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Aug. 7, 1968 dirtine 6.3. Examiner Page 7 Rescue by Seagoing Firemen Gun Under Pillow, Shootout Officer Says -From Page and then lowered the right stretched directly outward) "and it was fired and I saw the officer behind and he fell." called the dispatcher and said, 'Get help, a policeman is being shot. There's shots and firing everywhere. Get help Grier said Officer Frey had passed the opened door of his bus.

"I saw at this time a shot fired into the back of the officer, who was falling like this (and Grier slumped forward). "Is that man Mr. Newton here?" asked Jensen. "Yes sir," replied Grier. Heanes, who has recovered from his wounds told the jury today he had slept with a pistol under his pillow ever since the fatal shooting.

Heanes made the admission under cross-examination by Defense Attorney Charles Garry at Black Panther Huey Newton's murder trial in Oakland. "The reason I keep a gun under my pillow is that someone or somebody might have a grudge against me, might do some harm to me or my family," Heanes fied. BLACK PANTHERS Garry wanted to know whether he didn't really mean the Black Panthers, not "someone or somebody." Heanes conceded: "The Black Panthers might hold a grudge against me because of this incident." But neither he nor another officer testifying today, Patrolman Thomas Fitzmaurice, would agree with Garry's contention that men "hate" the Panthers. Fitzmaurice was one of the officers who rushed to the death scene after the wounded Heanes managed to radio for help from the dying Frey's patrol car. RUSHED TO SCENE "You don't like the Black Panthers, do you?" Garry asked him.

Fitzmaurice replied: "I don't feel one way or another. They never did me any Q-What do you like about them? A-I like some of the things they stand for, all right. Q-What don't you like about them? A--The way they carry guns. Fitzmaurice testified under direct examination by Prosecutor Lowell Jensen how "I heard my name called" when he reached the slaying scene. He said he went to Frey's car and found the wounded Heanes lying across the front seat, the microphone on the floor, and his pistol, with two spent cylinders, lying on his lap near his left hand.

"I asked him where he was hit and who did it." Fitzmaurice testified, "and he said 'Huey Newton did CLOTHES CLUES Earlier, in an unexplained maneuver while Heanes was under cross-examination, Garry produced a black jacket, dark slacks, a torn shirt with a huge dried bloodstain on 1 the front, black shoes and black socks evidence not yet introduced by the prosecution but supplied to Garry at his request. Hearst Executive G.O Markuson Dies Special to The Examiner NEW YORK Gerard 0. Markuson, executive vice president of the Hearst Corporation, died today at Roosevelt Hospital. He was 67 years old and resided in Bronxville, N.Y.. A native of Leer, Michigan, he attended Long Rapids high school and the Ferris Institute, Big Rapids, where he studied banking and accounting.

In 1921, Mr. Markuson launched his business career with the Hearst Newspapers on the Detroit Times and later the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. In 1932, he joined the Hearst Corporation in New York. Eight years later, he was named treasurer and controller of the company. He was a trustee of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and a testamentary trustee under the will of the late William Randolph He was also a director of the Hearst Corporation.

Mr. Markuson had also served as a director or ver of a score of companies including King Features Syn- Airport Light Theft Linked With Sabotage Sheriff's deputies were investigating "the possibility of today in the theft of six landing lights from a primary landing strip at San Francisco International Airport. Captain Eugene Stewart said he was advised by the Beaten Youth in Car Trap A semi-conscious young man was found with his head wedged between the tire and fender of a parked car in Sausalito early today. He had been badly beaten; his long, hippie like hair partly cut his wrists bruised and cut by handcuffs or wire; a piece of wire was around his waist. He was taken to Marin General Hospital where his condition was described as serious.

He was unable to speak coherently. Robert Black of No. 3 Lincoln Drive heard the young man's moans when he was returning home about 6:30 a.m. today. Black called police.

Police have taken the young man's fingerprints and sent them to the of Criminal Investigation and Identification in Sacramento. $437,432 for Minority Training The U.S. Department of Labor has provided $437,432 for a two-year training program for minority race members in Oakland, Rep. Jeffery Cohelan announced today. The students will be trained in craft work, part of the time in actual jobs, under the federal contract with the General and Specialty Contractors, 17th and Franklin Streets, Oakland.

Onassis Hosts Jackie, Ted K. PREVEZA (Greece) (AP) Aristotle Onassis, the Green shipping magnate, is host for Mrs. John F. Kennedy and Sen. Edward 1 M.

