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HOURS IN DRAIN HOME EDITION PAIR LOST 12 PRESS TELEGRAM Story on Page A-6 Classified HE 2-5959 LONG JAN. 21, 1971 Phone HE 5-1161 48 PAGES 10 CENTS BEACH, THURSDAY, Truman Taken Russell Senator Oust Ted Kennedy to Hospital; Has Dies as Senate Leader Pain Condition Good, Say Physicians KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) Former President Harry S. Truman, 86, was rushed in an ambulance to a hospital today suffering severe stomach pain. Doctors said he was in good condition.

His wife Bess, 85, was at his bedside. "The 86-year-old former president is resting quietly in his hospital room," said a medical statement issued at: noon at Research Hospital in South Kansas City. "He is conscious and his condition is listed as good." THE NATION'S 33rd chief executive was driven the 15. miles to the hospital from his 17-room victorian mansion in Independence, and admitted at 8:28 a.m. He was taken to a private room on the third floor.

"He seems to be doing all right. He's better than when they took him from home," said Mary Jane Truman, the former president's younger sister who said she talked via telephone from her home at Grandview, to Truman's wife at the hospital. "He's doing fine. He has these little setbacks every once in a while. He's going to be all right," Miss Truman said.

-TRUMAN'S attending physician said he was hospitalized because of a "rather sudden onset of moderately severe abdominal The former president was last hospitalized on Feb. 21, 1969, with acute gastroenteritis inflammation of the stomach and intestines. He was dismissed four days later. The current hospital stay was the sixth for Truman since he left the White House in 1953. John P.

Dreeves, a hospital spokesman who released the medical statement, said doctors "were not defining at this time" the nature of Truman's illness. MR. TRUMAN is much better right now than when he was brought to the hospital, Dreeves said "'He is suffering less discomfort." Doctors said Truman TRUMAN, A-6, Col. 1 WHERE TO FIND IT The companion of a hunter who survived 53 days in the snowy wilds killed himself in despair. Page A-11.

Beach Combing-B-1. Bridge-B-8. C-9 to 16. ComicsC-7. Crossword 23.

Jeane DixonC-7. L.A.C.-B-3. Obituaries-C-9. Robeson-B-3. Shipping Table-B-5.

Sports-C-1 to 6. Tedd Thomey18, 19. Theaters-A-20. TV, Radio-C-8. Tides, -B-5.

Vital Statistics-B-5. Earl Wilson-A-20. WomenB-6, 7, 8. WASHINGTON (UPI) Richard B. Russell, a commanding figure in the Senate through five decades, died today after a prolonged illness.

He was 73. The Georgia Democrat was dean of the Senate, chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee and senior member of the equally influential Armed Services Committee, which he once headed. He died on the opening day of the 92nd Congress the first opening day he had missed since coming to the Senate in 1933. RUSSELL WAS the acknowledged elder statesman of the Senate's SouthRICHARD B. RUSSELL Cancer, Emphysema ern block and because of his seniority of service was president pro tem of the Senate a post which placed him third in line for succession to the presidency of the United States.

Russell's office said he died at 2:25 p.m. from "respiratory insufficiency due to pulmonary difficulty." He died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center where he had been hospitalized since Dec. 8 with a lower respiratory infection complicated by chronic emphysema. His condition took a turn for the worse early Tuesday. In 1969, doctors discovered that Russell had a malignant lung tumor, but the condition was arrested by a series of cobalt radiation treatments.

Live Bomb: Freeway Closed Off LOS ANGELES (P Four sticks of dynamite. hooked to burnt, 40-second fuses were disarmed early today after being found on. the doorstep of a county welfare office bordering the busy Santa Ana freeway, sheriff's deputies said. Part of the freeway, jammed with morning traffic, was closed for 20 minutes as the Los Angeles County sheriff's bomb squad removed the dynamite and disarmed it in a nearby parking lot, deputies said. A woman arriving for work at the East Los Angeles office discovered the explosives and called the sheriff's department.

