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PRICE TEN CENTS. SPOKANE, WASH. FBI Kills 2 Hijackers: One Slain yfinryvrt yyfvyJ'v yTCfw snmn up into the the agents fired one Alexiev, felling Alexiev raised pointed a pistol the agent time killing proach the plane for a bargaining session. During all this time, the second hijacker, Azmanoff, remained at the back of the plane with a pistol trained on the passengers. Robert Gebhardt, special agent in charge of the FBIs San Francisco office, gave this Alexiev.

account of what occurred Meanwhile, the next: stormed rushed wing rarrp plane. One of these shotgun blast at him. When himself up and at the FBI man, fired again, this the back of the shots and that all seven went home. Gebhardt said he was not pleased that three passengers were hurt it was extremely unfortunate. He described the operation was a calculated risk.

The dead passenger was identified as E.H. Stanley Carter, 66, of gu i 1, Quebec. Canadian Killed In Montreal, a spokesman for Canadian National Railways said Carter was a longtime conductor with the railway. The two wounded passengers were identified as: Victor Sen Yung, 56-year-old character actor who has por? trayed Hop Sing, the cook at the Cartwright ranch in the television series. Bonanza, the last 13 years.

He suffered a single genshot wound in his left side and was described in fair condition. Leo Robert Gormley, 46, of Van Nuys, who was in fair condiiton after being treated for a gunshot wound in hii lower chest. Gormley has a history of prior heart trouble and was placed under intensive care. hijacker in plane, Azmanoff, fired four or five shots at the agents. The bullets went wild, hitting and killing one passenger and wounding two others.

Azmanoff, after apparently emptying his pistol, ducked behind a wooden panel at the rear of the cabin. Blast Through Panel The agent who had shot Alexiev, carefully aimed his shotgun down the aisle of the crowded plane and fired a blast through the panel. The FBI man in the pilots uniform, revolver in hand, crept up and looked behind the panel. Azmanoff leaped at him with a knife. The agent shot Azmanoff four times twice in the head killing him.

Gebhardt said later that the FBI men fired a total of three shotgun blasts and four pistol Agent Poses As Pilot An FBI agent donned a pilots uniform and, carrying the $800,000 and four parachutes, drove out to the jet in a PSA station wagon. Alexiev sent a stewardess down the ramp with an order that the agent take off his clothes. After the agent stripped to his underwear, Alexiev told him he could dress ana come to the planes door. The agent somehow managed to conceal his pistol. At this time, the three other agents from the boat, each armed with a shotgun, were under a wing of the plane.

Shortly after 3:30 p.m., the agent in the pilots uniform walked up the ramp anl stepped into the plane. Alexiev ordered him to the rear of the plane. The three agents under the Aclor Wounded in IlijacKin" Victor S. Yung, 56, who plays role in Bonanza was one of the woiftded passengers. awwwswMwwwwwwMwwwwwvwmwwwwvwwwwwwwwww (Also see Air Pirate, page 27) SAN FRANCISCO (LAT) Two hijackers with Russian names were shot and killed by FBI agents Wednesday as they attempted to flee to Siberia with $800,000 and parachutes in a small Pacific Southwest Airlines jet carrying 84 other persons.

One passenger also was killed and two others were wounded when the FBI men shot it out with the armed hijackers in the packed cabin of the Boeing 737 airliner parked on a runway at San Francisco International Airport. In order to get into a position to rush the plane, one FBI agent entered wearing a pilots uniform and carrying the parachutes and ransom while three other agents used a small Coast Guard boat to approach from the bay side of the runway. Hijackers Identified The FBI identified the dead hijackers as Dimitr Alexiev, 28, and Michael Dimitrov Az-manoff, also 28. Alexiev was identified through a California drivers license he carried and Azmanoff through an immigration and naturalization card. The dead and wounded were taken to Peninsula Hospital in Burlingame in two Coast Guard helicopters.

The plane was hijacked at 10:10 a.m. PDT after leaving Sacramento, airport on a flight to IIollywood-Burbank Airport via San Francisco. It landed at San Francisco International, then took off again 20 minutes later and circled the San Francisco area until 11:45 p.m. when it landed once again. Alexiev, armed with two automatic pistols, stationed himself in the cockpit of the plane and told the pilot, Capt.

