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Robbery ring
suspect arrested
DALTON Ga. (UPI) -
Authorities have arrested a
Georgia man and issued a
national alert for four Tennes
see men believed to be part of
a robbery ring that has
terrorized several prominent
north Georgia families.
A spokesman for the Chat
tanooga police department said
one of those sought, 33-year-old
Tommy Prader of Chattanooga,
was arrested earlier in the
People
By United Press International
Kim II Sung
Korean New Year
HONG KONG (UPI) — North Korean President Kim 11
Sung called on his nation to be fully prepared because the
United States and South Korea “are ceaselessly
manuevering to provoke a new war” in the divided
peninsula.
In his New Year’s Day address, Kim also said the North
Koreans must accelerate the building of socialism in 1976,
give support to their compatriots in South Korea and
strengthen ties with world revolutionary forces.
Papal vacation
VATICAN CITY (UPI) - Pope Paul VI probably will
take a brief vacation in January but his health is not in
question, