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Proof Of Nixon Innocence Promised KEY SCAYNE, Fta. (UPI) President Nixon vtll turn over "hard" evidence to the House Judiciary Committee which will prove his Innocence in the Watergate cover-up, a high ranking White House official said Tuesday. But the official, who declined to be identified, strongly indicated that Nixon will not fully comply with the subpoena for more than 40 taped conversations sought by the impeachment panel. He also said that even if the House, brings impeachment charges against Nixon, the President intends to travel to a summit meeting in Moscow the last week iii June. He confidently predicted Nixon will not resign or be removed from office by impeachment.

"We're going to turn over absolutely what we think to be the hard evidence of all the totality of the President's knowledge and actions," he' said. "There will be verbo transcripts of materials directly from the tapes in extensive quantity." Nixon intends to respond to the subpoena early next week when Congress winds up its Easter recess. The committee set a deadline of April 25 for the reply. The official described the present period as a "Key juncture" and said the upcoming Judiciary Committee deliberations arc "gravely important." He expressed the hope that all "parties involved, as well as the Judiciary Committee staff, and the White House staff too, never permit these issues to be determined on emotional tests of manhood, but rather to focus on the facts, hard evidence." "After all," he added, "that is what this exercise is all about to permit a hard-nosed as sessment and not to he influenced Dy emotional tests of virility or petty tactical maneuvering. That would be doing the country a disservice." Te only real question, he snld.

is thai of the President's involvement. "We are in the process ot compiling and we will 'provide comprehensive and conclusive documentation of his Innocence to the degree that the tapes ever provide it," lie said, adding: "I'm confident the tapes will provide It. I am personally confident if these materials to be turned over are objectively assessed, these matters can be disposed of quickly." James D. St. Clair, the President's chief Wa-: tcrgate counsel, is in the process of making a legal assessment of the tapes to be released, and "he's very confident the hard evidentiary material" will clear Nixon, the official said.

More On Pages, Col. 1 IKMIA 1 1 tUlTlON VOLUME XXXI, NO 77 32 PACKS PRICE 15 CENTS K1NGSPOUT. TENNESSEE. 37tj62, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1974 7t's So Bizarre Egypt Threat: Second Front Against Israel LA PAZ, Mexico (UPI) The mother of Patricia Hearst said Tuesday she cannot believe her daughter took part in the $10,000 holdup Df a San Francisco bank. "I'm so upsel Ican't talk to you," Mrs.

Randolph Hearst said. "We Just heard it over the radio. It's so' bizarre. I can't believe it. Please leave us alone The FBI said Miss Hearst was being sought as a material witness in connection with Monday's holdup of a branch of the Hibernia Bank Two bystanders were shot during the robbery.

Earlier, Miss Hearst's mother, Catherine, said she and herhusband "were still as convinced as ever that our daughter has not been converted to the revolutionary philosophy that those terrorists represent." She added, however, "We don't know alkali about the techniques involved inb'r'ainwashing, That's something highly: professional in the field of psychiatry, I believe." Mrs. Hearst was in Las Cruces with her husband, president and editor of the San Francisco Examiner: two other daughters, a son-in-law and a grandson. The Hearsts were expected to return soon to their home in Hdlsborough, Calif Authorities said they identified the 20-year-old Miss Hearst from photographs taken of four rifle-lbting women by A hidden camera inside Ihe hank. Miss Hearst, kidnaped 10 weeks ago, said in a tape-recorded message she was joining her captors and changing her name to "Tania," By United Press International An Kgyptian newspaper hinted Tuus-' day that Egypt might open a second front in the Sinai Desert if the Israel-Syrian fighting continues. The fighting in the Golan Heights entered its Sfith consecutive day Tuesday with intensive Syrian artillery bombardments of Israeli posi-tions alop strategic Mount Hcrmon.

The newspaper Al Akhbar said Egypt cannot allow Israel to return to the aggressive methods it practiced before last October's war. "The lime when Israel was able to practice this' 'method has passed," it said. "Israel cannot remain with one Arah front to concentrate on." Al Akhbar also warned thai "continuing Israeli agyressive policies" constituted a hurdle in the path of current efforts for a lasting peace in the Middle East Similar fears were expressed Monday in New York at a meeting of the U.N. Security Council. A Syrian military delegation, headed by Brig.

