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2 Dead, 2 Hurt In Police Chase AkLMftjFribtint ijt.Jsn 31,1970 3-k 4 Protest Buildup of OEDCI Aid BRENTWOOD A high speed duse at more than 100 miles an hour ended near here last night with two dead and two seriously In-' jured. Police were unable to identify the two persons killed because their bodies were burned beyond recognition. Taken to the Contra Costa County Medical Center at Martinez were Ralph Rodri- IMPORTER Bail Jumper Scott To Return guez. 19. and Louis Ponce, also 19, both of Brentwood.

Police said the car in which the fouc were riding was wanted in connection with a burglary investigation. It waa spotted In this small eastern Contra Costa town by officers who gave chase when the driver refused to stop. The car spun out of control about a mile and a half south of here at Highway 4 and Sellers Avenue, hit a tree and burst into flames. Officers said the persons killed were under the burning car. The other two were thrown dear of the auto.

Rodrigues, whose address is route 1, Box IS, was listed in critical condition with a fractured leg and bums. Ponce, who lives at 1055 Dainty suffered bums and possible chest injuries. He was in serious condition night. The bodies of the two unidentified victims were taken to Bartbelds Funeral Home in Brentwood. None of the police officers involved in the chase was hurt.

Three members of the Oakland antipoverty council and its past secretary yesterday complained that executive director Percy Moore is improperly drawing upon federal money in building a rainy day" fund for use if the council should lose Government support 4 2k Moore Gets Support of Labor Unit They alleged Moore was using federal accounts to back up pledges to the fund for the itiming year made by staffer A the (iakland Economic Development Council Inc (OEDCI). They asked the regional U.S Office of Economic Op-port urn i to take over the Plans. focJhftJ 9Z0Mt5S Oakland. Page art are. discussed by.

-(Irom left) Brooke Fisher, choreographer, Gene Shore, executive director; Laomia McCoy, reigning Miss Oakland, and Barbara Anderson, 1966 winner. Applications are now being accepted and may be obtained from the Oakland Jaycees office, 1324 Webster St. Shore urged civic and social organizations to sponsor candidates. Pageant Planning 3 Soledad Slayings 'Justified' Overdose of Pills CityCenter Accident, Suicide? Plans Hlt By Caucus By LLOYD BOLES Tribune Staff Writer poverty council "until peace and tranquility can be restored nd the poverty program in iakland becomes the vehicle that will involve the poor people in the decision-making process Moore categorically denied any irregular uwu. DonaUoo-from employes were "deducted purely voluntarily from paychecks as they are issued." he said Moore announced recently he would contribute one-fourth oT his personal $20,000 annual salary to start a fund built with contributions to keep the East Oakland-Fruitvale Plan ning Council going fter federal funds were vetoed.

The same fund would also help the OEDCI if it were to lose federal support, he said TMQinplauit.s were made )n a letter to Carl W. Shaw, OEO assistant regional director. San Francisco, by Ralph Williams and Harry Avington. two of Mayor John H. Reading's 13 appointees on the 39-member poverty council; Booker Emdry, a West Oakland target area member and Mrs.

Geneva Richardson, recently ousted secretary of the poverty council The four present or past council members also said they believe OEDCI staffers were acting improperly in using their regular working hours to collect signatures on petitions "directed against Oakland Mayor John H. Reading and Gov. Ronald Reagan. Moore insisted his staffers had the right to solicit signatures for petitions even on poverty council time. There is no conflict with any regulations or rules insofar as I know.

This is community action and it is not prohibited, he said. An OEO spokesman said' he could not give an opinion on the legality of OEDCI staffers using their working time to circulate the petitions until he could see and evaluate the nature of the petition itself. In their letter to Shawylfle exican Center The executive committee of the Alameda County Central labor Council has endorsed efforts to get further federal anti-poverty ffKds'for the Oakland Economic Develop-mentTouncil. Inc. In effect the labor leaders also backed up Percy Moore, executive director fth Moore, to an appearance before the committee yesterday, blamed Mayor John Heading for the OEDCI's difficulties with the U.S Office of Economic Opportunity in obtaining further funds to support its anti-poverty activities.

