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bared multimillion-dol spree tom outfitting a Lear jet he even own A local Cadillac dealer also remembers him and the Palm Bay Club which once refused guest mem- tape recorder casettes with the tales of how an ex-convict can turn into a bon vivant and heir to unimaginable millions by simply claiming to be Alan Durham III of North Carolina never once claimed to be what people always assumed I Durham said in explaining to police how he pulled off a two-year series of mind-boggling that finally led to his ar MIAMI (UPI) Alan Durham III of North Carolina cradled a microphone in his manicured hand and told a fascinated audience really easy to buy a $4 million yacht with a uniformed crew of thing is you see if people think you have money they dare insult you by asking you for he said For the last five days Durham has filled a dozen wade through his amazing financial career ssj This much however police have learned and confirmed: Gokey once served time in New Attica -prison on forgery charges and has been sought by the FBI in Syrapuse NY for more than a year Several times in the past two years Gokey has tive Gerald Green says Gokey has pulled off Triost incredible confidence game ever heard of" just so relieved all Gokey told -totfr police an avrfuf fat -T of pressure being rich like that And besides you meet such tacky Gokey has been talking freely since Monday but police say it may be several weeks before they been the very honored guest of the Lear Jet Corp on expense-paid excursions to the pleasure spas The Lear Corp of course thought it would be the favored 'firm stm WW' ham III of North Carolina bought a fleet of executive jets The Grumman Aircraft Corp of California also remembers Alan He owes them $1000(1 for cus- rest here last Monday at the posh Palm Bay Club What people always assumed about Alan Durham III was that he was the last heir to a North Carolina tobacco fortune But Alan from North Carolina his name Durham and he even smoke REALLY a 29- year-old accountant named Alan Gokey and Miami police detec remembers falling all over itself to admit Alan BUT THE people who (Turn to Back Pg Col 4) HOME EDITION NEW ARTHRITIS WEAPON READY Story on Page B-l £23? LONG BEACH CALIF FRI MAY 10 1974 SI 10 CENTS Phone HE 5-1161 64 PAGES Classified HE 2-5959 Push for Nixon to quit builds Kissinger sees Nixon orders $103 billion Probers seek Israeli leaders to spur US Homebuilding pre-Watergate tape as key 6 some progress 9 WASHINGTON (UPI) -Sen Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania joined a growing chorus of Republicans and former supporters of President Nixon in calling for his resignation today as a service to country and the The White House insisted that the President intends to stick out his term and called on Americans to give him process" like any other citizen Schweicker made public a letter to Nixon in which he said transcripts of the Watergate conversations at total disregai for the tooral and ethical values upon which this nation was and provided evidence of moral corrosion destroying and debasing the JERUSALEM (UPI) -Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger met with Israeli leaders for an hour and 15 minutes today and said he is making toward negotiating a troop disengagement agreement between Israel and Syria An offi- cial with him said Kissinger put his chances of success at 52-48 are now going through a detailed examination and as I said I continue to believe that some progress is being made but we cannot talk-about an Kissinger said after emerging from the meeting in Prime Minister Golda flee Foreign Minister Abba Eban one of the Israeli negotiators said: had a very good meeting in which we heard interesting reports fron Secretary Kissinger pn his visits to Saudi Arabia and Egypt reviewed the situation in light of those reports and we also continued our very detailed and concrete analysis of the elements involved in a disengagement DURING THE meeting Israeli military aides carried in cases contain ing maps of the Golan Heights region Kissinger returned to Israel saying he was a shade more optimistic in the last 24 hours that an agreement could be reached Israeli deputy Prime Minister Yigal Allon was even more optimistic he said he not be if an agreement were in sight Egyp tian officials in Cairo said Kissinger would hold "very talks over the next four days implying ttat an agreement might be in the making A high American official the Kissinger party reported that the' odds change daily in the endless discussion aboard plane and said he would place chances of success today at about 52-48 in favor THE OFFICIAL said that it was quite possible there would be a break in favor of an agreement early next week not likely but possible as he put it The official said that the break should come if it comes by around Tues- (Turn to Back Pg Col 3) WASHINGTON (AP) -The tape of a White House conversation two months before the June 1972 Watergate burglary emerged today as a key piece of evidence missing in the House Judiciary impeach-ment probe Committee sources said a subpoena for the tape will probably be issued next week The tape of an April 4 1972 meeting between President Nixon former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman and former Atty Gen John Mitchell is one of 76 Watergate tapes Nixon has refused to turn over to the committee The gap the missing evidence leaves in the case put together by the Judiciary Committee staff was pointed out by chief counsel John Doar Thursday when presentation of the evidence began DOAR recommended the tape be subpoenaed and Chairman Peter Rodino D-NJ said a day would be set aside next week for the committee to act on such matters as the issuance of subpoenas The committee is due to resume the presentation of evidence next Tuesday and continue through Thursday but could set aside a period to act on other matters The importance of the April 4 meeting is based on the testimony of Jeb Stuart Magruder deputy director of re-election committee who has pleaded guilty to a charge of obstructing justice Magruder said Gordon plan for electronic PRESIDENT NIXON DISCUSSING NEW HOUSING FUND James Lynn HUD secretary pays close attention AP Wi rephoto WASHINGTON (AP) -President Nixon an- nounced today he is pumping in an additional $103 billion to bolster the sagging housing market The President said the money will be used to subsidize interest rates on conventional government-insured mortgages and to provide additional cash for the savings and loan institutions The President said the money supplied to the savings and loans institutions would be provided by the Treasury under its standby loan authority THE SAVINGS and loans are the biggest con-" frtbtitdfs to the housing mortgage market They have been plagued by declining money to leira as investors seek