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HEW Bates Pierre Hotel Loss Tops $1 Million, Errors in Clues for Police Add Up to Nothing U.S. Welfare i The Salt Lake Tribune, Tuesday, January 4, 1972 A iLp Cashier Adolph Ross was cuffed across the back of the neck when be refused to provide the bandits with a list of box holders and their tooned with Christmas decorations. Police said the quartet trussed or handcuffed 16 hotel employes and three guests who happened to be about at that early hour. I i -V' 4 ffm i fs it Yd JkairtL 0 nY 4 tY- X. II.

liny- a. 'f S- 51 4 i ft tY 'CM- Gerard Smith, left, U.S. representative to the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks meet at the Associated Press Wirephoto White House with Secretary of State William P. Rogers, President Nixon and Ilenry Kissinger. Demos Request Equal Network Spot To Nixons Prime Time Programs Truth ha? no special time of its own.

Its hour is now always. Albert Schweitzer NEW YORK (AP)-Police said they were totally without leads Monday in the New Years weekend robbery of the fashionable Hotel Pierre. The loot apparently totaled well above the original estimate of $1 million. A vault alarm that would have sounded as soon as the bandits entered the room was turned off in violation of the hotel's security precautions, police said, adding that the vault door should not have been open. A quartet of bandits took the loot from the lobby vault of the 43-story hotel, overlooking Cential Park and 5th Avenue, after arriving in a limousine.

The biggest loser so far appeared to be a socialite tenant of the Pierre, Gabrielle Lag-erwall. At first it was reported her loss totaled $1 million but later the figure was set at $500,000 in jewelry, only partly insured. Voices Surprise She was quoted as expressing suiprise to hotel security officials that nobody put up a struggle during the holdup. What is worth more than your life? she wras asked. Some things are.

Miss Lagerwall was said to have replied. Another single loss estimate was sa 1 to total $300,000, and belated reports of other guests seemed certain to swell the total. The hotels director of security, John Keeney, said one of those reporting a substantial loss in uninsured jewels was a Greek guest, whom he did not Identify. All I kept thinking was, Oh, my God, that's a lot of drachmas, Keeney added. Describe Jewels In an attempt to assay the extent of the robbery, detectives took, descriptions of missing jewels to such famous Fifth Avenue shops as Harry Winstons, Tiffany's and Van Cleef and Arpels.

Some of the stolen pieces were described as important so much so that fencing them to the underworld might prove ticklish, investigators said. The four well-dressed bandits, white and apparently all in their 30s, arrived about 4 a.m. Sunday at the Pierre's 61st Street entrance, one of their number posing as chauffeur of their limousine. Two of the four carried bags, later determined to contain handcuffs. They convinced a security guard they were arriving guests with reservations.

When he unlocked the entrance, the pair were followed by their two companions into a lobby still fes America at a Glance Snow, Wind, Cold Slam Central Plains Region telegrams from the committees general counsel, Joseph A. Califano, to Charles T. Ireland president of CBS, and Julian Goodman, president of NBC. Califano said the Sunday night program was highly 'political in its overtones and offered the President an opportunity to express his views a number of controversial issues of public importance. A demand for equal time came also from Rep.

Paul N. Affirms Rule mous Briefings 'X ('V I I I I rj i 1 if-. McCloskey, a young Republican antiwar congressman from California who is challenging Nixon in the Marcn 7 New Hampshire primary. In a letter to Dr. Frank Stanton, vice chairman of the board of CBS, McCloskey said that Nixon's discussion of the Vietnam war in the Sunday night interview clearly would give him an unfair advantage in the New Hamp sliir- primary unles equal prime time is gi anted to those who oppose him in this primary.

No Answer Yet There wa no immediate response from either network. The Democratic National Committee said it would cooperate with the networks in arranging spokesmen. Nixor. was interviewed Sunday night by CBS White House correspondent Dan Rather in a one-hour program called A Conversation with President Nixon. The President repeatedly sought to measure the success of his administration by placing the blame for the war in Indochina and the deterioration of the national economy on his Democratic predecessors, Califano said.

