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New fear: SLA making bombs Story below Ik .,45 Ai -for' FINAL EDITION COMPLETE STOCKS 109th Year No. 283 SU 1-2424 TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1974 DAILY 15c (1P: Dick Nolan's inside report IP H7 i SI (CPFV Senator damns Police fear too much talk blew the case I transcript case 8 i 4 Associated Press WASHINGTON Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott said today that the White House-edited Watergate transcripts reveal "a shabby, disgusting, immoral performance" by all of those involved, including President Nixon. Scott, who has defended the White House and said portions of the transcript he saw last winter showed Nixon's innocence, gave reporters some sharp comments on them based on reading about 800 of the 1300 pages. Scott all in the President on 33 hours of conversation dealing with this very difficult subject. We feel he will be judged on the foreign domestic achievements of this administration." Until now, Scott has sided with presidential explanations, though he warned last Jan.

30 "I'll be goddamned if I'll be a patsy for anybody." He declined today to comment in any detail on the material in the transcripts, saying a lot of it is "very confused" and that "the transcripts will have to speak for themselves. Aides indicated that the March 21 excerpts which Scott was shown last winter only contained some of the material in the transcript of the first March 21 Nixon-Dean meeting and none of the second. The senators' slush funds Slush funds to finance major political campaigns are no longer unique, but they're not easy to track down. The funds for Senators Tunney, Tower and Hartke are investigated on page 10. Priest ivins a bundle The Rev.

Charles Donovan, a Catholic priest residing in Boston's Mission Church, holds up his claim form for the winning ticket and $200,000 in the Massachusetts state lottery which he won yesterday. He plans to turn his winnings over to the Redemptorist order. Story Page 30. By Dick Nolan Examiner Columnist Premature arrests may have blown the "Zebra" case, destroying months of careful and often dangerous investigation by working level policemen. This is the fear expressed by some of the anonymous badge numbers who have lived with this case since last November.

Their work, it was learned, eventually flushed out the informant in the case the one described as being willing to talk only in the presence of Mayor Alioto. The man was in police hands and talking days before Alioto entered this phase of the "Zebra" investigation. Some 10 hours of interrogation had been logged on tape before the date on which Alioto was approached at an East Bay political meeting by an attorney who told him he had a client who was ready to talk. The informant had provided names, descriptions of vehicles, the hiding places in those vehicles where weapons would be found, and the location of a gruesome murder center where kidnaped victims, mostly hitchhikers, asserl-edly were taken for killing and dismemberment. A special 28-man detail of black policemen was formed and divided into teams to keep the named suspects under 24-hour surveillance.

These were the undercover persons Chief Don Scott described publicly on April 23 as part of the massive Zebra search. He said only that they were assigned "to gather intelligence we might not otherwise get." That item didn't make their work any easier, considering the true nature of their assignment. The Zebra cult already was skittish as the result of earlier announcements. It was on April 25, according to the Mayor, that the East Bay lawyer approached him first with word of his prospectively taklative client. When the police, days earlier, had made contact with the informant, they slashed him away in a closely guarded room at a major hotel.

Before the police turned up their informant. Chief Scott's public statements had consistently talked of "the" Zebra Case killer. On April 20, he defended the Zebra stop-and-search operation as "necessary to stop this rotten, rotten killer. Three days later, he was assigning those black officers to their surveillance detail. Seven days later, Mayor Alioto was holding his emergency meeting (3 a.m.

to 8:30 a.m.) at City Hall, described then as "with his closest circle of aides," And in a public statement, the Mayor was saymg that the streets "must be Sec Back Tagc, Col. 5 Par'y'Ps successor lo Brcmdt Associated Press BONN West Germany's ruling Social Democratic Party nominated sharp -tongued Finance Minister Helmut Schmidt today to succeed Chancellor Willy Brandt following Brandt's unexpected resignation. Brandt, 60, whose policies for East-West detente during 4V2 years in office, won him the Nobel Peace Prize, fell victim to a spy scandal on top of state election setbacks. Foreign Minister Walter Scheel, Brandt's vice chancellor and the leader of the junior parner in the coalition government, took over the caretaker cabinet left by Brandt. He will serve until Schmidt's election by the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament.

Heinz Kuehn, deputy chairman of the Social Democrats, said Brandt himself proposed the 55 year old finance minister as his successor. Brandt is expected to retain the party chairmanship Brandt ad apparently ruled out any chance of being drafted back into the Premiership. A close friend said last night: "He really means to resign. This is his farewell to the political scene. He felt that to ask for the resignation of one or two ministers to blame them for the spy affair would have been cowardly and dishonest, and he wanted at least to save the honor of his party and show there was still one leader of integrity in the Western world." Brandt was greeted at his party's parliamentary caucus today with thunderous applause and cheers.

