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IA-DEL UK) (TEXAS) NEWS-HERALD Tuesday. June 3. 1969 Apartment House Blaze Kills 12 By PAUL BRINK KANSAS CITY, Mo. "re through a threo- story brick apartment building today, killing 12 including eight children. Ar tafcnt died in the arms of hi rather who leaped from a Mazing window.

About MJ residents of the apartment building, most of them in night clothing, were lee or went carded down ladders One entire family uf six wat, killed. Most of the dead lived on top flour and were killed before they dee by the flames which raced up a shaft inside the building, John Halloran, city fire director, said. "The fire apparently started in a dumbwaiter-type shaft on the first floor and mushroomet CountyGrandJury Returns Eight IndictmentsToday Eight indictments were returned by the Val Verde County grand jury in 63rd District Court in a report to Judge Roger Thurmond shortly after 11 a.m. today. The indictments included forgery, passing forged instruments, burglary and escape from jail, among others, District Clerk Emma Stewart said.

The investigating body was im- panelled by Judge Thurmond Monday morning. Mrs. Gail K. Parsons was foreman of the grand jury and members include Mario Jack R. Skiles, Rosalinda R.

Sotelo, Carlos Arranaga, Lyster Brumley, Abe Arredondo Robert H. Kelly, Robert T. Dobkins, Tomas C. Aguirre, Henry J.Y. Mills D3 and Robert Cauthorn.

Six Texas Men Killed in War WASHINGTON (UPIK The Department of Defense Monday released the names of six Texans who died recently In the Vietnam war. Army Pfc. John L. Rosemond, bus- of Mrs. Dorothy M.

Rosemond, las. 1131 Forester DaJ- Pfc. Calvin R. Patrick, son of Mrs. Kathleen E.

Ivey, 1003 Zoe Houston. Pfc. Matthew T. Lozano, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Matthew A. Lozano, 224 Carolina Sen Antonio. Spec. 5 Danny W. Hargis, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Clyde W. Hargis, 1003 E. Commerce Henrietta. Marines Cpl.

Gary D. Carter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Price B. Carter, Rt 9, Tyler.

Cpl. Albert J. Cartledge son of Mrs. Mary F. Dale, 5743 Parkdale Dallas.

Obituaries By United Press international NEWBURYPORT, Mass. City Councilor James E. Sullivan, 68, collapsed while addressing a council meeting Monday and died soon after he was taken to a hospital. LONGVTEvTcUPlb Millionaire industrialist Robert Gilmoure LeTourneau, 80, lay in state today at the LeTourneau College Chapel. He will be bur- ted Wednesday afternoon.

LeTourneau, who called himself "just a mechanic whom the Lord has blessed," will be burled after funeral services at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the LeTour- CoUege gymnasium. He up to the third floor," Halloran said. "The entire third floor is gutted," he said. "That's where moat of the victims were.

The and second floors had mostly smoke and water damage." Mrs. Mary Cohen, owner of the building occupied mostly by families of laborers ainl white- collar workers, said she was awakened "by a little noise tuid when I went to find out about it I ran into smoke and fire." The bodies of six children were found in the ruins of what had been the top floor of the three-story building. Lawrence Smith, who lived In the building, grabbed his 5- month-old son Harry In his arms and jumped from a window when flames engulfed his apartment. The infant died at Mercy Hospital. The father was seriously injured.

Smith's wife Barbara and another of their children wore killed. Eleven fire companies, handicapped at times by inadequate water pressure on the hilltop site, fought the flames for hours before they could enter the building to search for bodies. They found no survivors. Edmound Godden Sr. saved Us wife and two children by rushing them from the burning building.

The flames stopped turn from going back to rescue his other two children. Among the bodies, firemen found those of Edmound Godden 5, and Scarlett Godden. 3. Identification of the victims was difficult because of the condition of the bodies. A deputy coroner said the victims included Mr.

and Mrs. Rex Johnson, both 40, and their four two sons, 5 and 7, and two daughters, 2 and 3. One body was believed to be that of Mrs. Joyce Franks, who lived alone. Red Boycott Makes Pompidou Sure Bet By JOSEPH W.