(Jen. fiikmal Chehabi, heart of military Intelligence, currently is in the United States for talks wit!) Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger on a possible Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement. The Tel Aviv newspaper Ma'ariv said Israeli political leaders have not yet dis-cussed a Syrian proposal for the disengagement of forces. Even so, Ma'ariv said, Israeli officials would reject the Syrian proposal because it "opposes upon.

which the 'lsraeli-tdisen'gagemeTiO suggestions were-based thai in the first stage there would be no Israeli 'withdrawal, beyond the enclave" it captured In the October war. More On Page 8, Col. I THREE MORE VICTIMS IN DETROIT 'EXECUTIONS' DETROIT U1'1) Police checking reports' of -gunfire in a West Side apartment complex early Tuesday found the bodies of three women, each with hands tied and each shot once in the back of the head. It was the latest in a series of multiple homicides in Detroit and raised the loll since early Easter to 19. Police did not identify the latest victims! but said they were all in their 20s.

A fourth intended victim, identified only as a lft, year-old male, escaped death by jumping from a second story window with his hands ttedj-He suffered -minor injuries. Police said the three women were slain in execution style, their bodies sprawled in a bedroom of the second floor apartment, Authorities said the three women were slain in execution style, their bodies sprawled in a bedroom of the second floor apartment. Authorities said they arc; seeking three men in connection with the shootings, Two men and a woman died Monday in what police called a double homicide and suicide, apparently motivated by jealousy, while two men were slain during he Easter week end i what ol I called ug rela ert executions. In suburban Dearborn, three other persons. were shot dead in.

another multiple homicide blamed on feuds over, narcutics traffic. Those deaths are not Included In.th'e.Detroit huauuiif tn'i'i, which now ex- ceeds 200. Police said the latest homicides pushed the total so nr. this year to 22H. District Attorney James Browning holds photo in whkh Patricia at center in photo) holds gun while another person (upper right in photo) apparently holds a gun on her.

FBI Seeking Patty Fop Robbery Role Squabble Over Church Sale Ends Up In Court DHn Trie. HI today still sought Patricia Hearst as one of four rifletoting women who held up a San Francisco bank Monday, shot two bystanders and escaped with more than (10,000. Authorities said the 20-year-old kidnap victim may have been forced to participate against her will. "She may have been acting under duress and coercion," said FBI Special Agent in 'charge, Charles W. Bates, in explaining why she was sought as a material witness instead Df a participant.

Three other women were named as suspects, and police said five men apparently also were Involved four of them waiting outside in two getaway cars. Bates said if it determined that Miss Hearst was a wilting participantshe also would be charged with bank robbery. The robbery took place shortly after the fl a.m. opening of a Hibernia Bank branch in San Francisco's oceanside Sunset District The four women all young and white, wearing dark coats and "waffle-stomper" type boots and carrying semiautomatic rifles and a man entered the bank with military-like precision, scooped $10,690 from cash drawers after ordering patrons and em'plnyes to lie on the floor, then fled through the front door, firing at V-! men were seriously wounded, but both were reported in satisfactory condition at a hospital. They were Peter Marknff, 59, who operates a nearby liquur store, and Eugene Brennan, 70.

who lives near the scene. A hidden camera in the bank took several dramatic photographs of the gun-wielding robbersincluding one showing the woman. identified as Patricia carrying a gun but with another of the robhers appearing to be holding a gun on her. It was because of this picture, plus apparent efforts by the robbers to go out of their way to identify her as "Tania," that authorities speculated she was forced to take part. "There's reason to believe she was not a willing partner in the kidnaping or the batik robbery." said U.K.

Attorney James Browning. The three women named in bank roh-hery warrants were Nancy Ling EJerry, Patricia Michelle Snllysik and Camilla Catherine Hall, all believed previously to be members uf the liny SLA which claimed responsibility for the Hearst kidnaping and the slaying last Novenihii- of Oakland Schools Suprintendent Marcus Foster. More On Page Col. 1 the church in the niid 1940's and a new congregation of outsiders had seized control of it, changing its name from Stallard Memorial Free Will Baptist Church to Independent Free Will Baptist Church. "High! now, just one family out of 33 on the mountain goes to church there," he.

said, adding, in response to a statement that the church doors were open, lhat that was not true. "I feel iikc all the people that live there that was thrown out of the church ought to have this church back." saitl Trent, Of the present congregation, ho added, "They didn't concern me. They didn't build it. Why don't Rifle-toting Patty inside bank. ewnei eiser hen Kennedy called him about the ad threatened tD "come over and work lie said the preacl you over." By GLENN TA1YKERSLEY Big Stone Gap Bureau WISE Fearful that their church would be disrupted by a neighborhood man's effort to sell it, Itev.

