The Times Standard from Eureka, California • Page 36

36 --Wednesday, June 14, 1972 JUMES-STANDAKD Eureka. California SHOP DOWNTOWN EUREKA THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Extortion Attempt Results in Arrest HOLLYWOOD (UPD-Five persons, including a juvenile, been arrested on extortion and grand theft charges foi allegedly drugging the 45-year old son of actor John Carradine and holding him prisoner tot three days in Hollywood-area hotels. Sheriff's deputies said Richard Carradine told them he met two men at a Hollywood bai late Thursday and. aftei several drinks, allowed them to drive him home because persuaded him he was too drunk to drive. Instead, Carradine said, they took him to a holel, where the Anti-Drink Measures By Soviets MOSCOW (UPD--In its strongest drive against alcoholism in years, the Soviet Union announced new measures today to prevent excessive drinking, including massive construction of entertainment facilities.

A Politburo resolution on behalf of the Central Committee, the Soviet Union's ruling body, published in all Moscow newspapers, pledged "to wage a decisive, resolute and ceaseless struggle against drunkenness and alcoholism." The decree authorized party committees throughout the Soviet Union to "work out concrete steps to widen political social (and) cultural campaigns to increase effectiveness of both social and administrative measures against people excessively taking hard liquors." It called on the Ministries of Health and Education and the editors use all the media available to improve anti-alcohol propaganda. New health resorts, skating rinks and movie theaters were ordered built "to provide more adequate entertainment for working people during their free time." Alcoholism has been a major problem in the Soviet Union for years, but veteran Soviet observers said today's announced measures directed against it were the most wide- ranging ever attempted. Expensive Paintings Returned WORCESTER, Mass. (UPD-- Four well-known paintings valued at nearly $2 million have been returned to the Worcester Art Museum almost as mysteriously as they disappeared. Two Gauguins, a Rembrandt and a Picasso, stolen from the museum's walls May 17, were found in "reasonably good condition," said Police Chief George D.

he declined to reveal how or where the paintings were recovered. Three men and a woman were arrested last month in connection with the theft and the wounding of a museum guard. The Bartholomew" by "Brooding Woman" and "Head of a Woman" by Gauguin and "Laughing Woman" by Picasso --were originally valued at $1 million but O'Neill doubled the estimate in announcing their recovery. Laurence Maloy, museum administrator, said after examining the paintings, "Damage was slight. The paintings are back at the museum and will be put on public display." The Rembrandt, however, may not be hung for six weeks.

"There is some water damage but It appears to be to the varnish and not the painting," Maloy snid. Special Course TALLAHASSEE, Fin. (HIM) --About 400 state police officers taking week of special training nl Florida State University, preparing for the nutlonal political conventions flnrtlng In Miami Beach next month, used one of his credit cards to rent a room, and drugged i The nest day, he said they drove him lo his bank where he withdrew $500. Then, he said, they moved him lo another hotel where they continued to ply him with drugs. Meanwhile, Carradine said they took the $500 and used his credit cards to purchase $1,000 In jewelry and clolhins.

He told deputies he managed lo escape Sunday night when the men guarding him dozed off. Arrested in the case Sunday night and early Monday were Bill Gamble. 26. and Guy Smith, 24, both of Hollywood; Reginald Lawrence, 21, of Los Angeles; Linda Mae Grandberry, 10, of San Bernardino; and a 17-year-old juvenile whose identity was not disclosed. U.

S. Chess Champ 'Has (UPD-Ainuricaii chess champion Bobby Fischer is "egocentric, capricious, ob slinate and hot-tempered" but has an "approximately equal" chance to defeat Soviet world champion Boris Spassky in their title match next month, Tass siiirl today. A commentary by the news agency's chess commentator, Yakuv Rukhlin, said the match for the world championship thai begins in Reykjavik, July 2. may depend on "wlio will be first to seize initiative." Tass called Spassky, 35, "a universal chess player. "His rich intuition enables Spassky to effect sharp tactical turns iii a fluid involved position," Rokhlin said.

The strategic concepts of Fischer are much different. American Jewish Girl Joins Vigil in London LONDON (UPD--An American Jewish girl, whose Soviet husband was arrested minutes a she left Moscow Monday, joined a vigil early today outside the Soviet embassy. Judy Silver Shapiro, 27, Cincinnati, after arriving in London met an Israeli immigrant wife from Kussia who has been staging a hunger strike near the embassy to protest Moscow's refusal to let her Soviet husband emigrate. Friends of Mrs. Shapiro said three policemen arrested her husband of five days, Gavriel Shapiro, 27.

a few minutes after he saw her off at Moscow airport. "The policemen took him away said he would be at Moscow police station 127. But friends went there and were told he wasn't there, that he had been taken to the central office of the Moscow Criminal Court," Mrs. Shapiro snid. She married Gavriel, a Moscow chemical engineer, in a Jewish religious ceremony in his parents' apartment Thurs- a y.

Religious marriages, however, are not recognizer under Soviet law and Mrs. Shapiro's visa expired before they could be wed in a civi ceremony. The Israeli Wife, Irina Markish, 21, has been fastin oulside the embassy since Sunday 'because Soviet authorities have refused to allow hei husband, David, 35, to join her in Israel. Mrs. Shapiro, who plans to return for a civil ceremony in Moscow Aug.

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