GR1GG HAULS Georges Pompidou today was all but assured the presidency of Franco by the onuiuuiist party decision to boycott tho June 15 runoff election. It robbed Alain Poher vt his only liope for upsetting Two Teens Die Sniffing Gas SAN DIEGO, Calif. (UPI) Four teen-agers shut themselves up in a sports car Monday and inhaled laughing gas in an effort to get high. Two died and two survived after treatment at a hospital. Residents of the at fluent suburb of La Jolla telephoned police after they heard hysterical screams coming from the parked auto.

car, police found the bodies of Clare Herrick, 18, of La Jolla, and Peter Strata. 17, of Pacific Beach. Both were pronounced dead at the scene. The survivors were Nora Ruffcorn, 15, daughter of a La Jolla attorney, and Brad Hunter, 17. Miss Ruffcorn was in serious condition at a hospital.

Hunter, who was found outside the car eaning against it, was arrested by juvenile authorities. Nitrous oxide, commonly laughing gas, is widely used hospitals as an anesthetic. ohce said the teen-agers, all resent or former students at La Jolla High School, had a cy- uider of the gas that disappeared Sunday from a San Diego iospital. They opened an outlet ralve on the cylinder after clos- Jig the doors and windows of car. Mother ond Two Children Killed In Fiery Wreck PORT ARTHUR (UPI)- Mrs Dannie J.

Strotber, 40, died in stroke at his John Sealy Hospital in ton today, bringing the death toll from a fiery automobile DEL RIO NEWS-HERALD collision Monday to three. Published each afternoon exJ Strother's children, Rory, 5, and cept Saturday and also Sunday Michelle 4. They were morning by Del Rio News-Herakf trapped in the back seat of Inc. Second Class Postage paid at Dal Rio, Texas. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By command Jolnt United Stocks Dip; Some Groups Buck Trend NEW YORK CUPD-Stocks were under mild pressure today as activity approached the midway point.

Trading was moderate. Declines held an advantage more than 200 Issues over advances, but several groups bucked the downtrend, which was not so broad as in the previous session. Although the Commerce Department reported per cent rise in new factory orders In April from the month before, the balance of the news budgei was much less constructive. Automobile production in May dropped a whopping 22.1 per cent from April, and traders still were influenced by the continuing possibility of a prime rate boost and the lack of positive Vietnam peace news. Shortly before noon, the UPI stock market indicator, measuring all stocks traded, showed a loss of 0.22 per cent on 1,476 issues crossing the tape.

OJ these, 702 declined and 465 advanced. The Dow Jones average oi Jlue chip industrials was ofl 0.84 at 932.33 near noon. Volume approximated 6,000,000 shares. Reading and Bates, a drilling firm, fell about 2 after shooting up iTVg Monday. The firm recently announced agreement to acquire some oil concerns with Interests in Indonesia and Java.

Several major oil firms have been engaged in oil exploration in these areas. Natomas, a member of a iroup participating in oil exploration in Indonesia, picked up about 3. Superior gained 1 or but Standard of California, Midwest Oil and Amerada dipped around 1 each. t'oher needed the surprisingly strwig vote the rolled up Sunday if he were to have a chance to beat The Communists virtually killed that chance Monday. Despite that, aides to Pompidou said the former premier would conduct a hard-hitting campaign against Poher in tfaa week of official stumping that begins Friday.

Poher said he would make personal appearances around the nation, having refused two requests from the Pompidou camp that he withdraw. Final tabulations from Sunday's election, showing Pompjt- uou far ahead of Poher and five other leftist candidates, were barely in before French Communist leaders virtually decided the outcome of the runoff. The party told the five million persons who voted for Its candidate to abstain. It was UiJikely most would, and instead would split their votes between Poher and Pompidou. Police Find Girl Chained by Neck were scene.

mother's automobile burned to death at and the carrtar in Dal Rio $1.75. Bymailj Tte accident happened on ordering last week. Motors were steady to slightly higher despite unfavor- aMe production figures. Rails gained fractions. TWA picked up around 1 in the Drmer airlines.

The aerospace group followed a mixed path. Burroughs and National Cash T. liahar Emeritus BMB Editor tea Je Flaatwood Asso. Editor CarMa Solato BUS. Mgr.