Roy Kennedy and most of his congregation of about 45 went to circuit court Monday requesting a permanent injunction against sale of the property by Rupert Trent. Circuit Judge M. M. Long granted a temporary injunction and, because of the lateness of Ihe hour (about 5 p.m.) and a courtroom full of witnesses, set April 30 at I p.m. for a full hearing of Iho case.

From testimony by Kennedy and Trent, the conflict began over a land dispute. Kennedy claimed lights to the church on the basis it has the courl-uppoiiUed trustees uf the church and to the fact that Trent has not attended regularly for almost two decades. Trent claimed the church, located in Ihe middle of his family's cemetery, was part of an 8.8 acre trad of land he owns. Hugh Cline, an attorney for the church's congregation, pointed out that even the boundaries of Trent's land are a matter for dispute and a chancery suit has been filed to determine them. The dispute, over a small church at Tip-Top on Bull Mountain near St.

Paul, came to court after Trent had an ad placed in the St. Paul weekly paper asking sale of the church property. Trent claimed that his parents, A. J. and Nellie Trent, who deeded the church land to the original rustees, didn't own the land in the first place.

He added thai, even if they had, the original trustees, two cf whom are still living, had never resigned their office. He said the people on Bui! Hfnuntain had buiit School Bonds Turned Down "That didn't sound much like a preacher to me," he said, adding th.nl he told Kennedy when the church was liulll, "ynu wore oul running up and down the road. You didn't care whether it was a church or a chicken coop." The feud has evidently gone on for years. Kennedy also complained of a letter Trent and others signed and sent to the church's Wise County iuarterly Conference some time ago claiming that "dirty work had gone on in the He added that about five years ago Trent and others buill a fence around the church and congregation members tore il down. Trent said he only built it to protect the cemetery afler a tomb-'slone was torn down and a former church member spent over S20 to repair it.

Explaining why ho wanted lo sell it, Trent said, "It wasn't doing (he people that hullt (t any School Superintendent Ralph Anderson for school board consideration. A cheering delegation from Church Hill heard the Rev. Wayne Provence tell magistrates of meetings held and plans made in an effort to repair ailing Church Hill High School. "We took our recommendations to the school board," Provence said, "and they ROGERSVILLF. After turning down 'an attempt to consider as one resolution three prnposalsfor school renovation bond sales, the Hawkins County Quarterly Court Monday tabled each sale individually.

The bond proposals, which even wilhout interest would have raised the county's bond indebtedness to nearly million, were doomed to defeat even before County Judge J. B. Howe admonished magistrates to avoid selling small amounts of bonds without prior planning, "There isn't any magistrate in this court who is against education," Howe said, "but we need to think these things out before getting into them." The three bond proposals, if passed, would have made $400,000. available to -Church Hill High School, Bulls Gap Elementary and High Schools, and Rogersville High School for renovations. Another proposal, not presented to the 1 court, called for a $125,000 bond sale for renovations to Mt, Carmel Elementary School.

Magistrate Julian Click gave it to meeting would he forced to spend S47.000 of their reserve fund for extra interest payments 011 previous small bonds, weren't swayed. The proposals were all tabled for consideration on financing. According to Howe, Hawkins County has in six years passed '28 bond resolutions Tor schools, roads, and bridges. Most of the resolutions contained more than one bond issue, and most were also small $40,000 to $155,000. "The court has," said Howe, "passed at least one bond resolution for each meeting in the last six years." Howe said Investors are Benerally wary of small bonds, since the profit percentage is small anyway.

They wail for large issues, he said. The bonds should also be sold when the market is good, not whenever the court meets, he added. On the SIB.a million in'bonds the county now has outstanding, interest rates range from 4.2 per cent (about the best that can be expected for a large issue on a good market) to 4.9 per cent. Howe said even a More On PageS, Col. 1 MORE ON HAWKINS COURT-PAGE 9 One Man Dead, Tivo Injured In Restaurant Donnybrook told us to get estimates on repairs.

