become was insolvent. Dauphin County court, at the request of the Insurance Department, scheduled these hearings: March 6 on a request for an order preventing the securities "from being removed from the bank's vaults until the FBI has completed' its investigation of the theft.

March 30 on the petition for liquidation of the stock company. The disclosures came at a news conference with state Insurance Commissioner David O. Maxwell and state Atty. Gen. Sennett.

Smaller Firm Maxwell said the securities had been pledged by out-of-state interests to the surplus account of the smaller firm. He declined to identify the inter-terests, except to state, that $1 Million In Stolen Stock Pointings Displayed THE NATIONAL COUNCIL.of Churches' collection of children's paintings Bible stories is currently on display at the Latrobe Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Gordon Bechtel, assistant minister, is shown With three of the paintings, all done by children under 14 years of age. The public display will continue until Monday.

(Bulletin) chance to get into lifeboats, and To Protest Price Hike Publisher Schmitt Proposes Liquor Boycott dulled by previous ground? experience and six' years of successful manned missions." Apollo astronauts Virgil I. Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee were asphyxiated while conducting a ground rehearsal of the first Apollo earth-orbital flight they had been scheduled to make just a week ago today. NASA director James E. Webb, appearing before the committee with Mueller, deputy director Robert C. Seamans and astronaut physician-Dr.

Charles E. Berry, declined to guess when the first manned Apollo will fly. He said it probably will be April an estimate can they were not from Pennsylvania. Bankers Allied had agreed to sell the stock company to out-, side interests for $150,000, in cash plus the securities to pay off outstanding claims. Maxwell said the stolen certificates came to light during a routine "check by his department with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

He said the SEC determined that the certificates were stolen and alerted the FBI. Maxwell said, heAvould not disclose the principals involved in the attempt to gain control of the company because of the possibility that "the group attempting to take over the company is the legal owner of the securities." 'Good Faith' "If they acquired the stock in good faith and for full value, ed at conclusion of a full day's proceedings before Common Pleas Court Judge Richard E. McCormick. The six chosen came from a list of 32 prospective jurors who were questioned extensively by attorneys for the Commonwealth and the The procesr was sjow" as assistant-district attorneys Albert N. Nichols and Gilfert M.

Mil-halich specified the state is seeking a first degree murder conviction which could result in the imposition of the death penalty. Burden Of Proof Court-appointed defense attorneys for Arnold, William F. Ca-ruthers and Vincent Morocco, questioned the same 32 prospective jurors on whether they would be. willing to acquit Arnold if the state failed to live up to its burden of proof and most said they would. The full jury should be empaneled today, which means the case would be ready for presentation.

Jurors selected were: Marie Nave, a Salem Township housewife; Louise Bowers, a Sewickley Township housewife; Mary Jane Hamilton, a Greensburg housewife; Ann Wilps. a Greensburg housewife; and Donald Elliott, a Derry Township millworker. May Be Completed Today died of exposure. Two Danish trawlers picked up 36 bodies and took them to the harbor at Hirtshals. The Swedish ferry Tor Anglia, en- route from Britain to Sweden, was one of the several vessels taking part in the rescue effort.

A Danish helicopter aided the search for survivors after dawn when the storm had abated- Freighter Survivors To Arrive PHILADELPHIA (UPI)-The 22 surviving crewmen of the' fire-swept German freighter were to be brought into port here late today aboard the merchant freighter Atlantic Heritage. Left Behind 6 Jurors Seated In Arnold Trial HARRISBURG (UPI) Stol en stock certificates valued at more than $1 million haVe turned up in a safe deposit box at a local bank. The recovery of 2,600 shares of International Business Machines (IBM) stock, valued at $425 per share, was disclosed Monday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The securities, stolen last summer from the Wall Street brokerage firm of Hayden-Stone were found in a safe deposit box held by the Bankers Telephone Employes Insurance Co. Gettysburg, which was promptly suspended by the state Insurance Department.