Dennis Waller of San Diego, that he and his companion wanted $800,000, two parachutes and charts of Siberia, the FBI said. Alexiev said he wanted to fly to Siberia via Canada and Alaska. At 2:25 p.m., the Coast Guard boat containing three FBI agents pulled up along the San Francisco Bay side of the It, runway. The agents apparently made their way through grass and hid mfar the plane. Alexiev appeared indecisive as to how he wanted the money and parachutes delivered to the plane.

Then he radioed word that one person could ap-j McGovern hails verdict Nixon Told War Effort Is Gaining "the convention can proceed in a lawful, orderly and satisfactory manner to ratify a platform and nominate a candidate who can take that platform to the country in a victorious campaign in the fall. The appeals court in Washington ruled null and void the action of the Credentials Committee in stripping McGovern of 151 of the 271 delegates he won in the California primary June 6. (Also see "Court, page 2.) MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Sen. George McGovern said Wednesday the U.S.

Court of Appeals reaffirmed the choice of the California voters and the rules of the Democratic party by overruling a Credentials Committee verdict that deprived him of 151 presidential nominating votes. In a statement issued by his Washington headquarters, the Democratic front-runner said he hopes now that iWwmwwtwmwwwwwwHm Pompidou Names Another Premier PARIS (AP) President Georges Pompidou fired Jacques Chaban-Delmas, his premier for three years, after a scries of scandals rocked the unity of the Gaullist party. With legislative elections due before next march, Pompidou Wednesday appointed hardline Gaullist Pierre Messmer, 56, to form a new government likely to include many of the leading figures of the outgoing administration. Its composition is expected to be announced Thursday or Fri-. A PIERRE MESSMER Hard-Line Gaullist Passenger Injured in San Francisco Skyjacking Unidentified man is wheeled into Peninsula Hospital after shootout hi jetliner.

SAN CLEMENTE, (WP) President Nixon received a generally "optimistic report on the military situation South Vietnam Wednesday but little to cheer him on the negotiating trout. Informed sources said that Maj. Gen. Meander M. Haig deputy assistant for nation al security alfairs, reported optimistically to the President on the militarv front following his visit to South Vietnam and Cambodia.

Haig returned here Tuesday and reported ti Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger, assistant for national security a'faiis, Wednesday afternoon. These sources acknowledged however, that there is no apparent progress in the President diplomatic efforts to encourage a negotiated settlement. The comment was made even though both sides have agreed to return to the Faris peace talks July 13. Hopes that these talks may produce an early settlement apparently have evaporated since Kissingers return irom China last month.

Daily Meetings Haig, accompanied by se'en other officials, visited South Vietnam and Cambodia ovei the weekend in one of a series of on-the-spot surveys he has made for the President. In addition to conferences with American military and diplomatic officials, Haig met with President Nuyen Van Tbieu in Saigon and with Cambodian chief of State Loo Nol in Phnom Penh. Haig declined to see newsmen and further details on his report were unavailable. Despite the apparent hiatus in the diplomatic attempt to settle the war the President has met every day since his arrival here Saturday with Kissinger. White House press secretary Ronald L.

Ziegler, when asked about Communist claims that ships have moved through the minefields 1 i North Vietnamese ports, said we have no evidence that this is true. REPAIRS BLAMED Syrian Chief Talks About Russ Secrets Record Fatalities Counted on Road U.S. Says More Floods Will Hit North Vietnam Pompidous dismissal of him came as a suprise, however, despite widespread speculation Chaban-Delmas might resign before the elections in favor ol a premier who could reunite the ranks before the elections. Under the constitution laid down by De Gaulle, the head of state may change his governments whether or not the National Assembly has confi dence in them, unlike most West European nations where the head of state is a titular figure. AiikiiM fnn day.

Messmer, minister for overseas territories under Cha-ban Delmas, served for nine years as defense minister for President Charles de Gaulle under Pompidou's premiership. Clashes Occur Like Chaban-Delmas. one of the first to rally to De Gaulles Free France movement in 1940, Messmer was a founder of a pressure group designed to press its view of Gaullist orthodoxy after the general resigned in 1969. Chaban-Delmas, whose dynamic war effort made him a brigadier-general at the age of 29, became premier when Pompidou succeeded De Gaulle as president, llis more liberal interpretation of Gaullism and calls for a "new society led to early clashes with the orthodox wing of the party. But the real pressure on his post canie in the last few months.

