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11 Georgia counties
declared disasters
By United Press International
President Nixon has declared
11 north Georgia counties hit
hard by tornadoes this week
national disaster areas and
“others may be added.”
Gov. Jimmy Carter declared
13 counties disaster areas and
petitioned Nixon for the nation
al disaster area designation.
Nixon’s declaration Friday
means the disaster victims, es
timated at 1,000 to 1,500 will be
able to get low-interest govern
ment loans and that local gov-
ernments will be eligible for
federal grants.
Damages have been estimated
at $15.5 million. The death toll
stands at 16, with the latest vic
tim a stillborn infant whose
mother was injured by a tor
ndao.
The relief will be coordinated
by the Federal Disaster Assist
ance Administration. A spokes
man for the FDAA said that in
addition to the 11 counties,
“others may be added.”
Given the national disaster
designation were the counties of
Bartow, Dawson, Fannin, Gil
mer, Haralson, Murray, Pauld
ing, Pickens, Rabun and Whit
field. Carter included Cobb and
Cherokee in his state disaster
area declaration.
The federal spokesman said
teams of FDAA and state dis
aster specialists already are in
specting damaged equipment,
buildings and other local
government properties and that
the FDAA will man offices to
provide assistance and counsel
ing to tornado victims.
State assistance centers have
been set up at Dalton, Calhoun
and Dawsonville.
Carter, who toured the tor
nado - buffeted counties Thurs
day, asked all Georgians to of
fer prayers Sunday for tornado
victims not only in Georgia, but
throughout the country.
“We should also give thanks
that the damage and loss of
life in Georgia were not nearly
so severe as in many other
states,” Carter said in a state
ment.
Georgia Civil Defense officials
said Friday the 16th victim of
the tornadoes was a stillborn
child of Mrs. Harry Steve San
ders, who was injured in Har
alson County. The injured toll
is 109.
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Yankee owner
indicted
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
millionaire principal owner of
the New York Yankees has
been indicted by a federal
grand jury for hatching an
elaborate scheme in which
phony corporate bonus money
was illegally contributed to
political candidates in 1972.
George M. Steinbrenner 111
was indicted Friday by a
federal grand jury for the
scheme in which “trusted”
employes of American Ship
building Corp., of which he is
board chairman, were given
bogus bonuses to contribute
illegally to the campaigns of
President Nixon and others.
Steinbrenner, a youthful busi
ness wizard who bought the
Yankees two years ago, also
was accused of destroying
evidence of the bonuses and
contributions after the Novem
ber, 1972, elections and coerc
ing employes to lie to the FBI
Caldwell
won’t be
prosecuted
ATLANTA (UPI) - The in
vestigation of state Com
missioner Sam Caldwell has
been ended and he will not be
prosecuted for alleged election
law violations, U. S. Attorney
John W. Stokes, Jr., has an
nounced.
Stokes said Friday a decision
not to formally bring charges
against Caldwell had been made
by the criminal fraud division
of the Justice Department.
The state attorney general’s
office earlier had investigated
Caldwell, who had been accused
of soliciting campaign contribu
tions from employes in 1970.
The state agency also dropped
the case.
Stokes said the Justice De
partment will turn over files on
the case to the U.S. Civil Serv
ice Commission, which investi
gates political activities of per
sons working under federal pro
grams to determine that they
are handled correctly.
Caldwell called the decision
“gratifying” and said he would
run for a third term.
Caldwell admitted he had re
ceived contributions in 1970 from
some employes. He denied, how
ever, that the funds were solicit
ed.
Stokes said the decision not to
prosecute came from the chief of
the Justice Department’s crimi
nal fraud section, who said that
similar cases had been turned
over to the civil service com
mission to handle and that the
amounts of money contributed
were relatively small with “no
strong evidence of coercion.”
The investigations of Caldwell
followed accusations made by
former state Labor Department
staffers that Caldwell had so
licited contributions from em
ployes under him.
about the scheme.
He was named in 14 counts
and American Shipbuilding was
named in two counts. If
convicted, he could receive a
maximum of SIIO,OOO in fines
and 55 years in prison. The
company could be fined $15,000.
Say He’s Innocent
Steinbrenner said he was
innocent, and added he had
been offered a deal to plead
guilty to one count of illegal
contributions and avoid indict
ment and trial.
“While the agony of indict
ment and trial will weigh
heavily,” Steinbrenner said, “I
would be less than worthy of
my family and a lot of true and
loyal friends if I did not fight
for what I believe is right. I am
confident that I will be found
innocent of the charges.”
Special Watergate Prosecutor
Leon Jaworski said the indict
ments were returned by a
grand jury in Cleveland, Ohio,
on information developed by a
Watergate grand jury in
Washington.
In all, Nixon allegedly got
$31,200 in corporate funds;
Senate Watergate committee
member Daniel Inouye got
$500; the Senate-House Majority
(Democratic) Dinner received
$10,000; Rep. Charles Mosher,
R-Ohio, got $10,000; the late
Rep. Frank T. Bow, R-Ohio, got
$500; the Democratic Congres
sional Dinner Committee re
ceived $11,000; and Sen. Vance
Hartke, D-Ind., got SI,OOO.
Also Named
Named as unidicted co
conspirators were Robert E.
Bartlone, secretary of Ameri
can Shipbuilding, and Stanley
J. Ijepkowski, the firm’s
treasurer and comptroller.
Steinbrenner, it was alleged,
set up the bogus bonus scheme
whereby employes wrote per
sonal checks for campaign
contributions; destroyed all the
records; and tried to conceal
the plot by instituting a real
bonus program after the
election “to camouflage the
(phony) bonuses that already
had been given.”