Kennedy on a week's cruise. They were flown from Zurich in a jet owned by Onassis. They left here aboard a launch for his private island hideaway of Scorpios, in the Ionian Sea, where they boarded his yacht Christina. Federal Aviation Agency that the strobe lights, each capable of radiating 30 million candlepower, were stolen some time Monday night. A malfunction warning signal flashed in the control tower shortly after midnight, he said, alerting operators to danger and pinpointing the location.

The lights, worth only $10 each, were replaced at once. But, he said, the lack of lighting could have created a hazardous condition had an aircraft attempted to land in the interim. "I wouldn't overlook the possibility of Stewart said. Each of the lights, located at the south end of the landing pattern, was fastened to the ground by padlocks. The hasps were cut, and the padlocks were taken, too.

Doctor's Wife Names Socialite and Secretary Suzanne a mistake stranded when the from to safety Gallagher, 20, and John last night. They let on the beach behind tide came in. To the Battalion 7. Photos show the by Fireman Robert Moore. -Photso by Chet Born, He asked Heanes whether those were the clothes Newton was wearing at the time of the West Oakland gun bat- tle.

ANSWERS 'YES' "They appear to be, Heanes replied. Garry also produced a green -covered book and asked Heanes if he recognized it. When the officer said no, the attorney demanded: "Well, didn't you see Mr. Newton reach to the back of the car and pull out this book and put it under his arm (at the time Officers Frey and Heanes were questioning him before the shooting)?" "No. sir." replied Heanes.

2ND OFFICER TESTIFIES Garry later identified the book as a volume on criminal law, but did not explain the purpose of this line of questioning. Another officer, Gilbert de Hoyas, the first to reach the Seventh and Willow Streets scene after the gunfire, testified yesterday that Frey was alive, lying in the street, when De Hoyas arrived "Did he say anything to you?" asked Prosecutor Lowell Jensen. "He asked for help," De Hoyas said. In a day full of surprises and dramatics, Officer Heanes yesterday was accused obliquely by the defense of having shot Frey himself. Garry's first question to Heanes brought audible gasps from spectators and startled looks on the faces of some jurors in the court of Alameda County Superior Judge Monroe Friedman.

Q. Did you shoot and kill Officer Frey? A. No sir, I did not. Q. Isn't it a fact that you shot Officer Frey? A.

No sir. Q. When you fired, only one person fell a and that was Officer Frey, wasn't it? A. I did not see anyone fall. Q.

You never saw a gun in Huey Newton's hand, did you? A. No, I did not. PANTHER CAR Heanes testified earlier that he went to Seventh and Willow Streets in response to a radio request to back up another officer who had stopped a car. Frey had identified the car, a Volkswagen, on the radio as a "known Black Panther" vehicle and the dispatcher had informed him there were two traffic warrants outstanding against the auto. "I stopped my car directly behind Officer Frey's, which was parked behind the Volkswagen.

I got out and took a position to the right rear of the Volkswagen and saw two males inside and Frey outside," Heanes testified. "Is the person you saw on the driver's side in this man here in the grey coat." Heanes pointed to where Newton was sitting, but court?" asked Jensen. CITES NEWTON "Yes sir. It's the gentle- McLean, 40, made themselves get 290 Seacliff Drive rescue--firemen couple being led San Francisco Fire Dept. RFK Son Guest Of Bullfighter MALAGA (Spain) (UPI) El Cordobes.

Spain's most renowned bullfighter, dedicated his second bull yesterday to Joseph Kennedy III, son of the late Sen. Robert Kennedy. Young Kennedy, on a tour of Spain, where he has tried his own hand at fighting small bulls, was the bull fighter's guest in a front-row seat at the bull ring. The judges awarded El Cordobes one ear from the bull he killed for Kennedy. Judge Friedman told him to step down and make a better identification.

The officer, who wore his uniform in court, walked to Newton and touched his left shoulder. Then he returned to the witness stand and Jensen continued his step-by-step reconstruction of the Oct. 28 early morning events. Heanes said Newton identified himself with a remark, "I'm Huey Newton," after first giving Officer Frey the registration card in the vehicle which bore the name of Laverne Williams, subsequently identified as New- ton's fiance. STARTED SHOOTING "Officer Frey informed Mr.

Newton he was under arrest and asked him to step out of the vehicle," Heanes continued. "Newton started walking at a rather brisk pace until he reached the rear of my vehicle. Officer Frey was three or four feet to Newton's right. "At this point Newton turned around and started shooting." By WILLIAM EARLE Marin Bureau Dr. Thomas P.