A series of financial scandals exploded involving Gaullist deputies or dose associates. Chaban-Delmas, 57, went on television nationwide to explain how perfectly legal tax loopholes enabled him to pay only minimal income tax for several years. The grumbling at Chaban Delmas was heightened when investigations by upper and lower house commissions re vealed an extensive payola racket in the state-run telcvi sion network. Chaban-Delmas who had declared his confid cnce in its senior officers quickly named new directors. By BERNARD GWERTZMAN Holiday traffic accidents took a record number of lives for an Independence Day weekend.

Authorities reported that 757 persons were killed on the nations highways during the four-day observance which began at 6 p.m. Friday and ended at midnight Tuesday. The record for a Fourth of July weekend was 732 in 1967 when the holiday also ran four days. The count last year, a three-day observance, was 638. The National Safety Council had estimated in advance that 800 to 900 persons might be killed during the 102 hours of Ex-President to Undergo More Kays MOSCOW (AP) President Hafez Assad of Syria came to Moscow on Wednesday night for talks with Kremlin leaders, who were reported worried that captured Syrian officers may have given Israel secret information on Soviet arms.

The well-informed Lebanese newspaper An Nahar said the Russians and Syrians are concerned about "secret information on Soviet armament in Syria that Israel may have obtained from the five officers abducted June 21 in Lebanon. Assad was met at Moscows Airport by President Nikolai V. Podgorny and Premier Alexei N. Kosygin. The visitors schedule has not been made public but he is expected to remain here until Saturday.

Apart from talks on the Syrian officers, Assad is expected to confer with the Russians about increased Soviet economic and military aid to Syria. monsoon season which has just begun. Last summer, when there was no American bombing of North Vietnam, that country suffered its worst flooding in many years. Administration experts believe the dikes were heavily damaged by those floods and have backed up their views with articles that appeared in the Hanoi press. A senior State Department official showed a newsman a translation of an article from the June 2 issue of the local Hanoi newspaper, Hanoi Moi (New Hanoi).

Written by Tran Duy Hung, chairman of the Hanoi administrative committee, the article said "In some places, the repair of the dike portions that were damaged by torr -ial WASHINGTON (NYT) State Department officials said Wednesday there was a strong likelihood that North Vietnam would be flooded later this summer, but they put the blame on North Vietnams dike system rather than American bombing raids. State Department officers did not deny that some bombs were falling on the dikes, but they again insisted that there has been no systematic targeting of the dike system which runs throughout the Red River basin. North Vietnam in recent weeks has mounted a major international campaign accusing the United States of deliberately bombing the dikes to precipitate flooding during the rains in 1971 has not yet met technical requirements. A number of thin and weakened dikes which are probably full of termite colonies and Ve not been detected for repair, it said. The article said each individual and locality must actively take part in the current dike building operation, because' "there is not much time before, the torrential rain season.

Repair methods must firmly gra -d in case the dikes are eroded, eaten away; broken through or washed over by water. We must organize many dike repair exercises, including cases in which the dikes are attacked by the enemy, it said. The article also condemned what it called "the warlike Nixon clique for destroying parts of tlie dike system by bombing. Jhe State Department officials interviewed said that in view of the heavy bombing campaign against North Vietnam, accidental bombing of the dike1- could not be ruled out. this years holiday.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF amant about wishing not to run this year for vice president. Consequently, McGovern is said to have decided against giving the Democratic Nation' al convention a free hand in President has Washington ruled Wednesday that the Democratic Credentials Committee had been arbitrary and unconstitutional in taking 151 California delegates away from Sen. DA Urges Death in Special Cases KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -Former President llarry S. Truman will undergo a second set of rays in the examination of an intestinal problem which sent him to a hospital here Sunday, a hospital spokesman said Wednesday.

"Beeau.se of Mr. Trumans ailment the rays taken Monday were not satisfactory and they will be repeated later in the week when advisable," a Research Medical Center spokesman told reporters. He declined to elaborate. Truman was sitll listed in satisfactory condition. The spokesman said Truman, 88, had indicated soreness in his lower back Tuesday.

The former president said he felt better on Wednesday, the spokesman noted, but Dr. Wallace IL Graham, Trumans personal physician, ordered rays in that area as well. The back pain is in a large part due to the irritation of the colon, the spokesman quoted Graham as saying. choosing his running mate he gets the presidential Day and Date George McGovern, and it awarded the senator the full 271-vote delegation. The court also upneld the committees denial of convention seats to Mayor Richard J.