Under Liquidation The stock insurance company is owned by Bankers Allied Mutual Insurance Gettysburg, which has been under liquidation since Feb. 8 on grounds it US. Plans To Intensify Viet War WASHINGTON (UPI) -The United States plans still further I intensification of its attacks on i North Vietnam in an effort to persuade Hanoi to stop fighting and agree to peace talks, officials said today. FirstIn Series The mining of some North Vietnamese" rivers, the naval bombardmenVof shore-instaHa-4 tions; and the of the supposedly' "demilitarized zone" were but the' first in a series of steps designed to make the war still more painful for the Communists, they said. Additional targets have been selected for U.S.

bombers and will be attacked when the situation appears most opportune. Officials emphasized, howev-j er, that the Johnson administra- tion has made no decision to mine the major harbor of: Haiphong, through which North, Vietnam does most of its. business with the outside world, It was unlikely that this step would be taken in the near future, despite some Congressional and Pentagon pressure. Officials Heartened U.S. officials have been heartened by what they consider firm evidence that Russia for the first time has undertaken a serious effort to convince Hanoi it would do well to accept President Johnson's offer to talk peace.

HARRISBURG (UPLV- A western Pennsylvania legislator has called for a boycott of state liquor stores next month in protest of rising liquor prices. Rep. C.L. Schmitt, D-Westmoreland, asked Pennsylvania consumers in a speech on the House floor Monday to join him in a "Whiskey Rebellion of 1967." He explained that his proposal would be a protest against the Liquor Control Board, which announced last Feb. 2 that wholesale prices of certain distillers would rise in Tenhsylva-nia March 1.

"To demonstrate the seriousness of this situation and to im press upon the Liquor Control Board the importance of the consumer in--Pennsylvania I call, upon the consumers in Pennsylvania to join together in the great Whiskey Rebellion of 1967" Schmitt said. "I ask. all the people tfr demonstrate duly ine the entire month of March by refusing to buy anything trom tne state jiquor stores. Claims Boosts Forced The board said the price in crease was forced by a court ruling in New York state requiring 'distillers to keep their wholesale prices in surrounding states ofl a level with those in New York. Schmitt called the impending increase "unwarranted, unneed- ed and unjustified." At first glance it may- ap- Page 11 Found under the state's commercial code their rights could supersede those of the firm from which the stock was stolen," Maxwell Sennett said the securities were immediately negotiable because thejrwere in blank" by Hayden-Stone.

The FBI "said the securities recovered here represented the major part of the 5,000 certificates stolen from the brokerage -house. Joe D. Jamieson, special FBI agent in charge of the Philadelphia office, said arrests were made in Canada last October and November in the same cage. Jamieson said the FBI investigation was aimed at determining whether interstate transportation of stolen property statutes had been violated in the stock transaction! 1 Hoiia's Attorneys Try Again CHATTANOOGA, Tenri. (UPI) Attorneys for Teamsters Union President James R.

Hoffa moved today to stave off the start of his prison sentence by filing their fourth motion for a new trial on his conviction for jury-tampering. Filing of the new motion came only one day after the Supreme--Court vital appeals by.Hoffa-., Certified copies of the. Court's action were in the mail, headed toward lower courts which could order Hoffa to start serving his eight-year sentence soon. The new retrial -motion was based on alleged new "direct evidence" obtained on Jan. 11, 1967, that agents of the Department of Justice "eavesdropped" on conferences Hoffa and three other defendants had with their legal counsel.