Considerations of fairness, let alone the Fairness Doctrine, require that the Democratic Party has an opportunity to respond to those attacks on its performance on those two critical issues. Previews Requests The telegram to Goodman said th" NBC program of Dec. 21 was "clearly political in its conception and execution. The Amencan Broadcasting Go. broadcast an interview of Nixon by Howaid K.

Smith laM March 22. The Democrats asked time to answer and weie turned down by ABC and the Federal Communica-tiors Commission. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals here has heard arguments on the Democrats appeal from the FCC ruling and a decision is expected shortly storm to near blizzard intensity on the high plains and the I atioxal Weather Service called it an extremely dangerous winter storm. Many Kansas schools delayed their reopening after the Christmas and New-Year's holidays and some Nebraska schools called off classes at midday.

A Kansas state trooper said snow was blowing so badly it was impossible to tell whether it was snowing heavily. High for Match WASHINGTON (AP) The government said Monuay that about five percent of all welfare families reviewed last April were ineligible for payments. largelv through errors by state and local agencies. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare said benefits should not have been paid to 4.9 percent of aged, blind and disabled recipients and 5 6 percent of those receiving Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Tlte review covered welfare recipients in 34 states.

Figures Projected Officials said nationw ice projection of the survey figures, which cover only about half the welfare case load, indicate a net of about $500 million a year is being misspent. They said an estimated $326 million is being paid to inelig-ibles hile overpayments may total $248 million, partially offset by underpayments of $76 million. The report, released at a news confetence, emphasized that fewer than one percent of all recipients had been prosecuted for fraud. Most of the errors were identified as honest mistakes b'- state and local welfare agencies or by those who received the payments, an HEW official said. More than half were agency errors.

Persons Listed The principal reasons for ineligibility, the government said, were failure by recipients to report changes in family size or income, and agency errors such as inadequate determination of eligibility, failure to follow up and misinterpretation of policy. The preliminary survey also showed overpayments and underpayments in 24.3 percent of AFDC cases and 17.8 percent of adult welfare cases. The AFDC overpayments per family averaged $44.92 and erpayments $18.32 a month; adult overpayments averaged $22.43 and underpayments $14.23. The survey, undertaken as part of a new HEW quality control program, has limited application in national projections because 16 states including California are not represented and others such as New York. Ohio and Pennsylvania reported on only a small sampling.

No Attempt Officials said there was no attempt to make a state-by -state breakdown of the figures. Richard P. Nathan, HEW deputy undersecretary for welfare reform planning, said however that the preliminary figures point to the need for an overhaul of the present welfare system. The results of this survey make it all the more urgent that Congress enact the administration's welfare reform legislation, he said. White House Hunts for News Leak New Yoik Times Service WASHINGTON President Nixon was furious" with his subordinates during the recent India-Pakistan war for not taking a stronger stand against India, the syndicated columnist Jack Anderson reported Monday.

Amleison quoied Hemy A Kissingei, the Piesident's adviser on national security, as having told a meeting of senior administiation officials: I'm gelling hell every half-hour from ihe Pi esnle.it that we are not being tough enough on India. The public anon of the le-poits which Anderson says aie classified secret sensitive," has infuriated the White House and unsettled nation security officials. Government ouues confirmed Mondav that an investigation had been stalled to determine who leaked the classified documents, by the White House. The sources said the new investigation, repoitedlv being conducted bv the Fedeial Bureau of Investigation, is directed at indnidin'Is in the State and Defense depait ments and on the National Se-c ui lty Council 'I. ff who have had ac e.

to the nolo- quoted by Andeison The ijuolaiiois publi'-hed bv the columnis! aiP not official mi es i Hie pi lines, but laibet noes piepced by lep le-oMames ot ihe vaiums up mi ents 1 1 dll l( OpV i ll'l ers must abide by the rules under which the information was obtained. Henry Kissinger, White House national security adviser, talked with reporters in the presidential jet returning from Azores and President Nixons mid-December meeting with Frencn President Georges Pompidou. The session with Kissinger was a so-called deep backgrounder in which newsmen can rejiort what they are told but are not permitted to identify the source either by name or even as a White House official In accordance with established procedure, reporters on the presidential jei gave a detailed report of the Kissinger briefing to the rest of the White House press corps. The pool report included the notation that stones should be written on our own wiih-out attribution to any administration official." But The Post, inch did not have a reporter on the presidential jet. identified the source as Kissinger.