The few employes in the building were evacuated and others 'arriving kept from entering, deputies said. Search for Youth Missing in Wilds UPLAND (UPI) Searchers pressed, their efforts today to find 19-yearold David Parker, who has been missing and injured in the Cucamonga wilderness since Monday night. in Startling Upset Candlelight Killer Found Strangled With Shirt in Cell By JOHN PHILIP Associated Press "The candlelight killer Ed Stevens said. But Stestrikes again" was vens said Liberty did not scrawled in pencil across admit the slaying, the closet door. Candles burned near the body when SHERIFF JOHN Duffy police arrived.

said Liberty's body was found by deputies who The murder, one of sevritualistic rushed to his cell when an eral slayings emergency alarm sounded. still puzzling authorities in Duffy said the alarm had the West, was discovered to be sounded by one of June 7, but the young man Liberty's cellmates eiwho admitted scribbling the phrase has taken further Carl Riggs, 22, one of ther details to the grave. two Michigan brothers charged in the slaying of a Robert Willard Liberty, 23, Long Beach slayer of San Diego police officer, or his woman friend, was Timothy Dudley, 24, New York, charged in connecfound strangled with his tion with another murder. own shirt in his San Diego jail cell Wednesday, five Riggs Dudley were and days before the start of his placed in separate cells. trial in the Stevens said they would be June murder of a male nurse.

questioned after authorities talk to the men's -atLiberty that admitted writtorneys. in ing he penciled "the Stevens said authorities candlelight killer strikes had hoped the trial of Libagain" on a closet door in erty would shed the San Diego apartment on light of Robert Iriom, 52, who several other unsolved murders in the West inwas found beaten, stabbed and strangled, Police Lt. CANDLELIGHT, A-6, Col. 3 Oil Crews Battle to Save Bird Haven SAN FRANCISCO (P) Scientists say the mammoth oil slick spreading around San Francisco is endangering fragile ecology of Bolinas Lagoon, one of the last feeding grounds for" nesting colonies of the great blue heron and white egret. Hundreds of volunteers have converged on the mouth of the lagoon 20 miles north of San Francisco to attempt to prevent.

an inch-thick slick. resulting from a tanker collision from entering the birdfeeding grounds. floating boom was placed across the mouth of the lagoon. -Workers spread straw on the oil, then raked the oil-saturated straw ashore by the tons. THE BOOM apparently held off the slick at today's morning high tide.

"It looks as though the lagoon will be secure, but we have our fingers 'crossed," said Russ Revere, an assistant at the College of Marin's Bolinas Marine Biology Station. An estimated 2,500 birds have been brought to cleaning stations set up throughBULLETIN 2 More Tuna Boats Seized by Ecuador SAN DIEGO (UPI) The tuna seiners Hornet and Quo Vadis were seized by Ecuador today, the American Tunaboat Association saidThis brought 'to 11 the number of fishing vessels seized by Ecuador. in the past two weeks. The others have been fined and released. (Related Story, A-16) Byrd Wins Top Demo Combined News Services SEN.

ROBERT BYRD The Victor SEN. EDWARD KENNEDY The Loser CABLE FLAW CUTS POWER IN EAST L.B. About 500 homes and businesses in the eastern -section of Long Beach were without electricity for to almost two hours this morning after the failure of an underground power cable. Southern California Edison Co. reported that the affected area included College Park Estates, south of Seventh Street and west of Studebaker Road, and along Pacific Coast Highway, between Colorado and Second streets.

A company spokesman said the failure occurred at 7:58 a.m. Power was restored in some areas at 9:27 a.m. and in the entire region at 9:42 a.m. Drizzles Chase Fog and Smog From Area Early morning drizzles dampened the Long Beach area today, but the harbor region was clear of the persistent heavy fog that hovered over much of Los Angeles. The 'Marine Exchange reported visibility this morning of miles and no fog through the night.

The National Weather Service forecast hazy sunshine and a high of 62 today in the Long Beach area. The overnight low was 53, and the high Wednesday was 62. Friday's high will be another 62. The Air Pollution Control District predicted light smog today in the Los Angeles Basin. Wednesday, as a Santa Ana system eased, both carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen levels were cut sharply less than half of the smogelement figures for Tuesday.

WASHINGTON The new 92nd Congress formally convened today with Senate Democrats setting off a political bomb by ousting Sen. Edward M. Kennedy from their leadership ranks. Kennedy went down to defeat for the post of Democratic Senate whip to Sen. Robert C.

