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Friday, February 2, 1968 Griffin Daily New#
Lawmen Search For Pair
Who Took Five Hostages
By PAUL DANISH
DENVER (UPl)—Police road
blocks were erected today as
bolstered squads of law enforce
ment officers searched for two
gunmen who fled an attempted
holdup and took five hostages
during a 300-mile flight over
some of the most treacherous
mountain terrain in America.
The hostages were released,
unharmed, at various stages of
the arduous, 10-hour flight for
freedom from Vail to Denver,
police said.
It was the second such
incident in Colorado this week.
US, Russia May Avoid
Costly ABM Arms Race
By DONALD H. MAY
WASHINGTON (UPI) — De
fense Secretary Robert S.
McNamara has raised some
new prospects that the United
States and Russia may avoid a
costly arms race involving
Antiballlstic Missiles (ABM).
In his annual statement to
Congress Thursday on the over
all defense picture, McNamara
reported two U.S. intelligence
assessments of the Soviet
Union, which could be highly
significant if they remain true.
—He said a majority of the
U.S. intelligence community no
longer believes Russia’s “Tal
linn” defense system has “any
significant” antiballistic missile
capability. Instead, he said, it
appears designed against bom
bers and air breathing missiles
operating within the atmos
phere.
—He said the Soviet Union
“Galosh” ABM system is being
built “at a moderate pace”
around Moscow but “no effort
has been made during the last
year to expand that system or
extend it to other cities.”
The Tallinn system, named
for a city in Soviet Estonia
through which it passes, is
being built across the northwest
approaches to the Soviet Union
and in other areas of the
country. There has long been
division among U.S. intelligence
officials on whether it would
become a defense against
bombers or missiles.
McNamara said Galosh
“could provide a limited de
fense of the Moscow area
...(but) could be seriously
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Second Incident In Week
On Monday, a supermarket
bandit was captured after he
took seven persons hostage and
wounded two of them during a
wild, 250-mlle flight from police
across eastern Colorado.
Authorities said they believed
the two men involved in the
escape Thursday were Charles
E. Hardin, 25, and Earl Wayne
Sanders, 21, both of Fort Worth,
Tex. Hardin has been charged
with the slaying of a Fort
Worth tavern owner Dec. 21.
Release Last Two
Denver police were alerted
the gunmen had arrived here
after the last two hostages were
degraded by sophisticated pene
tration aids.”
On Sept. 18, in announcing the
United States will build a $5
billion ABM against possible
light nuclear attack from Red
China into the 19705, McNamara
warned Congress and the
American people against allow
ing the “mad momentum” of
military spending to expand the
anti-China system into a S4O
Vietnam Volunteer
He Waited Months
For 'Port Call*
That Never Came
FT. MCCLELLAN, Ala.
(UPI) — The Army said Thurs
day an Alabama soldier volun
teered for Vietnam service and
then spent 10 months at home
awaiting a “port call” that nev
er came.
What did finally appear at
the Sheffield, Ala., door of Pfc.
Berry A. Moore, 22, were mili
tary policemen who picked up
the soldier Tuesday and con
fined him for 24 hours. Then he
was transferred to a headquart
ers company at Ft. McClellan.
Moore will stay there while
the Army tries to puzzle out
the snafu which caused him to
send a stream of letters and
telegrams asking — in vain—
about his departure date for
Vietnam while he stayed at
home. During that time, he
married and worked with his
father, a plumber.
Lt. Col. Lane Carlson, post in
formation officer, said Moore’s
documents "seem to back up”
his story of a soldier who want
ed to fight for his country, but
ran into a "missing link” in red
tape.
As related by Carlson and
Moore’s relatives, this is his
tale of frustration:
Moore enlisted March 15, 1966,
and went in August to Ger
many. He volunteered there for
duty in Vietnam and returned
home last March 28 with orders
to await a "port call” for ship
ment to Vietnam.
Moore’s orders said he would
get the call within 30 days.
When it didn’t come by the
end of April, Moore contacted
the Florence, Ala., recruiting of
fice. He was told he was not
in an absent without leave
(AWOL) status, but that he
should telegraph for instruc
tions from Oakland Army Base,
Calif.
A telegra msent at the end
of May and a letter sent in ear
ly June brought no reply. He
wrote again in December, and
this time Oakland said a port
call could not be issued for him
because it had no records of
his orders.
He was told to write to the
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released. Dick West and Dick
Jordan were set free and told
not to notify police for 30
minutes.
“We had enough respect for
them to wait 35 minutes,” West
said. “When you see a big black
gun, you do what they te’.l you.”
Investigators said the two
men began their flight after
being surprised early Thursday
in a holdup attempt at the
Manor Vail Lodge, 65 miles
west of Denver.
The gunmen, both armed with
.38-caliber revolvers, forced
Vail Police Chief Ted Holmes,
Jordan, and two lodge employes
billion defense against Russia.
He said such an ABM defense
would be futile because the
Soviets could always add more
offense and overwhelm It.
“Should the Soviets persist in
expanding what now appears to
be a light and modest ABM
deployment into a massive
one,” McNamara said, “we will
be forced to take additional
steps.”
Army Support Services at Ft.
Benjamin Harrison, Ind. He did
so on Jan. 19, and, as a result,
here came the MPs.