Benjamin Bradlee, Post executive editor, said the newspaper did not feel bound by the rules for such briefings because it obtained identity of the briefer independently. Charles Wilson Dies at 85, Ex-Aide to FDR, Truman WASHINGTON (AP) The Democratic National Committee asked the Columbia Broadcasting System Monday for prime air time to respond to the networks telecast interview with President Nixon Sunday The Democrats also asked the National Broadcasting Co. for aii time to answer that network's Dec. 21 airing of a program entitled, A Day in the Presidency. The requests were made in Press Corps On Anony WASHINGTON (AP) In an implied rebuke to The Washington Post, the White House Correspondents Assn, called upon its members Monday to abide by the rules of anonymous briefings.

The statement of principles was put out by the executive committee, speaking for the association. Without mentioning the Post, the statement said, There is absolutely no question but that any news organization which accepts information on a bacKground basis, either directly or from a repot trom a group of report- Crime War Toll: 125 Officers Slain in 1971 WASHINGTON (AP) One hundred bv entv-five local, county and state police officers were slain in 1971, a 25 percent increase ovr the previous year, the FBI reported Monday. Of those murdered in 1971, 120 died from gunshot wounds, the FBI said. Pistols were used to kill 93 officers. The FBI said 48 policemen were killed in the South, 28 in the North Central states, 26 in the Northeast anu 23 in the West.

Still Viet Issue criteria for ending U.S. involvement. Warren was asked at a biiefing whether the interview statement means Nixon wa.s dropping the second criterion. No. it does not Warren responded.

hf Salt akf sTribunf 1x3 ScJlh A'a Diai 524 78j0 E'tab April 15 1871, issued very rrcrr rq by the kearna-Tribune Corporator, Sait Lake City, Uih 04110 Entered ot the rest ctfic at Salt Lake City as second class matter under Act of March I A'i inso icited aMc'es, msnuscrip4, i leMrrs and pictores sent to The Sj Lake Tribune are snt at me owners g.ares Tr burp Coroo'aton a sjmes no rcoonjibit. ty for their custcdy cr return SUBSCRIPTION rates United Prpss International An intense winter storm pushed across the Central Plains Monday, piling up three-foot drifts and cutting visibihy to near zero in western Kansas. Cold wave and travel warnings were up across a vast area of the West from the southern and central Rockies to the Mississippi Valley. Gusty winds and blowing, drifting snow pushed the Belgrade Bids NEW YORK (AP) The U.S. Chess Federation disclosed Monday that bids opened in Amsterdam for the site of the Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer w'orld championship chess match next June showed Belgrade the highest bidder.

The $152,000 Yugoslavian- citys offer of prize money pet cent increase in production. In 1950. President Harry Truman named Wilson chairman of the Office of Defense Mobilization and gave him final authority over production, wages, prices, transportation and defense buying for the emergency created by the Korean conflict. As he stepped into the post, he announced that nobody I said nobody would be allowed to profiteer from emergency defense production and escape prosecution. Fifteen months later, he resigned in a disagreement with Truman over a steel woikers wage increase that the President suppoited.

Wilson told Tinman that his of jusdre had been violated by the government's stand in the steel case. Until his death. Wilson maintained an office in Manhattan am' was active in civic and philanthropic causes. In addition to his widow, Wilson is survived by a daughter. Mrs.

Hugh Pierce. Funeial sen ices are scheduled Thursday ai the First Baptist Chuich White Plans Nixon Gears For Meet With Sato Combined Wire Servicer WASHINGTON President Nixon flew Monday to the Western White House and a Thursday meeting with Japans Prime Minister Eisa-ku Sato but first held a series of conferences with key advisers. The President met for an hour Monday afternoon with Secretary of State William P. Rogers, George P. Shultz, director of the Office of Management and Budget, Clark MacGregor, counsel for congressional relations and Dr.

