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Two Arrested in Extortion Plot Similar to Recent TV Drama NOT A WEATHERVANE No, this is not a Cape Cod weachervane, but it is an honesc-to-goodness Cape Cod seagull carrying an arrow through its body. Despite the arrow, thought to have been fired by a youngster, the bird can fly, and was snapped by a photographer as it momentarily perched on top of a motel roof at Hyannis, Mass. (UPI) BOSTON (UPI-A stranger than fiction plot to extort $250,000 by threatening to blow up lines of the Boston Milne Railroad lay exposed today following the arrest of two men. FBI agents climaxed an intensive investigation of the bizarre dynamite plot Tuesday with the arrest of Donald Albert Dupray, 26, and Caleb John Babbitt, 25, at their homes in the Central Massachusetts town of Athol. James L.

Handley, special agent in charge of the FBI's Boston office, said agents found 75 sticks of dynamite in the trunk of Dupray's car. He said both men had signed statements admittlne their rnlns In ttiH nlnt. The extortion scheme was even more ambitious than a similar plot aired Dec. 12 on the network television series, "The F.B.I." In an episode subtitled "how to murder an iron horse," a 19- year-old boy threatens to ex- Diode a bomb under a railroad iridge unless officials give him $100,000. In the television show, FBI agents set a trap and catch the een-ager as he tries to dynamite the railroad.

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The cases were continued to Friday for a probable cause hearing. Farrell said a juvenile Involved in the case had given testimony to the FBI but was not arrested. The FBI was called into the investigation little more than one week after the television drama was screened. Authorities said, however, the two men apparently began planning the scheme in November and did not obtain the idea from the television show. The first threatening letter, addressed to the president of the Boston Maine Railroad and marked "personal," read: "We want $250,000 In unmarked, negotiable bills, five years or older, In fives, tens and twenties, or we will slew up or stop transportation on See new facets of flattery in knits for spring.

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A second letter, mailed Dec. 25, specified that "one man and one only" was to drop off the money at a public telephone booth near the Athol town line. A third letter was mailed Jan. 4 and the fourth letter, mailed Jan. 11 switched the drop site to a drive-in vegetable stand in Athol.

The letters were accompanied by anonymous telephone calls, authorities said. At no time was any money paid, the FBI said. The FBI said the dynamite found in Dupray's car was stolen Ic. 1 from the Athol Water Department. When investigators learned that the two men actually possessed dynamite, a large number of FBI agents were brought into the case.

Authorities said as many as 46 FBI agents were in Athol at one point. Babbitt, a service station nanager, and Dupray, a machine operator, are both married and the father of four, Bennington Banner, Wednesday. January 26, 1966-3 NoRevolutionaryChanges Required To Wage War on Poverty: Shriver Editor's note: Sargent Shriver is talcing off one hat, as Peace Corps director, to devote full time to the war on poverty. He tells how he views that campaign in the following exclusive interview. By WILLIAM J.

EATON WASHINGTON (UPI) --Sargent Shriver believes the nation can wage war against poverty without revolutionary changes that would penalize the rich or undermine City Hall. "This organization was not established to promote social change," the director of the Office of Economic Opportunity said. "I don't subscribe to the view that you can't get people out of poverty without changing the social structure. That's a ludicrous, archaic idea This Is not France in 1789 when the poor went to the barricades." Shriver also reaffirmed his controversial policy that the nation and its problems are too diverse to lay down any rigid rule concerning participation by the poor in local antipoverty campaigns. The OEO, he told UPT in an Interview, will continue to decide the appropriate ratio on a case-by-case basts In approving funds for new community action programs.

Shriver denied he was trying to downgrade the rp'e of the poor to reduce opposition to antlpOYerty projects from mayors of big cities. Some mayors feel such participation will give leaders ot anlipoverty projects a rallying point for rival political factions. "That Is 100 per cent he said. "There has been no commitment made to anyone about participation of the poor 1 make every day a Gift Day I Gifts of lovely, flattering gemstones are appreciated even more when they're unexpected, given just for the fun of giving. Registered 411 Main St NOVCCk Jeweler Dial 2-6926 Boston Plans 10-Day Carnival of Culture By WILLIAM J.

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