Daley of Chicago and 58 of his political associates. Story on page 2. INTERNATIONAL PARIS (NYT) Pompidou of France replaced Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas with Pierre Mess-mer, a tough, orthodox Gaull-ist. whose main job will be to prepare for national elections due within the next 10 months. Pompidou made it clear in a published letter that Chaban-Delmas had been dismissed.

Story on page 1. SAIGON (NYT) South Vietnamese troops continued to close in on the heart of Quang Tri City as their counter-offensive, in its second week, made slow, but steady gams. There were conflicting reports on how near the troops were to the citys center. SEOUL (NYT) South Korean prime minister Kim Jong Pil said there was little possibility of a summit meeting soon between leaders of North and South Korea despite the recent treaty between the two countries that sets a goal for peaceful reunification. NEW YORK (NYT) Mrs.

Aristotle Onassiss right to privacy had been "relentlessly in vaded by Ronald E. Galella a photographer, U.S. District Court Judge Irving Ben Cooper has ruled. Among other re strictions, Galella has been permanently enjoined from ap preaching Mrs. Onassis or her children to take pictures of them.

A $1.3 million suit brought by the photographer against Mrs. Onassis was ARLEN SPECTER Asks Legislatures Action June 24 is now considered Midsummer Day; but according to the Julian, or Old Style calendar, July 6 is Midsummer Day. And in Great Britain today is still a holiday. In Canada, today marks the opening of the Calgary Stampede an event which this year celebrates its 60th anniversary. And if you have a budding rodeo star in your household, why not make this a red letter day by shopping the Want Ads for a horse, and for riding gear? See: NEW YORK (NYT) The Nixon administration has granted a $150-million export license to the Boeing Co.

for the proposed sale of 10 Boeing 707 jet airliners to China. Ne-gotiatons have been under way in Peking since April, and now that the United States has given its approval, industry sources believe the deal will be closed by the end of the summer. would be passed by states per-mitting death in kidnap and hijack cases. Specter said death should be imposed and carried out swiftly for a killing: of a policeman. done for hire, a contracted murder.

perpetrated during a kidnap. by an assassin who lays in wait or stalks his victim. committed by a parolee previously convicted of first-degree murder. in prison by a convict serving a life sentence. committed during any arson, rape, robbery or burglary where the defendant previously was convicted of one of those crimes.

resulting from the hijack of an airplane, train, bus. ship, or other commercial vehicle. Specter said he was shocked when the nations high tribunal struck down capital punishment. There are 23 men under PHILADELPHIA (API-Acting less than a week after the Supreme Court ban of capital punishment, Philadelphia Dist. Atty.

Arlen Specter asked the Pennsylvania Legislature Wednesday to okay the death penalty in eight types of murder. Included would be killings committed during kidnapings ana hijacks. The Supreme Courts 5-4 decision Thursday was that the death penalty as presently imposed in states which still impose it is cruel and unusual punishment, illegal under the U.S. Constitution. But the court indicated that legislators could retain capital punishment in some cases, and Specter, a tough law and order advocate, moved to get that legal authority from the Demo-cratic-controlled legislature.

President Nixon, whose four appointees to the Supreme Court supported capital punishment, said he hoped laws ON TIIE INSIDE In Todays Spokesman-Review Comics 27 Radio-TV 2 Crossword 45 Records Editorials 4 Sports 22-25 Inland Em- Star Gazer 5 pire .7. 8, 10 Weather ....2 Markets .20,21 Women 33.34, Movies 5 35, 36, 42, 43 GOOD child's horse, bridle saddle. Make offer. WA 4-4391. sentence to die in Pennsylvania, and 19 of them were convicted in Philadelphia courts.

The last execution was in 1962, the 350th to die in the state. We havent imposed the death penalty in an arbitrary, discriminatory or freakish manner, Specter said. Specter, a Republican, is expected to oppose the re-election bid of Gov. Milton J. Shapp, a millionaire Democrat who approved dismantling of the states electric chair when he took office in January 1970 and pledged he would never allow any executions while he is in office.

REYKJAVIK (NYT) The scheduled world chess championship match remained in limbo, and nobody in Iceland, including the contestants, knew when the match would begin, or whether it would be held at all. Bobby Fischer, the American challenger, apologized to the Soviet champion for delaying the match. Story on page 24. Mrs. Lee Frandsen, S2308 Balfour, says, "We had great results with our ad in The Spokesman-Review.

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