The OEO, dissatisfied with the OEDCI operation and internal bickering, has not approved full 1970 financing for the agency. The labor leaders also jumped into another versy Gov. Ronald Reagans veto of a $234,000 OEO advocacy planning grant to continue operation of the East Oakland Fruitvale Planning Council urging the mayor and city council to ask the governor to reconsider. Mayor Reading has refused already to intervene, but has promised that he will seek other ways to get federal funding to continue antipoverty programs in Oakland The mayor has contended that the funds could be spent more effectively to help the citys poor, particularly in employment, a i i and placement. The labor council leaders authorized their executive secretary-treasurer, Richard K.

Grouix, to present their views to the city council next Tues- day night. Yannell. 21, was nia State Automobile Association. When the parents sought to to a sleeping bag room floor of his Tax Scandal Payments to 2 Law Firms Fees totaling $350,000 have been paid by the City of San Francisco to two law firms which went to court to force dty officials to investigate tax assessment practices. City assessor Russell Wolden was sent to prison as a result of the investigations.

The firms, Thorpe, Foley Jarvis of Hayward and Low-enthal Lowenthal of San Francisco were paid under a fee schedule based on the amount of back taxes recovered. The city recovered over $9 million in taxes as a result of the disclosures. The award to the two firms was made in 1966 by State Appellate Justice A. F. Bray but it was appealed by San Francisco.

A final appeal was recently denied by the State Supreme Court. Another $70,000 in interest -on the fees is due to be paid the two firms within the next few months. Ball-jumping Richard Scott, 40, who has turned up in the strangest places since he was arrested two years ago in Concprd on a marijuana smuggling charge, has reported from Greece tiat he is ready and willing to return to A U.S.' Embassy spokesman in Athens said Scott wanted to return home to put an end to his problems. The spokesman said he Is hope(bl that Scott will depart for the U.S. sometime today.

Scett was arrested in Athens Wednesday by Greek police gnd was held pending extradition formalities. was his third arrest by pjlice of three different nation related to charges filed against him after 300 pouiids of marijuana, with an estiiftated worth of $500,000, were found on a plane unloaded it Buchanan Airport in CondDrd. After his Concord bail was redded from $25,000 to $3,000, he made bail but later failed to Ippear in Contra Costa Cotugy Superior Court. A Jear later, while ing ski resort in Israeli-occupied Syria, he, consented to gn interview and picture storjr with a New York newspaperman. Contra Costa Sheriff's Sgt.

Melton Volk happened across the guide and picture and reported that, though the resort developer did not identify him If as Scott, theres no doubf, its the same guy. Volk immediately notified the iFBI, and Scott subse-quedlly was arrested on extradition papers filed with the Israel Ministry of Justice. Soott appealed the extradition jorder with Israeli courts, andjie was freed on $25,000 bail pending the outcome. Then a week ago the U.S. State Department informed Contra Costa officials Scott had disappeared again andvas the object of search by Israeli police.

Four days later( Athens police; found him and followed Stte Department requests thatle be held without bail. Wllen arrested in Concord, Scott gave his Jddress as 944 Forest Alamo, and listed Ills occupation as an investor. Tlje New York newspaper article identified him as a Newt York and Florida real who was building $350,000 resort in Israeli-held Golan Heights. Members of Uie Oakland Black Caucus said yesterday that no serious consideration is being given to black people to the financing and ownership of a proposed $93 million City Center project proposed by the Dillingham Corp. for downtown Oakland.

At the same time black leaders voiced support for Elmer Young the black executive from Philadelphia who has been named project manager of development by Dillingham. Weve checked him (Young) out on what he did in Philadelphia and we know where he is at. Hes a brother and we say welcome to Oakland, Paid Cobb, Biack Caucus chairman, told a meeting of the Oakland Citizens Committee for Urban Renewal which was attended by Young. But you can bring four Elmers in here but if there is nobody to back him up, we wont get anywhere, Cobb said. I think the bag has been closed and that there is no opportunity left for yeal black ownership and equity in this project.