New Bill Aimed
At Protecting
US Consumer
WASHINGTON (UPD— Chair
man Warren G. Magnuson, D-
Wash., of the Senate Commerce
Committee today unveiled a
broad new package of legisla
tion aimed at helping protect
the American consumer.
Magnuson, in a speech
prepared for Senate delivery,
said he would push for bills to
guard consumers in fields of
auto insurance, electric power
reliability, radiation hazards,
fish inspection, home improve
ments, cigarette smoking and
other areas.
In an allied development, the
House on a 382 to 4 roll call
vote Thursday passed and
returned to the Senate a stiffer
version of the Johnson adminis
tration’s "truth-in-lending” bill.
The House bill would require
all banks and stores to state
exact interest and customer
charges on an annual basis for
loans and goods bought on
installment plans or risk a fine
and jail sentence. The Senate
approved a milder version last
year.
Magnuson’s proposals were
far-ranging. He recommended:
—Legislation financing a fe
deral study of problems of the
auto insurance industry to
determine need for corrective
measures.
—Legislation to expand feder
al regulation to insure preven
tion of massive power failures
similar to the Northeast black
out of 1965.
—A bill to improve federal
radiation standards. He cited
hazards uncovered in color
television sets, dental equip
ment and other products.
—A measure to expand fish
Inspection programs.
—Legislation to finance a
Federal Trade Commission
crackdown on fly-by-night oper
ators in the home improvement
field who “account for an
estimated consumer loss of
from SSOO million to $1 billion
yearly.”
—lncreasing committee pres
sure against cigarette advertis
ing on programs for youth.
—A bill providing federal
regulation for terms and
disclosure of warranties on all
consumer products.
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and Jordan, manager of an inn
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disturbance call at the lodge.
The police chief was released
seven miles away near 10,603-
foot Vail pass and handcuffed to
a tree.
Threaten Mother Children
The gunmen then fled 100
miles south to Maysville, Colo.,
where they stopped at the home
of Mrs. Norma Farley for three
hours and threatened to take
her and her three young
children along as hostages.
Mrs. Farley said she talked
the men out of an dalso got
them to release Antonio Gurule,
17, and Lee Gonzales, 16, both
of Pavasco, N.M., who work at
the lodge in Vail.
The gunmen then drove to
Bailey, Colo., where they
stopped at West’s business firm,
stole his car and forced him to
accompany them on the trip to
Denver.
Jordan, with the gunmen the
entire time, said no overt
threats were made. “But their
threat was ‘Just do everything
we tell you and everything will
be all right.”
A fifth hostage was taken at
Denver, police said, and his car
stolen before he was released.
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HAZARDOUS CELEBRATION
SINGAPORE (UPI) — Fire
crackers exploded during the
last days of the Asian lunar new
year set 62 fires that burned 115
persons and destroyed 30
homes, police said today.
‘Black Power’ Drive
Begins For Campaign
By HENRY P. LEIFERMANN
ATLANTA (UPI)—Dr. Martin
Luther King begins his dribe to
enlist Black Power militants in
his “massive civil disobedi
ence” campaign next week in
a conference planned for Wash
ington, D.C., with Stokely Car
michael.
The meeting is to be held
during or after the annual mid
winter meeting of the executive
board of King's Southern Chris
tian Leadership Conference,
meeting in Washington Tuesday
and Wednesday.
An exact date and place for
the King - Carmichael confer
ence has not been set, the
Rev. Bernard LaFayette said
Thursday. He is a former field
secretary for the Student Non
violent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC) named last December
by King to take charge of the
Washington program.
The campaign, which King
terms “the Poor People’s Cam
paign,” is planned to begin the
first week of April in Wash
ington.
King plans to arrive in Wash
ington Monday for anti-Vietnam
war demonstrations with the
Clergymen and Laymen Con
cerned Committee of New
York.
The meet in g with Car
michael, who returned last
month after travels including
Cuba, Africa and North Viet
nam, is the first of a series of
conferences King planned with
more militant Negro spokes
men.
King hopes to have the sup
port of all civil rights and
Black Power groups, from
SNCC to the National Urban
League, when he launches the
Washington campaign.
King said last month in de
tailing his campaign that he
wants assurances from the
more militant groups that they
will either Join him in nonvio
lence or stay away from the
campaign.
The Washington campaign
specifics have not been re
vealed by King, but they are
thought to include camp • ins
similar to the “Bonus March
ers” of the Depression, as well
as demonstrations at the White
House, the Pentagon and the
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SCLC spokesmen said Kin*
planned to go into Washington’#
Negro districts next week t«
help his staff of recruiters eiK
list marchers from the city.
Last month, King dispatched
recruiters to 15 cities and si*
states to enlist supporters for
the Washington campaign.
COMMEMORATE MEETING ”
MILAN, Italy (UPl)—New
lyweds Paolo and Amalia
Longoni rented a city trolley
Thursday and drove their
wedding party through the
streets for three hours. Longoni
said he paid sl6 an hour rent to
mark the fact that he met his
bride on a trolley.
ARRESTED AUTOS
PARIS (UPl)—Police said
today they "pinched” 76 illegal
ly parked cars Thursday with a
pinching device on the tires that
prevented the autos from
moving. Owners had to pay $lO
to get the gadgets removed.