Wc did that, and are now asking you to issue bonds to pay for them." Provence, who said "even if we begin work today.it is toolate," told the court he favored a tax increase to pay for repairs, but that the hond issue was faster. But the magistrates, who later in the New York Out As 'Crime Capital' condition with head injuries; and Clyde Crawford was taken In Bristol Memorial Hospital, where he underwent surgery for head injuries and is listed in "fair" condition, Simpson said. Jerry Chapnian was arrested Saturday morning, and charged on three counts of assault, and was later released on Sfi.OOO bond according to Simpson. He was re arrested after Crawford.died, and is being held in the Sullivan County Jail on charges of first degree Clyde Chapman has been charged with, assault to commit murder and is being held on al Hie Sullivan County Jail at Blountvllle, Ray Lee Crawford is survived hy'his wife, Mrs. Debbie Pickle Crawford, Bristol; parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Clyde Crawford. Bristol; three brothers, James, Bill and Darrell Crawford, all of Bristol; two half-brothers, Carl and Arnold Slagle, both of Baltimore, four sisters, Mrs. Frances Meyer, Mrs. Charlotte Chatman, Miss Faye Crawford and Miss Peggy Crawford, all of Bristol; several aunts and uncles.

BRISTOL A Friday night fight at Crawford's Restaurant on fit. 421, in the Vinegar Hill section of Sullivan County has led to the death of one man, the hospitalization of two others, and felony charges against two other Sullivan Countians. Sullivan County Detective LI. Bill Simpson said the fight started about midnight between Chapman. 22, 14lli Street, Bristol, and Darrcll Crawford, son of the man who owned the restaurant.

Cause of the argument was not clear. After a brief exchange, Chapman left and re-turned with his brother and brother-in-law, Simpson said. When the men returned to.the restaurant, Jerry Chapman was armed with a ball bat, according to Simpson, and his brother, Clyde Chapman, 20, 218 Delancy Street, Bristol, Tenn. with a knife. Simpson said his investigation showed Jerry Chapman struck Eddie Counts, 26, of the Holston Valley community near where the restaurant is located, and Clyde Crawford, 60, owner of the restaurant, and Roy Lee Crawford, 18, Rl, 3, Bristol, on their heads with the bat, Roy Lee Crawford was taken to the Johnson City Memorial Hospital about 4:35 a.m.

Saturday where he died of head injuries about fl p.m. Monday. Eddie Counts was taken to Johnson City Memorial Hospital, where he is listed in "critical" 4 A week before the report came out, Detroit Police Commissioner Philip Tan-nian said only about half of the city's crimes are ever reported to police. Inspector Richard Boutin, spokesman for Detroit's force, Monday said the department is undergoing a major reorganization, including sending more desk men out on the streets, establishing "mini-stations" and using 911 as an emergency police number. A spokesman said the Chicago department was still studying the report, but he noted that the force was becfed up from 13,350 officers In 1973 to 14,000 in 1974.

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley disputed the report, saying, "I don't think that's true. There's as much crime reported in Chicago as any city in the nation." By United Press International New York had the lowest rate of violent crime of 13 cities studied in a recent federal survey and the city's police chief says, "We are very gratified." "Many people have tried to make fun or make a joke at the expense of Nevy.York," Commissioner Michael Codd said Monday, adding, "New York is not theerime capital of the nation," The heads of police departments in other cities, however, ho-hummod the as obvious. "When applied to the five largest cities of our nation, with rather limited numbers of people questioned, It is of dubious value," said Philadelphia Police Chief Joseph F. O'Neill. The crime figures, which were gathered for the Justice Department's I.aw Enforcement Assistance Administration, showed that the actual number of crimes in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles and New York was two.

or three times the number reported to police, and in Philadelphia it was five times greater. The survey, said the gap was caused by victims who do not report crimes. Police chiefs said they already knew that and in fact were implementing special programs to deal with the problem. Los Angeles Police Chief Edward M. Davis said, "Historically, this city has had a good reporting system.

Crimes in the category of violent felonies such as murder, robbery, business and residential burglary, are reported without failure." i Partly cloudy and tfnued mIM tkrjmgi twlav Piwtihiiiiv at iivht fTMi this mornlac. Blcfc.