He asked for firm commitments from the city and Dillingham Corp. that the black community will participate at the ownership level of this project, and not just operate a shoe shop. John Williams, executive director of the Oakland Re-devlopment Agency offered assurances that there will be all kinds of meetings on the equity Question before project plans are completed. He VVV collect on the policy the insurance companies balked. It claimed that Yannell committed suicide.

Unis voiding the policy and refused to pay. The parents sued. For four days the jury of nine men and three women to the courtroom of Superior Court Judge Folger Emerson heard a torrent of conflicting testimony. They began deliberations yesterday, but after three hours were still so far from a decision that Emerson sent them home for the weekend. The suing parents claim through their attorney, Mike Brown, that their son was young, vigorous, healthy, happy and had a zest to live.

Additionally he was clean cut and well-groomed. Not so, says the defense team headed by Atty. John P. Herlihy. They claim and produced witnesses to prove it that young Yannell was a brooding, pot-smoking, disheveled, agnostic, college dropout who often talked of death.

Additionally, he disliked. and Was unable to communicate with his father, the defense said. All these traits, says the defense, made young Yannell a prime suicide suspect. The defense also produced a toxicologist who testified that to his opinion Yannell took at least twenty 100 milligram sleeping capsules, hardly, he said, the average dose. IWHgV UVOV.

racy Depot Pill Thefts Revealed TRACY The former security chief at Tracy Defense Depot says that hundreds of thousands of dangerous pills were stolen from the depot in 1968. Retired Army Lt. Col. T. D.

Clifton said in a speech to the Tracy Kiwanis Club that the investigation turned up one informant who reported buying 500,000 pills from a depot employe over a nine-month period. He said present security at the depot is adequate under its new commander, Air Force Col. Joseph J. Pounder. Clifton, who is now security director for the AMK Corporation in Los Angelev said he has offered to testify before a congressional committee about what he termed lackadaisical attitudes at federal installations.

To Open Today BERKELEY The first cultural center forJHexican-Americans in the Berkeley area will open this evening at 1631 San Pablo Ave. with a fiesta beginning at 5 oclock. University of California Extension is currently underwriting housing expenses for the center. Plans call for the teaching of English and other subjects. Mrs.

Aida Castillo is head of the Board of Directors. The center was organized with the assistance of Pedro Ruiz, graduate student at U.C. Berkeley; John Gomez, coordinator to the human relations office, Berkeley Unified School District, and George Scotian, manager of the urban Jffairs department ef University Extension. four charged that after OED Cl staffers authorized payroll deductions for the coming year, Moore collects the full amount and places it to a strike fund that he. has absolute control of.

Moore denied he had any control over the fund. As an example, Williams, Avington, Mrs. Richardson and Emery cited an employe making $7,000 a year. He might authorize a strike fund deduction of $700 for the whole year. They alleged Moore instead immediately would collect the entire $700 by drawing it from another federal account because' he hoped to eventually receive the entire $700 in installments from the employe.

If OEDCI is not refunded, then the Federal Government would stand to lose that money from the Surplus that OED-' Cl has in their accounts, the The sleeping pills Yannell agreed to meet with Turner, SALINAS The fatal shooting of three prisoners at Sole-dad State Prison by a guard was ruled justifiable homicide yesterday by the Monterey County Grand Juryv Guard O. G. Miller shot the inmates Jan. 13. He said it was necessary to fire the shots in order to break up a fight in the maximum security area.

All three prisoners killed were black. A white guard was beaten to death, apparently in retaliation for the shootings by Miller Jan. 16. Three black torn a were subsequently charged with the crime. -Meanwhile, the California State Employes Association yesterday said staff shortages at prisons are at the breaking point.

Association General Manager Thomas T. Jordan said in a letter to Gov. Ronald Reagan, Four deaths at the Soledad institution and similar disturbing incidents at youth authority institutions are symptomatic of conditions requiring your immediate attention. He asked Reagan for in-. creased staffing and security measures.