Henry A. Kissinger, his assistant for national security affairs. No Details The White House did not disclose the purpose of the meeting. Among those present was William D. Eberle, a special representative for trade negotiations.

The meeting was one of several staff meetings held the day. In the morning the President and Shultz orked on the fiscal 1973 budget that the President will present to Congress when it comes back into session Jan. 18. The President also conferred for 30 minutes with Gerard Smith, chief of the U.S. delegation at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks with Russia.

Smitfl left Washington later Monday for Vienna for the reopening Tuesday of the bilateral discussions to curtail the deployment of nuclear offensive and defensive weapons. Another Refusal Unite House spokesman Gerald Warren declined to give any details of the talks. Just before leaving the White House by helicopter to board his jet plane at An-chews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland, Nixon conferred for about an hour with Atty. Gen. John N.

Mitchell. Details of this session were not disclosed. Nixon plans to spend five days or a week at San Clemente. Sdf-Go eminent WASHINGTON (AP; The Winle House said Monday President Nixon has not softened his insistence that the Souili Vietnamese have the right of self-determination as part of any Indochina settlement. The statement b) deputy press secretary Gerald L.

Warren came after Ni.ar, had spumed in a televised inier-viow Sunday night to nariow the criteria for ending S. operations in Southeast Asia. In tlie queslion-and- answer session wi'h CBS correspondent Dan Rather, Nixon was a--ked: May one properly assume that by election (hv there will be no Americans, land, sea or air, no re-siciu 1 force figuring Mip-loU of Laotnn, Cambodians or Souh Vietnamese" Nixon tbit depends on one ciinilii- till i eg nd iOii-y men is the siiuaiion with in our POWs" Piets via lo pUMu IIP l.od coupled tie Pi )W o-p wuh the up ibih'y of in South Vietn irnMp i'c lei then os ihe two BRONXVILLE, N.Y. (AP) Charles Edward Wilson, who rose from the poverty of New York Citys Hell's Kitchen to the presidency of the General Electric Co. and to Key government posts during World War II and the Korean War, died Monday at Lawrence Hospital.

He as 85. Starting as a $3-a-week errand boy with a formal education that ended at the eighth grade, Wilson became GEs chief executive officer in 1940. He regarded as a production genius. President Franklin D. Roosevelt named him executive vice president of the War Production Board a few months after the United States en-teiert World War II.

and he was credited with stepping up aircraft production. Roosevelt praised Wilson's expei knowledge of mass production methods and said it was reflected in our successes on many battle fionts. In 1944, llson left the government position after a senes of disputes with other WPB officials. He went back to GE and brought about a 285 for the match was reported by E. B.

Edmondson, of the U.S. federation. Fischer has said he would prefer a match in the United States or Canada but the site was expected to go to the highest bidder. Fischer, who won the right to challenge Russias Spassky, the world champion, when he defeated Tigran Petrosian, also of the Soviet Union, in Buenos Aires last fall, said he could not express any opinion on the bids until lie had studied them further. I like to play in the States, he said, but it's a question of money.

The Chicago convention bureau offered $100,000 the minimum cet for the bidding as dkl Bled, Yugoslavia. Other bids reported by Ed-inonuson, who said they were unprec edented, included $120,000 by Sarajevo. Yugoslavia; $125,000 by Iceland; and $150,000 by Argentina. Toll Hits 449 By Associated Pi ess The death toil in traffic accidents totaled 419 during the New Year's holiday weekend. The National Safety Council had estimated a week ago that between 4u0 ami 500 persons might be killed in traffic accidents during the period which began at 6 Thursday ended at midnight Sunday Over the Chiistmas holiday weekend an identical 78-hour period the traffic death toll was 61-i Blacks Gain Decree More Legislators ONTG OMERY ALA (UP1) A panp! of three federal judges Monday oidered a reappoi tionment plan for the Alabama Legislature that is expected to sharply met ease the number of black legislates.

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