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Looters hit
supermarket
in Newark
By NICHOLAS JOLLYMORE
NEWARK, N.J. (UPI) —
Looters wearing swimming
goggles and plastic bags over
their heads cleaned out a fire
gutted and tear gas-filled
supermarket Wednesday during
the fourth day of unrest among
the Puerto Rican community.
The entire 1,400-member po
lice department remained on
alert today.
Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson
promised a full investigation
into the disturbances which
were touched off Sunday when
park police broke up an illegal
dice game at a Puerto Rican
festival.
Eleven persons were arrested
Wednesday near a 6,000-
resident low-income housing
project. Police charged nine of
them with carrying groceries
apparently stolen from a
Foodtown supermarket that
was set afire Monday.
Police said they entered the
market carrying baskets and
shopping carts and wearing
plastic bags and swimming
goggles against tear gas that
had been laid down to
discourage looting.
Heavy looting was reported
at two Foodtown supermarkets,
a Pathmark store and a
restaurant on Seventh Avenue
in an area populated predomi
nantly by Puerto Ricans.
Some 200 residents gathered
near the Foodtown store when
policemen moved in to make
arrests.
One of them who stole bags
of rice, soda and oil from a
supermarket said, “People feel
the cops are just beating on the
Puerto Rican people and
messing around. People feel
like killing the cops and hitting
them with bottles.”
James Cataldi, owner of
Gabriel’s Tavern adjacent to
the Foodtown supermarket,
said he needed police protection
to prevent looting from his
establishment, which was
opened Wednesday after a fire.
Police arrested a man late
Wednesday night for carrying
18 automatic rifles, four single
shot rifles and 10 shot guns in
the trunk of his car.
They said it was not
immediately known what the
suspect, Leroy James, intended
to do with the guns. He was
charged with illegal possession
of weapons and detained at
police headquarters for further
questioning.
Mayor Gibson told a news
conference he did not think the
three days of unrest in two
predominantly Puerto Rican
areas of the city “will destroy
Newark.” But he said it did not
“help trying to get people
working together.”
Joseph P. Lordi, Essex
County prosecutor, told the
Ransom
demand
fizzles
BOSTON (UPI) — A young
man armed with a razor, rusty
nail and ax held an Eastern
Airlines pilot hostage in the
cockpit of a jetliner Wednesday
and demanded SIO,OOO for the
people of Boston’s black ghetto
before he surrendered.
Marshall Collins 111, 20,
Providence, R.1., quietly gave
himself up four hours after
rushing into the cockpit of the
New York-Boston shuttle plane
at Logan International Airport,
the FBI said. He was held on
$250,000 bond.
Witnesses said Collins or
dered 95 fellow passengers off
the early morning New York-to-
Boston flight.
Capt. Lewis E. Whittaker Jr.
was held aboard the DC-9 while
Collins’ demands dwindled from
SIOO,OOO and transportation to
Africa to SIO,OOO for “the poor
in Roxbury.”
Collins kept the nail pressed
against Whittaker’s neck for
two hours, the FBI said, and
the pilot’s face was bloodied by
cuts from the razor.
Collins, who is black, was
reported to have been talked
out of his hijack attempt by a
black FBI agent who used the
plane’s radio, said James O.
Newpher, chief of the FBl’s
Boston office. The agent was
not identified.
news conference a grand jury
would investigate the Sunday
incident. He said some of the
reports of deaths, fires, sniping
and looting which followed had
been exaggerated.
A 10:30 p.m. curfew for
minors remained in effect in
the city, New Jersey’s largest.
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Police foil attempt to steal ‘Stone 9
By ROYAL A. BRIGHTBILL
LONDON (UPI) - Scores of
police foiled an attempt today
to steal the legendary Stone of
Scone, ancient symbol of
Scottish nationalism, from its
resting place in historic West
minster Abbey.
A Scotland Yard spokesman
said three men were captured
at the abbey, one inside and
two outside the church where
Britain’s monarchs have been
crowned since William the
Conqueror nine centuries ago.
The spokesman said the
suspects were taken to the
police station for questioning
following the abortive predawn
break-in at the abbey.
Police sources said the
ancient wooden coronation
chair, which has been used for
nearly 700 years, was damaged
slightly and the 450-pound stone
under the seat “may have been
moved a few inches.”
Police surrounded the build
ing when the three men tripped
a burglar alarm connected with
Scotland Yard and security
forces began a top-to-bottom
search of the building.
The Stone of Scone, a
sandstone block also known as
the Stone of Destiny and
Coronation Stone, was brought
to England from Scotland’s
Scone Palace almost 700 years
ago by King Edward I.
Scottish nationalists have
made several attempts over the
years to recover the stone, once
used to crown Celtic kings. It
was last taken on Christmas
Day in 1950, but was found
seven weeks later in an abbey
in Arbroath, Scotland.
Legend claims the 2-foot by
18-inch stone groans under the
weight of a rightful sovereign,
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but remains silent under a
conqueror.
The block was brought to
Westminister Abbey in 1297 as
a symbol of Scotland’s subjuga
tion to England. It was placed
beneath an oak throne standing
against the back of the abbey’s
altar.
Scottish nationaliss consider
the stone a symbol of their
desire for independence from
England. Police said the man
found inside the abbey had
been living in Scotland in
recent years.
Griffin Daily News Thursday, Septembers, 1974
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Man gets refund from church
MIAMI (UPI) — An unem
ployed electrical worker who
said he hasn’t received the
rewards promised by his
clergyman got an SBOO refund of
his church tithes Wednesday.
Hugh McNatt, 43, had filed
suit against the Allapattah
Baptist Church to recover the
10 per cent tithing he began
three years ago. In return for
the SBOO, he agreed to drop the
lawsuit.
The money was handed over
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by businessman Alton S. Newell
of San Antonio, Tex., a wealthy
inventor who had heard about
the lawsuit and offered his aid
to Pastor Donald Manuel in
helping the church return the
money.
McNatt charged in his suit
that he had donated 10 per cent
of his wealth in response to the
pastor’s promise that “bles
sings, benefits and rewards
would come” from God in
return.