Prisoners at state institutions have grown more hardened in the past five years, he told the govenor. Their crimes are more serious, their behavior more recalcitrant. He said inmate attacks on prison staff members have risen from 33 in 1964 to 70 in 1969, a rise of il2 per cent. Jordan said the Associations Correction and Youth Authority Council will hold a meeting on a problem in two Arabs Say They'll Train Panthers NEW YORK (UPI) The Black Panther party and the Arab Fatah are establishing close ties of solidarity and discussing possibilities of Arabs training Panther members in guerrilla wa tactics, CBS News reported last night. Correspondent Richard C.

Hottelet said an A1 Fatah spokesman told him the next step in the discussion W3s for Black Panther leader El-dridge Cleaver, who now lives in Algiers, to go to Jordan for further talks. Hottelet said the spokesman told him Arab leaders are giving serious consideration to training Black Panthers on A1 Fatah bases and have them actually take part in Arab operations in the Middle East. Hottelet said the Panther training would include combat operations, sabotage and other tactics Hottelet saji the spokesman told him: When the time comes, the Panthers will carry out quick and deep strikes to the United States, assassinations of men responsible for the policy of discrimination, from high to low, and sabotage to factories and capitalist installations. 1 The A1 Fatah spokesman said Black Panthers are already being trained to North Korea, Cuba and North Vietnam. Jacob V.

found dead on the livmg parents trailer home to Castro Valley on April 7, 1967. The Alameda County Coroners Office reported he died of an overdose of sleeping pills but didnt say whether this was by accident or by design. Did young Yannell commit suicide? Or was the overdose an accident? Theres $20,000 riding on the answer, for which an Alameda County Superior Court jury will resume deliberations on Monday. Some time before Yannell died his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Julius Yannell (hes a pharmacist and sheS a nurse), purchased a $20,000 accident policy on his life from the Insurance Company of North America through the Califor- Youth Found Guilty of 2 Slayings MARTINEZ A Contra Costa Superior Court Jury yesterday found Christopher W. Williams guilty of two counts of first degree murder. Judge Robert J. Cooney set Tuesday at 10 a.m. for the start of the trials penalty phase for the 18-year-old Pittsburg youth.

The seven women and five men on the jury deliberated for four hours after a thrde-week trial. They found the youth guilty of the deaths of Rheinhold Flath, 59, Pittsburg, and Kenneth McCleary, 52, of Martina Flath was stabbed July 19 and died four days later. McCleary was beaten to death with a tire iron Sept. 1. Dep.

Dist. Atty. John D. Hatzenbuhler argued that both murders were committed during the commission of robberies. Bandits Raid Jewelry Shop RICHMOND Two men were slugged and beaten in a hotel jewelry shop yesterday by three bandits who stole watches valued at 4580 and smashed some display cases.

Police said the first eyed the display eases from outside of the shop, in the Hotel Don, at 10th Street and Nevto Avenue, then entered the store and asked for a catalogue. Owner Harold E. Green, 52, said he was hit from behind and an employe, Ralph Lar-ock, 58, was beaten to the floor, apparently by only one of the men. Both men suffered cuts and bruises but were not hospitalized. in High Places NEW YORK (UPI) Howard J.

Samuels 17-yeap-old son of a Democrat candidate for governor, went to court yesterday on charges of possessing hashish. ingested were described as strong. Both his mother and father testified they didn't know where their son got the pills. There were no bottles and no notes found near his body. The picture introduced into evidence of Yannell shows handsome, smiling, gll groomed young man.

Its a puzzling case for the jurors. Cobb and other black leaders to discuss their proposals. Billie Sol Loses Bid for Parole WASHINGTON (UPI) -Billie Sol Estes yesterday lost his bid for parole from prison where hi has served five years of a 15-year term for fraudulent credit dealings in building a West Texas finan- AND BEAR IT Bf Lichty you trying to poison me, Adele? them oddities flavorings nd tenderizers you boon serving mo 4or a year have bean banned by the Government!".