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54 i.m. SO ON GUARD FOR 144 YEARS Vol. 145 No. 35 Sunday, June 8, 1975 BIZARRE COPTER PLOT FLOPS Con Captured After Daring Jailbreak IMG. APROX.

20 MILES Hijacker, Accomplice Still Being Sought 6 CAPTURED IN BAB. AT LESLIE BY STATE POUCE 8 1 -J TO LANS MIS? VON 'At PATTDN, IN YELLOW VW, MISS HILL, IN BLUE MUSTAN6, AND MDS. WOODBURY IN RED-ORANGE SUBARU HEAP FDR MEETING IN LANSING, tvESEL FOUR. CARS dp Kl 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. 7 MRS.

CONN ARRESTED HERE IN, AFTER LETTING REMUN6 OFT IM FIELD, DROVE AROUND IN CIRCLE AS DECOY WAITING AT LANDING SITE, PEMLING IS PICKED UP BY MRS. CONN IN IUACK BED PLYMOUTH I've been unable to work for three years due to polio. My ex-wife and I agreed long ago that I would no longer pay child support for our adopted son, who is in her custody. Wayne County Friend of the Court won't accept this fact, though, and keeps dragging me into court over $3,000 I'm supposed to owe. Now they're threatening jail.

Please help me. R.S., Detroit. You're out from under $3,000 threat 'and any future payments. After Action Line explained situation to Wayne County Circuit Court Judge James N. Canham, he set up special interview with you and ex-wife.

Review of case resulted in waiving all past support payments, plus terminating any future obligations. Whole mess could've been avoided if you and wife had entered legal amendment to divorce settlement. Records showed you owed dough and court was only interested in seeing that it was paid. Problem was further complicated by fact both you and ex-wife receive ADC yours coming from Wayne County and hers from Macomb. Separate county welfare departments were trying to find i (l) HIJACKED HELICOPTER FLIES IN FRm METTETAL AIRPORT IN PLYMOUTH, PILOT JACKSON HELD AT KNIFEPOINT by Free Press Art Director DICK MAYER AP Photo Onassis Will Says Jackie Settled for $250,000 a Year Dale Otto Remling (left arrives at State Police post in Jackson, in custody of Trooper William Flower, who captured him in a Leslie bar.

Glib Con Man Charmed an Entire Town BY KIRK CHEYFITZ, TOM HENNESSY AND WILLIAM MITCHELL Frae Press Staff Writers JACKSON Dale Otto Remling, the veteran criminal, who staged a bizarre heli-copter escape from the Southern Michigan prison, was captured Saturday in a bar in Leslie, a small town only 10 miles north of the penitentiary. The capture ended one day of freedom, which Remling gained through an elaborate plot, which, police say, he drew up during his two years in Jackson. I AIRBORNE escape from the nation's largest walled prison was supposed to follow a complex plan involving six conspirators, a rowed identity, four getaway cars and a rendezvous at a downtown Lansing motel, the FBI said Saturday. But many of the plan's details went wrong Friday after Remling was whisked away in a hijacked helicopter. And finally, the elaborate plot was foiled as the 46-year-old con man and bad check artist was taken into custody and locked up at Jackson by State police.

Remling wss picked up in Huffies Leslie Bar at about 5 p.m. by Trooper William Flower of the Lansing State Police post. Remling put up no struggle, the trooper said. Flower said he was cruising down Main Street in Leslie when he spotted the escaped convict looking out the window, of a grocery store. Flower watched as Remling crossed the street to the bar and then arrested the man.

Remling's arrest was set up by an informant who told police in Novi where they could find the escapee. Novi Police Chief Lee Begole said the informant was a former cellmate of Remling's at the Jackson prison who is out on parole and living in Novi. The informant and his wife came to the Novi police station at about 2:45 p.m. and told police they had just received a telephone call from Remling, Begole said. Remling demanded that his former buddy drive immediately to Leslie to pick him up, Begole said.

Detective Robert Starnes, of the Novi police, drove the informant to a place near Please turn to Page 12A, Col. 1 Amusements 7-1 ID Ann Landers IOC Books 5-BD Bridge I4F Business News 1-7B Classified 1-J2F Crossword Puzzle 8D Editorials 2D Horoscope ISC Movie Guide 7B Names and Faces 19A Obituaries 9A Outdoors 8E People Page 19A RadioRecords 14F Sports 1-8E Stock Markets 3-fiB TV Late Changes 8A Travel 13-18D Weekend Calendar (ID Women's Pages 1-I3C of the will were disclosed Stelios Papadimitriou, legal the Onassis-owned Springfield based in the Greek port city of will was written by Onassis 1974, during a six-hour flight private jet, the adviser said. It private companies to absorb various far-flung business interests toward financing the non-profit Onassis Foundation. only son of the billionaire shipping died in a plane crash in January Onnssis wrote: "I have received my wife resignation from any to Page ISA, Col. I ATHENS (AP) In a will handwritten during an Acapulco-New York jet flight and signed "with my last kiss, Daddy," Aristotle Onassis left the bulk of his estimated $1 billion estate to his daughter, Christina, and gave $250,000 a year to his widow, the former Jacqueline Kennedy.