Byrd of West Virginia by a vote of 31 to 24 only moments before the session formally began at noon. Kennedy's ouster from the job he had held only two years overshadowed other opening day developments. HARRY S. TRUMAN Ex-President Rushed to Hospital 19 Die in French AF Plane Crash AUBENAS, France ered the wreckage 15 miles (UPI) A "Nord 262 from Privas in the ArFrench Air Force transdeche Department. port plane carrying Army officers and directors A rescue squad was of the French Atomic called to the scene but was Energy Commission crashed and hampered in its efforts by exploded today in wilderdeep snow.

ness near Aix-En-ProvFrench officials said ince, a French army offihigh armed forces officers, cial said. including an admiral and The official said there an Air Force general were appeared to be no survion the plane with the sevvors among the 19 persons en Atomic Energy Comon board. mission members. The plane disappeared The group was en route around midmorning on a to the Pierrelatte nuclear flight from Paris to Orplant producing fissionable ange, southern France. An material for hydrogen Army helicopter discovbombs.

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Red and Dead Q. To settle a family dispute, find out if the Pacific Electric Red east on Ocean Boulevard from Long Syndicate A AUREI KIDS NEVER GET ofF. THE PoT across Naples Island and ACTION -LINE, BYRD, KNOWN to be far more conservative than Kennedy, now is No. 2 man on the Democratic leadership ladder behind only Sen. Mike Mansfield, who was unopposed for majority leader.

The upset also jolted any possible 1972 presidential hopes held for Kennedy by his supporters, Senate Republicans reelected Sen. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania as their leader by a narrow, 24 to 20, margin over Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. of Tennessee.

Scott had similarly defeated Baker for the post by a 24-19 vote two years ago, As the new Congress which will write the legislative record of President Nixon's next two years in office convened under firm Democratic control, the President's Indochina war policies came under sharp Senate criticism. out the region. An Audubon Society spokesman said, however, "there are a lot more out there." Experts say they are afraid more than 90 per cent of the affected birds will die. Dr. Martin Griffin, a director of the Audubon Canyon Ranch near the lagoon, said oil could poison vital marine life.

in the mud, such as ghost shrimp, a primary food for the birds. The Audtibon Canyon OIL SLICK, A-5, Col. 1 THERE ALSO WAS major change of command in the House, where Rep. Carl Albert, took SEN. BYRD, A-6, Col.

1 Jessup, 84, Killed; Was Seal Beach? If so, when was this line discontinued? M.R., Long Beach. A. Until 1940, the Red Cars ran from Long Beach to Seal" Beach as part of the Newport Line to Balboa; but the tracks did not run east along Ocean Boulevard. Starting from American Avenue (now Long Beach Boulevard), the line ran for a short distance along Third Street and them veered right at Olive Avenue to Broadway where they continued eastward to about Coronado Avenue and then headed south to Livingston Drive. From there, the tracks turned onto Second Street where they traveled through Belmont Shore, turned onto Appian Way.

The A-6, Col. 1 can ACTION LINE Cars ever traveled Beach Boulevard to CITIZENS still couldn't see, but it didn't hurt as: much. Shipping was hurt more. Only one vessel attempted to move in or out of the harbor area between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m., when the fog lifted slightly.

The passenger liner with 157 passengers aboard, was the only movement between these hours. It was delayed for more than an hour. in its departure from the Matson Terminal at Los Angeles Harbor. Three ships waited 1 for seven hours for the fog to lift enough to permit entry to the Port of Long Beach. Two other vessels one a Navy tanker were left idle at their moorings in the Port of Los Angeles.

When the fog lifted, pilots were kept busy moving 15 ships in four hours, making it one off, busiest days in history for Long Beach and Los Angeles harbors. Supervisor TULARE (UPI) Former Los Angeles County Supervisor Roger Jessup, 84, was killed Wednesday when his car hit a tree one mile north of here. The Highway Patrol said Jessup, of Palm Springs, was alone in the vehicle when it ran off the road and struck a eucalyptus tree. Jessup served on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for nearly a quarter of a century and was a prominent dairyman. Weather TONIGHT AND FRIDAY L.B.

AREA Night and early morning low clouds and fog. High 62. Low 54. MOUNTAINS Mostly sunny but windy. Highs in the 50s.

DESERTS Mostly sunny but windy. Upper valleys highs, 60s; lower valleys, 70s..