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Press-Telegram from Long Beach, California • 1

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t- HOME EDITION LUMBER PRICE LIDS RESTORED Story on Page A-10 38 PAGES 10 CENTS Classified HE 2-5959 LONG BEACH CALIF MON JULY 17 1972 Phone HE 5-1161 says support III boss blasts foe of ticket Laird hints FI 5 support traded for Eagleton nod i i 4 A -iPv i JF RESIDENTS OF LENADOON HOUSING LEAVE THEIR HOMES IN PROTEST British Army occupation of the area brings new strife to troubled zone AE Wire hole British offer to withdraw B52s aid in battle area if IRA quits So Viet MAYOR RICHARD DALEY am a Kingpin in Mafia WASHINGTON (if) Secretary of Defense Melvin ILaird suggested today the Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern has agreed to support the Air new F15 airplane as the price for getting Sen Thomas Eagleton as his running mate Eagleton is trom Missouri where the F15 is being built by McDonnell Douglas Corp of St Louis As president McGovern has said he would scrap the F15 in favor of development of a less costly lightweight fighter At a Pentagon news conference Laird said: am led to believe however that perhaps the vice presidential candidate in nart of his agreement to run was able to get a modification of that The Defense Secretary did not say where he got this information or on what it was based LAIRD NOTED that the F15 is the first weapons system developed under new contracting procedures instituted during his administration for which he claimed and total responsibility as Secretary of Louis is known as phantomtown USA and it will be known as Eagle-town Laird quipped with a play on words and name The F15 dubbed the Eagle by the Air Force at its rollout last month is intended to replace the F4 Phamtom which 'is also built by McDonnell-Doug-las in St Louis McGovern meanwhile was flying to tne Black Hills of his native South Dakota for two weeks of rest staff reshuffling and strategic planning for the fall campaign against President Nixon He left National Airport at 10:35 a on a chartered plane for Rapid City THE South Dakota senator will be accompanied by a small personal staff Starting later this week his top political advisers financial planners and his running mate Sen Thomas Eagteteri of Mis- (Turn to Back Page Col 4) BELFAST (UPI) Brit-ain offered to withdraw its troops from bat-tie-ravaged Lenadoon area today if Roman Catholics persuaded Irish Republican Army gunmen to get out MQSt of 6000 9 residents marched away from their homes Sunday in protest against the British military presence they said made the area a bat tlefield Most of the evacuees have stayed away Today after conferences between the parish priest the Rev Jack Fitzsimons and other community leaders and government officials secretary of state for Northern Ireland William Whitelaw proposed a mutual army-IKA pull-out A spokesman said the army had moved into the Lenadoom area only after four days and nights of IRA attacks on security forces military operation was intended to stop this shooting and has done so the spokesman said But if Rev Fitzsimons and other community leaders persuaded the IRA not to use Lenadoon for attacks British troops would be progressively withdrawn the spokesman said The IRA said earlier it would not agree to a cease-fire In fighting in Belfast and Londonderry earlier British troops reported hitting five gunmen The army said sniper attacks wounded one soldier in Catholic Lower Fall area and another in Strabane on the Irish Republic border A BOMBING wave which the oIRA has said aims at wrecking economy also roared on Bombs blasted a fertilizer factory in IRA-controlled Catholic Boggide district a barricaded area closed off to the army and police and a downtown wholesale grocery In both cases gunmen who planted CHICAGO (UPI) Mayor Richard Daley said today he will support the Democratic ticket at all levels in the November election am a the mayor said firmly at a news conference Daley was critical of the alternate slate of 59 delegates which bumped him from the Democtatic National Convention He said however he would cooperate with the slate led by Alderman William Singer if group supports Democrats at the local level as well as at the national Daley who did not ap pear in Miami Beach for the convention denied he had gone to Miami Beach or even that he had been at his family home Grand Beach Mich He said he was visiting his grandchildren other places" DALEY SAID hehad not been in touch with Sen George McGovern the Democratic presidential candidate since McGovern was nominated for the presidency at the convention Daley began his news conference by smiling al reporters agd saying and gentlemen how-are and then reading a statement have stated my position many times previously and I repeat it today I am 1 am chairman of the Democratic Party of Cook County and have always supported the nominee of the Democratic Party I will support every candidate on the Democratic