Lowry, prominent Marin County psychiatrist, has been accused by his second wife of committing "numerous acts of adultery, and even visiting a Mexican brothel," during their eight years of marriage. The allegations are made in a cross-complaint for divorce on file today in Marin County Superior Court. Mrs. Frances Lowry, 33, charges the 36 year old chief of Ross General Hospital's psychiatric ward committed adultery in 1966 with socialite divorcee Patricia Skinner of Kentfield and in 1967 and 1968 with his secretary, Thea Hogan of San Rafael. MEXICAN VISIT She claims her husband's visit to a brothel occurred when the couple traveled south of the border in 1962.

The two "other women" are named as corespondents in the cross complaint. Miss Hogan has formally denied the accusations against her. Mrs. Skinner could not be reached for comment today. Dr.

Lowry, who made headlines when he resigned in a huff from the San Quen- THOMAS P. LOWRY "Other women" named tin psychiatric staff two years ago, has filed a general denial of his wife's charges. MARRIAGE CONFLICT He claims that since suing her for divorce on grounds of extreme cruelty, he has discovered that his previous marriage to Norma Louise McCoy Lowry was still in effect when he married Frances, Feb. 13, 1960, in San Francisco. The final divorce decree was issued four days later, in San Rafael, he said.

A hearing on Dr. Lowry's belated petition to substitute Oakland Advised To Update Charter A revision of the year -old Oakland City Charter was proposed last night to the City Council. Proponents of the charter revision said it would save the city up to $5 million a year by consolidating public works into one agency. At present, for example, the Departments of Parks, Streets and Recreation are in three separate agencies. The proposal was made by Councilmen Paul Brom and Saga of San Rafael Family Baker Wallace E.

Baker, a San lives in San Rafael, is enroute England, with his family in the divorce action with an annulment complaint has been set for Aug. 19. TWO CHILDREN The couple have two children, Margot, 7, and Shawn. 6, who live with their mother at 757 Hawthorne Tiburon. Mrs.

Lowry says her husband, who has offices a at 1100 Sir Francis Drake Blvd Kentfield, earns more than $40,000 a year. Her cross-complaint declares the "adulterous relationship" with Mrs. Skinner occurred while the latter was his patient. His alleged acts, she asserts, "caused such consternation" among his colleagues that he was "finally induced to stop seeing Patricia Skinner." 'MARITAL RELATIONS' Mrs. Lowry alleges that after the couple's estrangement the doctor "returned? on numerous occasions to the family home and continued having marital relations" with her.

At first, this encouraged her to "believe and he intended to continue the marriage, according to her suit, but finally caused her to sur fer "great depression and despondency." Suspect Slain in Burglary Harvey Binns, both members of the council's Charter Revision Committee Brom and Binns said savings also would be affected in the printing of city ordinances, and that the revision would give City Manager Jerome Keithley more direct control over independent city agencies. The Port of Oakland would not, however, be affected by the proposed revision. with sons, Ron, Brent and She'll serve as co-navigator galley, she says. -UPI Photo A burglary suspect was shot to death last night while battling with two policemen in an alley near the Stanford University campus. Henry D.

Offrander, 32. of Watsonville, was shot down by Patrolman Donald Martin after Offrander had yanked a revolver from the other officer's holster and aimed it at him, according to Palo Alto Police Chief William A. Hydie. Hydie said Martin and Patrolman Ray Blasingame responded to a burglar alarm at a sporting goods store at 2080 El Camino Real. As they arrived, he reported, two dumbbells thrown from inside the store shattered a plate glass window.

Offrander leaped through the window and started running. The policemen chased him into a dead end alley and closed in on him. It was then, Hyde said, that Offrander grabbed Blasingame's revolver and pointed it at him. Martin's shot hit the suspect just below the heart." Witnesses said two other men fled from the store before the policemen arrived. Nothing was taken.

Dynamite Found on Peninsula GERARD O. MARKUSON Hearst executive dicate Quebec Newsprint Company Southwest Forest Industries, and United Press International. is survived by his Richard. wife, Emily, and a son, Funeral services will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Frank E.

Campbell Funeral Home, New York. Interment will be at Ferncliff Cemetery in Ardsley, New York. A case of dynamite was found in a shrub-covered Peninsula field off Star Hill Road, west of Skyline Boulevard yesterday. Lieutenant John Lo Schiavo, explosives expert for the San Mateo County sheriff's office. said the case contained 392 sticks which were dated 1963.

They were badly deteriorated, he said, but were "extremely dangerous" because they were exuding nitroglycerine. Lo Schiavo destroyed them by fire while State Forestry Division truck stood by. Francisco art teacher who home from Swanwick, their 35-foot yacht, the Comet 11. He's shown Jack, and his wife, Lola. and commander of the.

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