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78 2 a.m. 9 ft A timxt Mfu wttm mm I ON GUARD FOR 143 YEARS 144 No. 115 Tuesday, August 27, 1974 FIRST TO FLY ATLANTIC ALONE Dies Air Lindbergh IV (J- "1 i'7 AS dUffrr ii inmiiiMiiiiiiiiiiimr-Tii irr More pictures on Back Page From AP, UPI and Ni'w York Tlmos HANA, Hawaii Charles Augustus Lindbergh, the Lone Eagle, died Monday of cancer and was buried by the sea here. The heroic pilot of the 1920s, the father seared by a kidnap' tragedy of the 1930s, the early opponent of U.S. entry into World War II, the recluse who devoted his last decades to improving the world environment was 72 years old.

lie died at 7:15 a.m. at his seaside home on the island of Maui. He had come -here eight days earlier knowing he was dying of cancer of the lymph system. He had just spent a month in a New York hospital. With him when he died were his wife, author Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Land Lindbergh, one of his three surviving sons.

His physician, Dr. Milton Howell, said Lindbergh spent the last weeks of his life planning his own funeral. As he had requested, he was buried in a tiny church graveyard in a plain wooden coffin handmade by local cowboys. Only IS persons, close family friends and relatives, were present for the services at a century-old missionary church. The flyer was laid to rest in a 30-foot-deep grave, into which his son, Land placed a huge flower lei for his mother and a hibiscus fk)wer for himself.

HOWELL SAID LINDBERGH MADE no last statement but said "his final theme was that he would like for his actions in coming' to Hana, in having a simple funeral to be in itself a constructive act." In July, doctors at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York told Lindbergh. he could go home to die. Lindbergh said he did not wish to go to his Connecticut home, but wanted to return to Maui. "That is my home." i Howell said Lindbergh was flown to Hawaii on a stretcher. "All that could be done for him inNew York had been done," he said.

i Howell said Lindbergh had arranged for a small cottage by the ocean as his final home. The cottage was on the southern tip of the island of Maui, where the Lindberghs had maintained a home for several years. Lindbergh lapsed into unconsciousness at 9 p.m. Sunday, his doctor said, 'but up until then had been fully. alert and aware of his surroundings.

He had been visited last week by his other two sons, Scott, who lives in Fans, and Jon, who lives in Washington state. His daughters, Anne and Reeve, saw him in New York. LINDBERGH, WAS THE WORLD'S HERO in 1927 when he-was the first man to fly alone across the Atlantic. His flight in the single-engine Spirit of St. Louis captured the world's attention as nothing did'again until astronauts landed on the moon 42 years later.

i The 25-year-old" mail pilot's feat, an incredible achievement in 1927, and his modest and unassuming personality made him Please turn to Page 4A, Col. I Action Line solves problems, gets answers, cuts red tape, stands up for your rights. Write Action Line, Box 881, Detroit, Mich. 48231. Or dial 222-6464 between 8:30 a.m.

and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Lindbergh. 1902-1974 Onirics A. Lindbergh.in June 1927, about a month after his extraordinary May 21 flight to Paris.

My mother wants me to move out of the house. She doesn't care that I'm only 17 years old and would have to support myself with what I earn from my paper route. What's really unfair is that she gets Social Security benefits to help raise me and she says she'll keep getting the checks even alter I move out. tan she get away with this? R. Bay City.

If you're lasl child and leave mother's care, she can no longer receive support money. Because your father is deceased, you are entitled to tnis support until you reach 18 years of age. Social Security wanls you to stop by 1009 Madison Ave. North office in Bay City so particulars in your case can be ironed out. Another fiay City address you should consider visiting is 912 Adams.

That's the Bay County Department of Social Services, f'rks there are expecting you, will explore possibility of patching flings up between you and Mom. If nothing can be done about home, situation, agency might be able to provide temporary relief funds until you're settled. My husband wouldn't let me take a shower during a recent 3 Killer Convicts Cornere wmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmm In Ch One Killed ase: 5 thunderstorm. He claims that jf lightning struck tne pipes, I viould be electrocuted. Does he know what he's talking about? B.L., East Lansing.