Steinbrenner, 43, was charged
with one count of conspiracy;
five counts of illegal campaign
contributions; two counts of
coercing employes to lie to the
FBI; four counts of obstruction
of justice; and two counts of
obstructing a criminal investi
gation.
Corporation Contributions
Campaign contributions by
corporations are illegal. Nine
other firms and eight of their
officials have pleaded guilty to
misdemeanors and been fined
for illegally contributing to
campaigns.
But Friday’s action was the
first felony.
The grand jury charged that
not only did the employes
named pass corporate funds as
their own, but—at the direction
of Steinbrenner—lied to authori
ties that the contributions were
voluntary and that they were in
positions to give such gifts.
Besides the phony bonuses,
the grand jury charged,
Steinbrenner ordered two other
company officers to submit
“fictitious expense vouchers
and make the proceeds availa
ble for contributions to candi
dates in elections.”
The indictment said Steinbr
enner would authorize payment
of the bonuses, direct employes
to submit fictitious expense
vouchers, and instruct Bartlone
what candidates would receive
how much in contributions.
Bartlone then would direct the
employes to make out personal
checks for the contributions.
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Money
testimony |
is denied
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Two
news sources reported today
that part of a SIOO,OOO ¥
campaign contribution from ¥
Howard Hughes to President x
Nixon fund found its way into
the hands of the President’s
personal secretary Rosemary
Woods, and his brother, F.
Donald Nixon.
The Washington Post and Les $
Whitten, an associate of colum
nist Jack Anderson, said they
learned that Herbert Kahn
bach, Nixon’s former personal
attorney, had given testimony ¥
to this effect to both the Senate ¥
Watergate Committee and the
Watergate special prosecutor’s x
office. :¥
Both said Kalmbach told
the committee and the prosecu- ¥
tor’s office he had been told by ¥
Bebe Rebozo, Nixon’s close
personal friend who obtained
the money from Hughes, that x
part of the money had either ¥
been loaned or given to
Rosemary Woods, Nixon’s per- ¥
sonal secretary for 20 years,
and the President’s brother, F.
Donald Nixon.
Report Not True
However, the Post quoted ¥
attorneys for both Rebozo and ¥
Miss Woods as saying the ¥
report was not true.
The Post said Rebozo’s x
attorney, William S. Frates, : ¥
had been in contact with his
client concerning the testimony *
and Rebozo “flatly denys this |
story.” I
“I believe Rebozo. I believe (
that clients can cover up |
things, but I don’t think he g
has,” the Post reported Frates .
said.
Charles Rhyne, attorney for "
Miss Woods, was quoted by the (
newspaper as saying “It's just |
preposterous from what I know g
of her” that she would have .
accepted any money from
Rebozo. "
Two killed <
in shootout j
aboard bus
OAKLAND (UPI) - Two
men were killed Friday as they I
shot it out on a bus in Oakland. ’
They began arguing on the |
bus and then started firing. |
There were about six other I
persons aboard, but none were '
hurt. I
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Police said seven shots were |
fired. Both victims were '
pronounced dead at Providence
Hospital.
Police said the men were |
Rozelle Lewis, 72, and James <
Jackson, 55.
News summary
By United Press International
Israeli planes attack
Israel warplanes went on the attack for the first time
since the 1973 Middle East war today, hitting Syrian
troops on the 26th consecutive day of battle on the Golan ¥
Heights front. Damascus called it an escalation of the ¥:
fighting. The military command in Tel Aviv said all its
planes returned safely from the strikes against ;•;!
infiltrating Syrian troops on Mt. Hermon, part of the 325- :¥
square mile bulge captured from Syria during the October :X
war.
Nixon sets meetings
PARIS —President Nixon scheduled meetings with five
European leaders today and will stay overnight and see
Soviet President Nikolai V. Podgorny on Sunday. Nixon,
who attended a memorial Mass for President Georges $
Pompidou in Notre Dame Cathedral this morning, will see
the leaders of France, Britain, Italy, West Germany and
Denmark today. ¥
World pays tribute
PARIS —France and the world paid their last respects
to President Georges Pompidou today in a memorial
service at Notre Dame cathedral attended by President $
Nixon and 60 other international leaders. ¥
Did he agree too quickly? §
WASHINGTON — President Nixon may have made a
mistake in asking other politicians —members of a ¥
congressional commmittee —to pass judgment on his X
income taxes, the committee chairman suggests. In a X
television interview taped for broadcast Friday, Sen.
Russell B. Long, D-La., who heads the Joint Committee on ¥
Internal Taxation, also hinted that Nixon might not have ¥
had to pay as much in back taxes if he had only waited for X
the committee’s final report.
United strike averted
WASHINGTON —United Air Lines and union £
mechanics reached agreement today on a new contract, ¥
beating a strike deadline by less than one hour. A x
company spokesman said, “United Air Lines will operate
normal schedules today following an agreement which
was reached early this morning between United and the ¥;
International Association of Mechanics and Aerospace ¥:
Workers covering a new contract.” The contract had
scheduled to expire at 6 a.m. EDT. ¥
Ship heads for home
HAMILTON, Bermuda —The luxury liner Queen
Elizabeth 2 slowly headed toward Bermuda today for ¥
repairs to her boilers, which broke down at the start of a ¥
cruise and has led to cancelation of an Easter voyage. A ¥
spokesman for Cunard, owner of the ship, said the line x
hoped repairs could be finished in time for the QE2 to sail
to New York to begin the first west-east Atlantic crossing
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