But Onassis stipulated that $50,000 of the widow's share must he st aside for her two children, Caroline and John until they reach age 21. Caroline is now 17 and John is 14. Their share will go to their mother after they reach adulthood. THE WILL stated that Mrs. Onassis had agreed not to challenge its provisions.

But it added that if she did challenge and win, she could receive no more than one-eighth of the estate. lons of gas per 700 pounds garbage is relatively simple one. Wallace shovels things like grass clippings, table scraps, leaves, coal, coffee grounds and bowling pins in 800-gallon vat, turns on the fire and waits for heat and pressure to produce gas. Wallace has now teamed up with Austin, Tex. inventor named Lyle Atkins.

Atkins is guy who claims electric current he's been using to run radio for 12 years is produced by Handful of rice, bacteria, nail and strip of copper mixed together in Mason jar. BY DAVID JOHNSTON AND BILL M1CHELMORE Free Press Staff Writers SIDNEY, Mich. It was three years ago this week that a handsome cowboy with an engaging smile that inspired confidence in his honesty rolled into town. A year later he had married the beautiful young daughter of Sidney's richest citizen, won the affection of the 100 residents and written $5,3000 in bad checks. SATURDAY THERE was not a person in town with a bad word to say about Jimmy Mangan, better known to the rest of I entered a Tootsie Roll contest that asked you to guess what player would score the one millionth run in major league baseball.

I picked Bob Watson of the Houston Astros and said he would score it on May 4th, and he did! I can't wait any longer-can you find out what I won? S.B., Oxford. Hope you like bicycling. Action Line called Tootsie Roll company and learned you placed second in contest good for 10-speed racer. Contest drew million entries, 52 of which correctly selected Watson as million run man. Special draw was (3) HELICOPTER FUE5 NORTHLANDS IN FIEU PILOT JACKSON 15 MACEP APE COPTER LANDS INSIDE JACKSON PRISON, PICKS UP PRISONER REM LING Drawing mately 3:45 p.m.

and went directly into the water where it quickly sank. Bill Demorest, 29, owner of Piper's Alley restaurant in Grosse Pointe Farms, was one of several people on a nearby power boat hailed to the scene by onlookers. He dove into the water but was unable to pull the bodies, both strapped in seat belts, from the car in time. In October 197.1, Mrs. Helmle chartered a small private plane at Grosse He Municipal Airport and told pilot Robert R.

Sayers that she wanted the plane so that her three children, ages 10, 9 and 2, could "see the fall colors in the trees." After the plane had been in the air two hours she attacked Sayers with a letter opener, stabbing him several times. Sayers was able to wrestle the letter opener from her and to land the craft. Mrs. Helmle was tried on four charges of rttempted AUSSIE traveler Collin Cran ford on hi treatment in America: "We've been fhonered nith Itindnea." I I SM JACKiON I If cityW JACKSON If The contents Saturday by adviser to Shipping Pireaeus. The 18-page on Jan.

3, aboard his creates two shares in his to go Alexander Alexander, magnate, 1973. Of his widow, from Please turn Mother Drives into Lake, Drowning Herself and Son, 3 the world as Dale Otto Remling, con man extraordinaire who pulled off a daring helicopter escape Friday from inside Jackson Prison. Remling, posing as Manaan, had earlier met James Hansen, owner of a saddle shop, at a horse auction in nearby Crystal, and sn impressed Hansen with his riding skill that. Hansen brought him to Sidney. Remling said he was a wealthy Colorado cattleman and he had the personal docu then held to select $10,000 grand prize winner and only name between you and 10 grand was 10-year-old boy from Lorraine, Ohio.

Man who crossed plate with first run ever in majors was Philadelphia A's Wes Fisler. Landmark tally came in April 22, 1876 game at Boston eventually won by Braves, fi-5. Scoring first run was Fisler's lone claim to baseball fame since he only lasted for year in big leagues. I GRAND way around support payment obligation when Judge Can-ham came to rescue with waiver. Whatever happened to that guy up in Leslie who was trying to make gasoline nut of garbage? Mrs.

B. Kalamazoo. He's still up to his ears in orange peels and coffee grounds. Floyd Wallace, Michigan's answer to Thomas Edison, told Action Line he's got $10 million from backers who would like to see his gas from garbage dream become reality. Wallace claims his theory works, says he's been running lawn mower and car on home-made gas for past 15 years.

Formula netting 10 gal THE QUESTION An Oregon high school has a marriage course where students go through a mock wedding and act out over nine weeks problems that might arise in married life. Do you think a class like this might be useful? To Vote NO Call 961-4422 Dear Readers Action Line editors consider every request you send us. We publish the most interesting and helpful answers. We regret that we cannot answer or acknowledge individual requests. murder in Wayne County Circuit Court and was acquitted of those charges by Circuit Judge Nathan Kaufman.