Not unless you have one of those outdoor showers. According to Dr Talbert Stein over at Wayne State if lightning did happen to strike plumbing it would simply take trip via the pipes to nearest piece of earth. Even should lightning continue to travel Three-State Reign Of Terror Ended By UPI and Ai' STEPHENVII Tex. Three dangerous Colorado' convicts accused of murdering and plundering their way across three stales were cornered Monday night by state police ann Texas Rangers. One fugitive was killed, the second wounded and the third captured uninjured, officials said.

The three had terrorized the( Texas ranch country for four days. Police with clogs caught up with three men in the dark on a farm road and, when the three started running instead of answering a call to hall, started shooting. The fugitives did feet a second. Stroke of lightning measures 15 million plus volt jolt. ew years back, two barbers in Mint were cutting hair during thunderstorm when lightning bolt jumped from power line down electrical wires and landed in clippers they were using.

One guy was knocked cold, other escaped with heck of a headache. 1 f'-V 11 i ill I i i 1 I vv 1 St ,4 If 'i I i -a. Action mora healthy kinds of prob- On April we placed a pool table order with E. L. Rice and Co.

In Southgate. We were supposed to receive the table in five weeks but still don't have it. Now the company tells us that the manufacturer is discontinuing the table and it's tough to get one. What's going on here? H.M., Trenton. 1 Same thing that's going on all over manufacturer was more concerned about jacking up price than filling ordersE.L.

Rice-spokesman told Action Line once order was placed, all company could do was sit back and wait for manufacturer to ship merchandise. Company finally got tired of waiting, too; contacted manufacturer about delay. Seems only thing holding up table shipment was E. L. Rice okay on price Rice couldn't understand excuse, said approval was given months ago.

To put smiic back uri disiiuisionia customer's face, arrangements were made to ship table immediately and K. L. Rice absorbed price increase Greeks Say Turks Shooting On Border ATHENS (UPI) -G reck government sources said Turkish troops opened fire with machine guns Monday on Greek Army positions along the Evros River. It was the first reported shooting inci- dent on the frontier since the latest Cyprus crisis. "The Greek troops fanned i out but did not return the.

Turkish machine gun bursts," officials said. THE SOURCE, based in Alexandroupolis near the bor der, satd the Turkish troops opened fire against Greek positions at Telomeni near the village of Lykofi, 40 miles north of Alexandroupolis. Other details were lacking. The site is about 125 miles west of Istanbul and fiOlf miles from Cyprus. Rival Greek and Turkish Cypriot lenders met tor the first time since the.

Turkish invasion in what could be a breakthrough toward resuming the search for a Cyprus peace settlement. UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldhrim said the Greek Cypriot president Glafkos derides, and Turkish Cypriot vice-president, Raul Denktash, agreed to meet once every week on humanitarian issues, such as treatment of some 200,000 refugees, in a first step to reconcile two divided communities. Wald i is con-ducting a whirl wind Waldheim tour of shuttle diplomacy between Athens, Nicosia and Ankara, acted as a catalyst to bring together the leaders of the Turkish and Greek Cypriot Please turn to Page 2A, Col. 1 Wl The Night Lindy's Son Was Abducted Editor's Note: Samuel ft. blaekman, retired general nens editor of the Associated Press, covered the Lindbergh kidnap ease when fie was an AP reporter.

BY SAMUEL B. BLACKMAN NEW YORK -(AP) Forty-two years have passed since Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's son, 19-month-old Charles was kidnapped from the Lindberghs' Sourland Mountain home in Hopewell, N.J. Bruno" Richard Ilauptmann, a Bronx carpenter, died in New Jersey's electric chair for the child's murder.