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Mgr. Any erroneous reflection upon tha character, standing or rep- aay parson, firm or giadly bt corrected whan such occurs Intha sides of 0 fractions and on whirled into the west- previous closings. bound lane and, was hit in the Polaroid added more than FORT WORTH (UPO Police broke through two locked doors In a mobile home Monday and found a 12-year-old girl chained by the neck to a wall in a back room. They failed to find her father, a 32-year-old physical education teacher, at home. The father was reported to have gone to a hardware store for another lock to add to the chain.

As police were freeing the daughter, the father returned and was arrested on a charge aggravated assault. The girl was given emergency attention and made a ward of the police department's juvenile division. "My father did it," the girl told police as they cut her loose with a hacksaw. Her neck was slightly bruised. Policeman R.

E. McDonald, who freed the girl, said the Fugitive Frees Hostage And Surrenders Quietly chain was held in place by a combination lock. The other end of the chain was fastened to a hook in the wall "with no slack in the chain to permit any McDonald said. The girl and her father lived alone. One of the girl's playmates told police she was chained up.

The girl told police her father did not want her outside while he was away and had chained her before. She said she had slipped away several times while she was not chained and gone to the friend's home. The girl also said her father had beaten her several times. Cununuriist presidential candidate Jacques Duclott had woo a surprising 21 per cent of tiw primary 5 million ajtd with it the power to direct leftists how to vuta in tha runoff. Other leftist candidates got 12 per cent.

Pohor, the Centrist candidate, and France's acting president in the wake of Charles da Gaulle's resignation, had won 23.3 per cent Sunday. Pompidou, who ran as the self-styled Gaullist heir to De Gaulle, drew 44.4 per cent. Fifty per cent of vote was required for outright victory. Barring massive defections In i primary support, Pompidou would need only moderate leftist backing to win June Poher would have needed nearly all of it. Crash Kills Two GOLDTHWAITE, Tex.

CUPX) Two persons were killed Monday in a one-car accident inside city limits. The dead -re Identified as Irene Greathouse. 60, of Goldthwalte, and A. E. Franks of Lometta.

Cardona Heads UT Department AUSTIN (UPD- Dr. Rodolfo Cardona, an ex-diplomat, sculptor and scholar of Spanish lifr. erature, will become chairman of the department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas in September, flcials announced Monday. LUMBERTON, N.C. CUPD- Fugitive Ricardo Resendez, who allegedly killed a guard a prison break Monday leased his last hostage un.

harmed today and walked quietly from a brick farmhouse where he had been holed up. Authorities said Resendez surrendered after talking on the telephone with James Lee, a fellow convict who took part in Monday's escape. Lee had surrendered earlier today. Resendez released his last hostage, Isley WUcox, unharmed. wife and son and a prison guard were released earlier.

After Resendez talked to Lee. prisons department officer entered the house and stayed about 20 minutes, then brought out the fugitive. Resendez, 26, of Los Angeles. and Lee, 21, of Fayetteville' M.C, had been holed up in the farmhouse with a pistol and rifle since Monday. RITA SHOWS THRU, TUESDAY GENERAL AUDIENCE SHOHS AT 2:00 g.

8:00 'GONE WITH THE WIND" Authorities had been continu- the fugitives by nicating with telephone. Resendez, serving 70-120 years for murder and kidnap- ing, and Lee broke outoT the Robeson (Lumberton) County Prison camp Monday. Prison camp Supt. Joseph Brooks said Resendez "somehow got hold of a small caliber pistol-and shot to death guard Earl Strickland, 33, of Fairmont. N.C.

in a "scuffle. 4 Lee joined Resendez, according to prison officials, and the men took another guard, Sgt. Ebert Locklear. as hostage. with the pistol, atrickland's revolver and a .30.30 rifle in a car belonging to another guard.

Locklear later was found, bound and gagged, in the car. He was un- abandoned harmed. The fugitives entered the farmhouse, about six miles south of Lumberton. DIAMOND HEADQUARTERS SINCE 1912 -SERVING. SAN ANTONIO-LAREDO-DEL RIO- VICTORIA-CORPUS CHRISTI 631 S.

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