It also asserted that the telephones of Hoffa and his counsel were tapped during his trial here. Two other motions- for a new trial are under consideration by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court -of Appeals in Cincinnati. Hcffa's immediate chances of freedom rest with Judge Harry Wilson, who could order him to jail when he receives- notice of the Supreme Court actions or could grant him more time to clean up his union's affairs or a delay because of the new motion. The Teamsters are in the midst of negotiating a nationwide contract with the trucking industry.

the trial transcript to newsmen. passages covered the questioning of a distillery employe excused for cause. Paschen ordered the man excused when the prospective juror said he would favor prosecution because be considered it to be The Tribune suit charged' rascnen wiin restricting- news coverage of the Soeck trial with a 16-point set of guidelines that violated the constitutional right of a free press. i The lone crewman killed in the fire aboard the 259-foot oa the blackened hull still burning and listing badly "In the Atlantic about 40 miles off Va. 'J The Coast Guard cutters Cherokee from Cape May, N.J., and Madrona from Portsmouth, stood by the burning vessel during the night but they were unable to make any efforts to save it.

The Coast Guard at Portsmouth reported the 14-year-old freighter had a gaping hole in the starboard side and was listing 10 degrees to starboard. The i.745-ton Caldas was en route from Hamburg, Germany to Brooklyn, N.Y., with a cargo of four big buses, machinery and coffee when the fire broke out and raged out of control. While Coast Guard planes and cutters and at least four merchant ships hurried to the cene in answer to radioed distress signals, 17 of the crew-members were ordered to abandon ship In lifeboats. They were picked up by the American freighter Somerset Trader. Remained Aboard The captain and four other Succumbs Ariz.

(UPI) -Henry Luce, head of the Time- Life-Fortune publishing empire, died today at "St. Joseph's Hospital where he, was admitted Monday after suffering a coronary occlusion. He was 68. A hospital spokesman said the publishing, titan was pronounced dead at 5 a.m. MST and his body removed to the A.

L. Moore and Son mortuary. Became 111 Monday Luce became ill late Monday at his winter home in the exclusive Biltmore Estates of suburban Phoenix. Luce was one of the most influential figures in 20th Century journalism and one of the most controversial. He and Yale classmate Briton Hadden Conceived the idea, of, a news magazine arid began' publishing Time on shoestring irn92Tfor 12,000 original subscribers'.

The magazine's current worldwide circulation is 4.4 million. Fortune magazine followed in 1930, the Mafch of Time went on radio in 1931, Architectural Forum was purchased in 1932, and the March of Time moved into movie theaters in 1935. Life magazine, one of Luce's major was an overnight success when it was published in 1936. Luce later acquired House Home and launched another successful weekly, Sports Illustrated in 1954. Relinquished Powec Luce was editor-in-chief of his magazines until 1964 when he relinquished some of his power and took the title of editorial chairman.

His elder son, Henry Luce is vice president of three of the Luce publications. Young Luce and his brother, Peter, are Luce's children by his first wife, Mrs. Lila(Hotz Tyng. Henry Robinson Luce was born ADril 3. lffifl in Shantnn Province of China where his father and mother were Presbyterian missionaries.

He did not come to the United States until he was 14 when he was sent to the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut preparatory for his enrollment at Yale. No Baby Due For Sinatras LONDON (UPI) -Actress Mia Farrow Sunday denied that she and husband. Frank Sinatra ware expecting a baby, but she said she "longed" to fcave one. 'Tve seen reports that I am Miss Farrow said, "but thafs jumping the gun a She said she and Sinatra had not oeciaea on now many children Ifcey waatel pear that this matter affects only the boozer, and the initial reaction is to brush it off as 'it doesn't affect me'," Schmitt said. "However, I am not fighting for or against the liquor interests in Pennsylvania.

I am simply fighting for' poor little exploited Mr. Consumer, who is always seeming to get in the neck," At the same time, two other House Democrats called for a legislative investigation of the board and its activities, including law enforcement and rate making. xx Rep. John R. Gailey D-York, said in a floor speech he learned during the weekend that Gov.

Raymond P. Shafer has called for an administrative investigation-of -the agency, Urges "Complete" Inquiry "This legislature is competent to undertake the necessary investigation," Gailey said. "It should be a complete legislative study. The only way we're going to get a fair investigation is to have legislature do it." Rep. Austin J.