ticket federaL state and county "Because of the many letters we have received and telephone calls it is difficult to believe the people of Cook County will accept as representatives of the Democratic Party individuals who selected themselves and disenfranchised 900000 voters "We can be proud of those Democratic delegates who presented themselves to the voters and -were elected by- the people 8 of attackers SAIGON UPt Nearly 100 US B52 bombers and a naval task force of more than a dcen cruisers and destroyers blasted North Vietnamese positions on both sides of the demilitarized zone tdclay in some of the heaviest bombardments of the war The raids were in support of a 20000-man South Vietnamese counteroffensive on the northern front They had the two-fold objective of destroying North Vietnamese troops and supplies already on the battleground and cutting off reinforcements and war materials reportedly moving south The Saigon command reported light fighting on the edges of Quango Tri the provincial capital fell to the North Vietnamese TMay 1 It said South Vietnamese paratroopers driving from the East had inched their way to within 200 to 300 yards of the Citadel the 19th century fortress in the heart of the city THE GOVERNMENT has maintained that its the bombs gave warning and there were no casualties Lenadoon area largely evacuated by Catholic families Sunday remained largely deserted today except for troops and men of the Catholic organization on volunteer patrol The army said eight people fiye civilians two soldiers and a policeman died in weekend violence in Northern Ireland Army officials issuing revised figures said it brought to 446 the number of fatalities in the three years of bloodshed THE DEATH toll since the extremist provisional wing called off its two-week-old cease-fire July 9 stands at 36 At least 6000 Catholic men women and children spent the night in two schools in Catholic Andersonstown area They left their homes in the Lenadoon housing development 'Sunday to protest the presence of hundreds of soldiers in the district Some returned to their homes overnight but the NEW YORK (UPI) -Police today questioned associates and of Thomas Eboli underboss of the Genovese crime family who was Picture on Page A-3 slain in Brooklyn Sunday in New 15th gang-land-style execution in the past year are checking all leads known associates and a police spokesman said He said Carlo GambinO the aging of the of organized crime in the Nejv York area was among the underworld figures to be questioned in the carefully planned slaying of Eboli 61 The body of the dapper (Turn to Back Page Col 4) 43 flaws in new' plane told solons 4 guards held (Turn to Back Page Col 1) (Turn to Back Page Co! 4) Fischer takes first chess tourney victory Things bom! Jf ion me dul 432-3451 Inventive 1 responded to an ad by Royalty Engineering and Development Co Inc 8531 Florence Ave Downey and one of their representatives came to my home Oct 6 He was very enthusiastic about my idea for a tele- at scopic measuring tape and HKnrr I said he was sure they S-Aum could get it manufactured and make monev for us and make money for us WASHINGTON The Navy found 43 major flaws in test models of its new F14 fighter plane during a preliminary evaluation late last year according to congressional testimony made public today Sixteen of those deficiencies related to safety The Navy told a House appropriations subcommittee that action is under and that a majority of the repaired aircraft would be ready for testing this summer This testimony which also reported 75 minor problems with the F14 came during closed-door budget hearingslast April An F14 crashed into Chesapeake Bay June 30 killing its civilian test pilot Navy sources said divers still are recovering pieces of the piaffe and that cause of the crash has not yet been determined The specific problems detected during evaluation flights by Navy pilots last November and December were referred to only sketchily in the April report to the House subcommittee BUT TESTIMONY by senior admirals under questioning indicated deficiencies involved engines stalling difficulty in recovering from spins' and flight range among other things In addition the congressmen were told that 10 deficiencies were found in the system controlling the Phoenix missile the principal weapon Most of these problems too will bp straightened out the Navy assured the subcommittee 2 The F14 is designed to serve the Navy in fleet air defense and air superiority missions in the late 1970s and the 1980s This plane and the Air new F15 are billed by defense leaders as the only US fighters which will be capable of dueling the latest Soviet war planes fire erupts at penitentiary BULLETIN BALTIMORE (UPl -Four guards were held hostage and a fire erupted in a woodworking shop at the Maryland Penitentiary today less than 48 hours after rioting caused $15 million damage to the House of Correction at Jessup Md A ttyo-alarm fire broke out in the woodworking shop