But the then-governor, the late Harold G. Hoffman, stirred wide controversy by expressing doubt even on the eve of the execution and many years later that Hauptmann committed the crime or could have done it alone. 1 COVERED the kidnapping that blustery night of March 1932. and the executiuon of Hauptmann the night of April 3, 1936. The case against him was largely one of circumstantial evidence and Hauptmann continued to insist he was in nocent.

In the interv i years there has never heen a shred of evidence to alter the ver-d i I that llaup a worked alone. The kidnapping was one of the nations Hauptmann most celrbrated i i cases. Charles Jr. was the first of six children that were to be born the lamous flier and his wife, Anne Morrow, the daughter of banker and ambassador DAfight Morrow. The baby had been tucked early in the evening into his crib because he was suffering from a cold.

Several hours later, nursemaid Betty Gow visited the nursery on the second floor and found the baby missing. Lindbergh, who had been reading in the downstairs library, searched the nursery. in vain. "Anne, they have stolen our baby," he" testified later that he told his wife. He notified the stale police, Please turn to Page 4A, Col.

1 KIDNAP victim Charles A. Lindbergh whose murder shocked the world. 1 jasmin II I II I I I Action I I not returp the fire, police said. About 200 lo-al officers, sheriff's deputies and state troopers took part in the exhaustive, two-day search in the rugged, mosquite-covered ranchlands near Stephenville. POLICE identified the dead convict as Richard Mangiim, 22, and said he was shot in the face, arms and body.

Convicted murderer Jerry' Ulmrr, 22, was shot in the leg. The third convict, Dalton Williams, 29; was not hurt. The three men escaped from the Colorado Prison last Thursday, leaving dummies in their beds, and headed south on a bloody mission revenge against the people whe had helped send them to prison. A man and a woman were killed and five persons were wounded. Two young women were abducted and raped.

There was other seemingly senseless violence. Family dogs were shot, and a roadside cafe was fired upon lor no apparent reason. After the shooting spree on Saturday, the hunters became the hunted. For the next two days they eluded a massive police manhunt. Monday morning, a policeman spotted them through binoculars while they walked along a crock, but authorities were unable to catch up with the fugitives all day.

"I HE RAIN-SOAKED pushed the hunt Monday night. Officers guarded all roads Sunday and inspecting cars and warning motor- Please turn to Page 5A, Col. 4 along pipes it would probably be all shocked out by time it reached you in shower since water is low conductor. Also, you would be protected by fact that shower water isn't continuous filament. Lightning bolt from cloud to earth can be as long as eight miles, travel at rate of 100 million Line Line THE QUESTION A major toymakcr believes that more parents are buying such things as footballs for girls and dolls for boys when the children want them.

Do you favor such a trend? To vote NO Call 961-4422 Godfrey Moving and Storage Co. of Ann Arbor moved us into our retirement home last yean Their driver misjudged (Jle driveway and the truck went into a ditch, damaging some of our possessions. We filed a claim but still haven't been reimbursed for our loss. We got a letter four months ago saying a $592.91 claim had been filed with the company's insurance, the Farmers Insurance Group. That's the last we heard." Cedar.

After Action Line's next thing you heard was check hitting your mailbox. Damaged furniture claim delay resulted when Farmers Insurance couldn't find local adjuster's loss estimate. Adjuster was contacted and he sent duplicate claim form. Remaining information necessary to release damage check was secured from Godfrey's office and you had money few days later. At- rnoio A woman prisoner at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Framingham gets a piggyback ride from a male inmate.

First Coed Prison Says Its Problems. Are Healthy Ones FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) "Sexual intercourse is prohibited, but that's not to say it's not engaged in. We'd be pretty naive if we said that. But it's discreet," says Peter Bishop, He is the acting superintendent of the nation's first coed prison.

"When the prison went coed in March 197.1, some people saw the institution turning into a 24-hour orgy. But they were laymen's fantasies," Bishop said. Soviets Launch 2 Into Orhil MOSCOW (AP) Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 15 has been launched into orbit with two space rookies aboard, and everything is going as planned, Tass reported early Tuesday. Tass said Soyuz 15 was commanded by Lt. Col, Gennady Sarafanov, 32, and also carried Lev Dentin, 48, the only cosmonaut grandfather.