out ihore lucrative investments with interest rates soaring President Nixon said the money the government is committing should help finance over 200000 additional homes The housing industry has been in a steady de cline since 1973 with housing starts of 318000 for the first three months of this year compared to 488000 for the same period last year THE action expands a program initiated last January when the Department of Housing and Urban Development committed over $6 billion to mortgage subsidies in an effort to spur construction of 200-000 new homes The current permissible maximum on FHA-VA mortgages is BVz per cent The President said he would raise that to 8 per cent to make the mortgages more attractive The administration committed $33 billion to the subsidy program this time and raised the percentage home buyers would pay to eight per cent The difference be- (Turn to Back Pg Col 6) WHERE TO FIND IT Baby sitter found with infant she stole Page A-5 Liddy convicted Ford cuts of contempt tour to ml 452-3451 ACTION LINE is your service solving your problems getting your answers cutting red tape and standing up for your rights To get action write ACTION LINE Box Long Beach Calif 90844 or dial 432-3451 between 9 a and 9 pm Monday through Friday Questions are selected for their general interest and helpfulness Please do not send original documents you wish returned SCHWEICKER was the second first-term Republican senator in two days to suggest Nixon leave office voluntarily rather than fight the impeachment process that the House Judiciary Committee formally started Thursday afternoon Sen Marlow Cook R-Ky said late Thursday that the Presi- (Turii to Back Pg Col 1) Newspapers ask Nixon leave job Associated Press Three newspapers that supported President Nixon in 1968 and 1972 have editorials in issues calling for his resignation or impeachment The positions taken by the Los Angeles Times Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Kansas City Times follow by one day a similar call by the Chicago Tribune which also had been a Nixon supporter Also the Nashville Tennessean said in its editions Nixon should resign from office The Tennessean which supported the 1972 presidential bid of Sen George McGovern D-SD said Nixon must be painfully aware that he has lost the most desperate and dangerous gamble of his political The Los Angeles Times said the transcripts "contain presumptive evidence of at least one impeachable the obstruction of justice" The newspaper said nothing less than impeachment by the House and trial by the Senate could determine the fitness to continue in office Long trip see Nixon WASHINGTON (UPI) -Vice President Gerald Ford apparently embarked on a harder line on the handling of Watergate conferred with President Nixon today before resuming his most ambitious one-month speaking tour since taking office Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren said Nixon did not bring up the question of resignation during the hour-long meeting because Jord very well the intention and feeling on the matter and that the President intends to complete his Warren said the two leaders had a about domestic and foreign policies of this country including inflation and the new housing program The White House meeting this morning followed some of strongest statements yet on the scandals and the way they were treated at the White House although he insisted that Nixon is innocent of any impeachable offense BILL ROBERTS deputy press secretary was asked just before the meeting if comments at Charleston 111 Thurs- (Turn to Back Pg Col'S) WASHINGTON (AP) -G Gordon Liddy was found guilty on two counts of contempt of Congress today despite a plea that lips were against telling what he knew about the White House plumbers unit US District Judge John Pratt gave Liddy a suspended sentence of six months on each count In suspending the sentence and putting Liddy on one probation the judge noted what he called the extenuating circumstances that Liddy is already serving a heavy sentence in connection with his Watergate conviction and other contempt conviction Liddy had told the court he would appeal if convicted and said he had rejected a proposed compromise for going back to the House subcommittee before which he had refused even to be sworn in lawyer Peter Maroulis and Watergate counsel Philip A Lacovara had agreed Liddy could purge the contempt by going back to the subcommittee taking the oath but then refusing to answer any question under the Fifth Amendment protection against self-in-crimination JUDGE PRATT found Liddy guilty of one count (refusing to be sworn in last July 20 before the House intelligence sub- (Turn to Back Pg Col 1) Nixon to speak in Okla Saturday WASHINGTON (AP) -President Nixon will fly to Oklahoma late Saturday afternoon to give an evening speech at commencement exercises at Oklahoma State University the White House said today The President and Mrs Nixon are due to arrive at Vance Air Force Base in Enid Okla at 6:45 pm and to helicopter to Stillwater for the speech in the university stadium shortly after 7:30 pm feather TONIGHT AND SATURDAY LB Night and morning clouds clearing Low 60 High 72 Night and morning coastal fog otherwise fair Low 46 High 75 20 to 30 mile wind gusts Low 65 High 104 GORDON LIDDY Guilty again committee which was investigating CIA aspects of Watergate and one count of refusing to testify- liddy is now serving a contempt sentence in the District of Columbia jail for refusing to testify before the Watergate grand jury When that sentence ends next month he faces a sentence of from six years eight months to 20 years on conviction of Burglary conspiracy and wiretapping in the Watergate break-in Liddy has refused to testify anywhere on his alleged surveillance plan leading to the Watergate break-in and role in White Houe plumbers activities including the burglary of Daniel office My daughter bought an Amtrak round-trip ticket from the MGM Travel Service in Pasadena in August The first half of the train trip was so unpleasant she turned in her ticket in Oklahoma and came home by car In attempts to get a refund on the unused portion of her ticket written to Amtrak officials in Los Angeles and in Washington DC also to our congressman a newspaper columnist and a radio station ombudsman both in San Francisco and have gone to the Amtrak office and the travel service in Pasadena She still have her refund which should be about $195 Can you do something since we know what else to try CEJ Bellflower Your daughter now has all the money she thought she had coming plus an extra $73 that Amtrak figured it owed her After several phone calls we traced her claim file to Wash- (Turn to Page A-4 Col 1 A-26 C-9 to 24 A-20 A-20 B-2 B-l B-fi 7 Jeane A-20 A-25 26 C-9 C-9 Shipping C-9 Sports-C-1 to 7 A-28 to 31 A-21 22 23 C-8 Vital C-9 Weather-C-9 A-21 Word B-5 i i.