and the four guards were grabbed by inmates The inmates demanded a meeting with Rep Parren Mitchell D-Md a black who with Gov Marvin Mandel negotiated an end to the House of Correction riot early Sunday (See story on Page A-2A REYKJAVIK dPI -World chess champion Boris Spassky resigned the third game against Bobby Fischer today fiva minutes after the dock was switched on to resume their adjourned game Referee Lothar Schmid opened sealed 41st move It was bishop to queen six Fischer was not in sight Spassky waited only minutes and knocked over WHERE TO FIND XT LB Marine and ex-nun become first female FBI agents his king giving the game to Fischer THE SCORE in the 24-game match now stands at 2-1 in favor Spassky walked off the stage as the spectators in the 2500-seat auditorium sat in total silence The Russian had lost his first game ever to Fischer Spassky had been playing white which gave him a slight advantage sealed move had been predicted as the winning move by all grandmasters watching the game The American challenger after keeping the match in suspense with protests against TV and movie cameras foreed the start of the third game on Sunday to a private room offstage SPASSKY threw the competition into doubt early today by saying he would refuse to play again in the private room Chief Referee Lothar Schmid announced shortly after noon however that the adjourned game would go on in the main hall where the 24-game match began last Tuesday Fischer had said that the (Turn to Back Page Col 2) An Air Force reconnaissance jet flies for HRs hours at a speed of more than 2000 miles per hour to set an new record Page A-4 both He drew up a contract and I gave him a total of $350 TYiat was 10 months ago and heard nothing although I have written general manager James Hamilton several times and also have called He answer my letters or calls Once in March I got a letter from Royalty with a brochure enclosed that had a version of what your product will look like in finished They said the brochure was distributed to prospective manufacturers Can ACTION LINE find out if they are going to produce my invention or refund my money? Mrs EB Long Beach gvie her a refund since we -already have spent more than she gave ns trying to get her product ACTION LINE wds told by Hamilton Hamilton who claimed be had been in tough with yon said never encourage people There is no guarantee that an fdea will be marketed In fact the percentage of those we get manufactured is very low he said are distributing her brochure to manufacturers across the country I will contact her if we have any In late May the California state attorney office filed suit against Roy alty Engineering and Development as well as and New Products Crosby Research Inc: and Simons IdeasInventions Inc all invention promotion firms The complaint charges the (Turn to Back Page Col 7) DALEY WAS asked xut the fact that his statement did not mention McGovern and if he would actively support the South Dakotan against President in November have to the Daley replied statement speaks for Daley said he had sent McGovern a telegram Monday containing a copy of his statement of support Weather TONIGHT AND TUESDAY LB AREA Iate night and early morning clouds otherwise mostly sunny Highs near 88 low 65 MOUNTAINS Chance of scattered thundershowers otherwise fair Slightly cooler Highs upper 70s and 80s lows 50 to 65 DESERTS Scattered thundershowers otherwise fair Winds at times High upper 90s and 100s lows 65 to 80 high desert and 75 to 85 low desert was commissioned a Marine lieutenant June 25 1969 and served until her discharge three days ago when she ws a lieutenant at Camp Allen Norfolk Ya Miss Pierce a former nun was a member of the Sisters of Mercy religious order from 1959-70 She attended Medaille College Buffalo NY and St Bon-aventure University Olean NY 1965-70 They immediately began the regular 14-week training course given their male counterparts The women took the oath of office from acting FBI Director Patrick Gray HI Gray succeeded the late Edgar Hoover and ordered a search for prospective FBI women as one -of Yus first acts Hoover long encouraged a policy against women agents Miss Roley the daughter of Laguna Beach residents retired Marine Lt Col and Mrs William Roley attended the University of Maryland College Park Md 1965-66 and California State University Fullerton from 1966-68 She WASHINGTON (UPI) -A former Marine from California and a former nun from upstate New York became the first female FBI agents today Both are single The new agents were identified as Susan Lynn Roley 25 formerly of Long Beach a former officer of the Marine Corps and Joanne Pierce 31 Niagara Falls NY who holds a bachelor of arts and a master of arts degree in history and has served as a clerical employe of the FBI since March 23 1970 A-7 -2 to 11 S-7 S-7 B-2 B-6 7 Jeahe S-7 A-4J 7 My B-l C-2 B-3 Shipping C-2 Sports S-l to 6 C-l Tides C-Z C-12 Earl C-l li.

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