A bouquet of 50 red roses lay on his desk. Party sources later said Brandt told the parliament members that he resigned because, of a sense of personal responsibility as well as political responsibility in the spy affair. "This is not a time to yammer," he was quoted as saying. The party leadership ex- See Back Page, Col. 1 Emptied "I think it's a shabby, disgusting, immoral performance," he said.

Asked if he included the President, he replied, "by each of those persons according to what he said." "I am enormously disturbed that there was not enough showing of moral indignation," Scott said. However, he declined to say anything further and, when asked if he still thinks the transcripts "exculpate" the President, said he stands on a statement he made last Friday. At that time, he said the full transcripts of the March 21 meetings involving President Nixon and former counsel John Dean are consistent with the summaries and excerpts he was shown last winter. However, in a speech on the Senate floor a short time later, Scott said: "I am not going to take any position supporting any action which involved any form of immorality or criminality as transcripts indicate." While declining to comment specifically on Scott's statement, White House Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren said: "I don't feel it's fair to judge INSIDE Step outside Nixon to Examiner News Services WASHINGTON President Nixon will provide no more Watergate materials to the House Judiciary Committee or special, prosecutor Leon Jaworski, his lawyer 1 No tapes plete their inquiries. He refused to say whether Nixon would comply with a Supreme Court decision ordering him to surrender the 44 additional tapes which Jaworski has subpenaed.

St. Clair disclosed that Jaworski had visited the White House in an attempt to negotiate a compromise. St. Clair was questioned about the request from the Judiciary Committee for 20 tapes on the ITT antitrust settlement and 46 on the $2 million Nixon campaign contribution pledged by milk producers. He said many of those conversations occurred before the White House taping system was installed and "we don't believe there are any" tapes on those two matters.

St. Clair was asked if he believed the House committee could cite Nixon's refusal to comply as grounds for his impeachment. "I don't believe it will be See Back Page, Col. 4 Watergate aide says Reinecke sought a deal Jaworski: announced today. White House attorney James D.

St. Clair told reporters that the President had decided that both investigative bodies had enough information to com- that if Mr. Reinecke cooperated or gave us any specific information, he would not be indicted." Reinecke, a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, was accused last month of lying to the Senate Judiciary Committee about his role in ITT's offer to help finance the 1972 GOP National Convention, assert-edly in exchange for a Justice Department agreement to drop a major antitrust suit against the conglomerate. Parker yesterday set the trial on the charge for July 15. New York News WASHINGTON -Lt.

Gov. Ed Reinecke of California, offered to testify against former Attorney General John Mitchell if the government would agree not to charge him in the ITT case, an assistant Watergate prosecutor has said. Joseph Connolly, who held several discussions with Reinecke's attorney, Frank Pagliaro made the statement in an affidavit yesterday. It was filed with U.S. District Judge Barring-ton Parker and said that "at no time in any of these conversations did I ever say ammo in "Miss Tiffany Peck" will make a very good American.

If you don't think so, step outside." Bob Considine, Page 20. Beyond Wounded Knee The Indians won their share of battles with the white men, but lost the peace through treaties. Page 4. The nostalgia craze Shoo-bop, shoo-bop, doo waa. Shoo-bop, shoo-bop, doowaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Page 33. hideout points to SLA bomb making Obituaries 37 Scene 19-23 Shipping 57 Sports 49-54 Theaters 24-28 TV-Radio Vital Statistics 37 Want Ads 38-47 Weather Bridge 34 Business 55-5!) City Printing 37 Comics 34-35 Crossword Puzzle 35 Death Notices 37 Editorial 32 Horoscope 34 Movies 24-26 "They were making little ones out of big ones," one officer said, explaining that the gang was making rifles and shotguns into concealable weapons. This sawing and drilling could account for the noises heard by Mrs. Lolabelle Evans, a blind woman living in the apartment directly below the SLA pad. Mrs.

Evans said she had heard sounds "like they were drilling through the floor." All the material found in the apartment a van load of it has been sent to FBI laboratories for study. One source said that using powder extracted from See Back Page, Col. 5 By Gale Cook Evidence found in the abandoned Symbionese Liberation Army hideout here suggests the fugitives were trying to make a bomb. FBI agents and San Francisco policemen who entered the apartment at 1827 Golden Gate ave. reportedly found more than 100 shotgun shells from which the lead pellets had been removed.

Also found, according to the report, was a lunchbag full or carbine and rifle cartridges from which the powder had been removed. "Together it was the makings of a pretty fair bomb," one source aaid. The combination of pellets and powder would indicate the SLA had in mind an anti-personnel bomb. It was not revealed whether powder and pellets were recovered. When police first arrived at the cluttered apartment early Friday and discovered the empty shells, one investigator said, "we walked on egg shells, believing the place was booby trapped." Officers also found sawed-off gun stocks and gun barrels in the apartment.

Weather: Dampish 2 p.m. Forecast: Coastal overcast tonight and tomorrow with local morning drizzle but mostly sunny inland sections in afternoons. Sunny and warmer Thursday. Full report, Page 29. 1.