Murphy, D-Washington, told his colleagues the proposed investigation should not be conducted by the administration, but should "take a good, bipartisan or nonpartisan approach." "I think all of us would like to see an investigation of the Liquor Control Board," Murphy said. "We ask for a bipartisan approach to a legislative investigation of the agency." proving such a treaty. The new treaty would extend the present ban on nuclear tests in water and on land to cover underground atomic explosions as well: Russia needs to continue underground testing to develop its anti-missile system, the sources said, and thus was soft-pedalling the new treaty proposal Linked Blasts The sources linked this Russian, desire with the big Soviet underground explosions in centra) Asia during the weekend. The treaty would prevent non- out the tests needed to. acquire atomic weapons and other nations with recently acquired naclar kne'wlege from expand- irg their atomic storehouse.

On NAVeapons Treaty 4 BULLETIN Two more jurors were selected today in the trial of Larry A. Arnold, 19, charged with murder in the gunshot death of his girl friend's estranged husband. A total of eight jurors had been selected by the start of were chosen Monday. Six" five bf them" women and the Tixtlr a Deny Township millworker, were empaneled yesterday in the trial of accused murderer Larry Alan Arnold. Arnold, a 20 year old former York County resident, went on trial in Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court charged with the murder of his girl friend's estranged husband, David C.

Pedder. He is accused of firing nine or 10 shots from a .38 caliber revolver into the body of Pedder, a 20-year-old resident of Jeannette. The shooting took place last May 22. Followed Argument The incident is alleged to have followed an argument between Pedder and Arnold over the arrangements of an impending divorce Pedder and his 19-year-old wife. Violet.

Mrs. Pedder is scheduled to face1 a frial on similar charges next week. 's In yesterday's proceedings, six of the necessary 12 jurors and two alternates were select bune and other newspapers, today. Paschen's reply was scheduled to be filed with the supreme wurt ciers today by three private practice lawyers. Earlier when Paschen was asked he would interrupt the jury selection now its second "I'm i not going to interrupt court.

I've got a case to try. The, hell I with U.S., Russian Agreement Near Charging News Coverage Restrictions Unconstitutional Speck Judge Answers Court Suit crewmembers remained aboard the burning ressel for a time In an effort to save her. The Atlantic Heritage and the cutter Cherokee joined in the fight unui tne toast Guard decided It was too dangerous. The captain and four crew- men abandoned ship and were pitted up by the Coast Guard cutter KAwanda from Cat PEORIA, IU. (UPI) r-Judgepaschen to answer the suit filed Herbert Paschen today I by the Chicago Tribune Co.

answers an Einois Supreme publisher of the Chicago Tri- The tedious task of selection a Paschen. for the first time panel of peers to sit mLfoce the trial began, approved judgment of the drifter firom, release Monday of a segment of "May. The other crewmernben were transferred from the Som GENEVA (UPI) -Canadian Foreign Minister Paul Martin said today the United States and the Soviet Union were now "close to agreement" on a draft treaty to ban the spread of nuclear weapons. The Canadian official warned that such a treaty could be the world's "last chance" to prevent an uncvfrollsiila and potentially catastrophic arms race. FiS Soppwl Martin gave Canada's full support to the proposed treaty in a message read to the 17-natkm disarmament conference today by chief Canadian negotiator Gen.

E.LM. Burns. The report of U.S. Soviet accord came as diplomatic sources said that Russia was actually more interested in developirg its oit effective i73tem than ap Dallas droned on Monday. A fouHh juror was tentatively seated just before court recessed for the day.

Transcript Released But the four were not secluded because defense and prosecution attorneys had cot accepted them as a panel. Three of the four were seated Monday, ine founn, a nouse- wife, was tentatively seated last (Thursday. Any or all of them could be dismissed at anytime, before they are impaneled. Court suit charging his restrictions on newsmen covering the Richard Speck murder trial are unconstitutional. But the white-haired trial trial judge, whJoHowed the trial from Chicago on a change of venue, refused to interrupt the! proceedings aimea ai aeciamg I "'reurci eight young nurses, on a night last summer.

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