The purpose of the flight "is to continue scientific research and experiments in space started on July 3 of this year during the flight of the transport ship Soyuz 14 and the station Salyut 3," Tass said without elaborating, Soyuz 15 was launched 4:58 p.m. Monday Detroit time and "there is steady radio and television communication with the ship's crew," Tass said. Tass said the crewmen reported that they felt well, thai, atmosphere within the spacecraft's compartments was "within the pre-set limits," and that they had 'got down to implementation of the program of the ITght." Soyiiz 14, launched July 3, was the most recent Soviet space mission, It ended safcK' July 19 when cosmonauts Pavel Popovich and Yuri Ai-lyukhin made a soft landinj: near Dzhezhazgjii in central Asia. to Tage 6A, Col. 1 i HE ADDED THAT co-education has brought some problems 'ft to the prison, but they are much lems, problems of interrelationships between men and women.

If nothing else, this being the most humane way to treat people is sufficient reason for it." I TROOPS START LEAVING i Portiiffal Ends Guinea Rule HOW YOU VOTED NO. percent. COMMENTS: "Women's lib and gay lib are producing enough totally messed-up people as it is" "I think boys should be boys and girls should be girls" "Pretty soon they will have Barbie Doll kits for boys, too." YES, 48.4 percent. COMMENTS: "A child should be able foract normally" "It's about time children aren't just stereotypes" "It's the individual child not the sex" "My brother and I used to swap toys when we were kids." The Massachusetts Correctional Institution at. a rn-ingham resembles a campus.

Four brick dormitory buildings, two for men and two for women, are grouped around a quadrangle. inmates, called residents, have private rooms, which they are free to decorate. A chain link fence is the only to freedom, and prison guards, mostly unarmed and wearing civilian clothes, mingle with the W) men and CO women inmates. Most of the male inmates are only a few months away from parole and go each day to work or education release programs. Women are incarcerated at Framingham for all types of violent crimes, Amusements 12-I3A Ann Landers 3R Billy Graham' 14C Bridge 1 IC Business News 4-KB Classified 5 IOC Comics 11 13C Crossword Vu.Ae 1 IC Death Notices 5C Earl Wilson ISA Editorials 8A Feature Page 15A Horoscope 1 1C Movie Guide 12 13C Names and Faces I4C Obituaries 5C Opi'iion 9A Sports 1-4C Slock Market' 5-8B Television 10A Women's Pages the rebels to distinguish it from the nearby Republic of Guinea.

The Portuguese government that took power in an April 25 coup has also promised independence to Mozambique and Angola. Angola's is to come some time after 1976. Diplomats in Lisbon say Mozambique's will come before Angola's. Army officials in Lisbon said a dozen plane loads of troops had been airlifted home and by the end of the week about 10,000 soldiers will have left Guinea Uissau. The agreement provides that Portugal will withdraw all its troops from the territory by Oct.

31. Lisbon kept about 15,000 Portuguese TOMORROW'S QUESTION At the UN World Population Conference U.S. delegate Caspar Weinberger called on all nations to strive toward a population growth rate of two children per family by the year 2000. Would you support such a plan? ALGIERS (UPI) Portugal granted independence to its territory of Guinea effective Sept. 10 aiW started bringing home its troops Monday.

The action ends five centuries of Portuguese rule of part of the West's lasl remaining colonial empire. Portuguese Foreign Minister Mario Soares and Pedro vice-minister for defense of the African Party for the Independence if Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands (PAIGC), signed the historic agreement in Algiers' Palace of the People. THE AGREEMENT ended 13 years of PAIGC-Ied civil war in Guinea, now to be called Guinea Bissau, the name given it by To vote YES Call 961-3211 Please turn Please turn to Page 6A, Col. I 9 ml i i i SI.

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