Kaufman ordered her committed to the Ypsilanti mental institution. Edward Loomis, an admissions officer at Ypsilanti State Hospital, said Mrs. Helmle was discharged from the institution in December on the basis of the highly controversial Michigan Supreme Court McQuillan decision. Under the September 1974, decision by the state Supreme Court, persons who have been acquitted in criminal trials by reason of insanity must be released unless it can be proved that they are both mentally ill and dangerous to both themselves and ot'iers. Mrs.

Helmle's husband, George, of Roseville, had gone to the Roseville Police Department to notify them that his wife and child were missing at Please turn to Page 12A, Col. 3 A former Ypsilanti State Hospital patient, who in 1973 stabbed the pilot of an airplane she had chartered in an attempt to kill herself and her three children, drove a car into Lake St. Clair Saturday, killing herself and her three-year-old son. Sally Ann Helmle, 3fi. and Charles Helme, 3, were dead-on arrival at Cottage Hospital in Grosse Pointe Farms, after their bodies were recovered from the submerged car.

WITNESSES said the 1973 red Buick Electra carrying the woman and her son veered suddenly off Lakeshore Road near Lakecrest in Grosse Pointe Farms at approxi- U.S. Firm Wins Huge Arms Pact ments to prove it. Rpmling was using the name and identification papers of James L. Mangan of Glenwood Springs, who had lost his wallet in Wichita, in 1951 when he was a hotel bellhop. "Thiis guy has really used me," said the real Mangan, contacted by telephone at his home Saturday.

It was only two years ago that the real Mangan finally found out about the con man who had been misusing his good name for more than two decades. "I found out he was using my credit rating and even had got a dishonorable discharge from the Navy using my name." He said he became suspicious when he received a letter from a stranger who said he was an old Navy buddy. Mangan had never been in the service. At about the same time, Mangan said he learned from a local credit bureau that someone was using his credit rating to buy cattle in Colorado. It was later learned that Remling and his bride from Sidney were at the time living In Rifle, about 18 miles from the Mangan Home.

Mangan, 44, a land appraiser with the U.S. Forest Service, Please turn to Page 12A, Col. 1 A Visitor Has Faith in America HOW YOU VOTED YES, 75.B percent. COMMENTS: "Practice makes perfect" "It would stop a lot of kids who think that early marriage and babies are just a lot of fun" "Kids don't realize the problems that will come with marriage" "There would be less divorce" "It would help them learn about some of the responsibilities that go along with marriage" "At least there won't be as many surprises." NO, 24.4 percent. COMMENTS: "How about a course in spelling?" "Why sure, if they pass give them a marriage license and if they fail give them a divorce certificate" "Schools ought to teach more important courses and not so much of this social stuff" "They won't want to get married after that" "First I'd want to know what kind of problems they'd work out." From AP and UPI BRUSSELS Relgium decided Saturday to buy the American Flfi jet fighter rather than the French Mirage, paving the way for a multi-billion dollar "arms deal of the century" the biggest series of sales in the history of aviation.

Belgium joins Holland, Denmark and Norway to order 306 planes, nearly J1.9 billion worth at $6.1 million each. Beginning in 1979 they will replace the F104g Starfightrr. Additional orders are expected later both from these four countries and from other West European allies. The U.S. Air Force wants at least 650.

With the psychological boost from the European purchase, representative of Please turn to Page 4A, Col. 1 BY JAMES HARPER Free Press Staff Writer "We were reminiscing here," the man said in the cool hazy brightness of the Oregon coast. "It reminds us of home." The accent didn't quite come clear. British? Scottish? "This rocky coast reminds me of our Last Coast Australia." Coilin Crawford like your own Joan and his wife, Audrey, were on the last leg of a two-month odyssey across the American continent, and the first thing they spoke of was the American peopie. "Coming from Australia," he said, "we were thinking these yappity-yappity Yanks would be too bloody busy to talk, and I can't get over how naturally friendly, and genuinely polite they are.

"We've been showered with kindness. We've had complete strangers pick us up at the bus station and take us to the hotel. If I had to leave Australia, to feel at home, and to feel comfortable, I'd have to settle in Well, the New Yorkers were really too rushy. TOMORROW'S QUESTION The rising cost of malpractice insurance has caused doctors across the nation to go on strike. Have the striking doctors lessened your faith in the medical profession? While great issues dominate the headlines, smeller affairs occupy the lives of many- Free Press staff writer James Harper is covering that other beat, on a two-week hus trip all over this land.

He is talking to people, riting their stories, and traveling on. in the Western part of the United States. The informality, and so forth." THEY HAD come to San Diego, gone almost inimediate- Please turn to Page 5A, Col. 1 To Vote YES Call 961-3211.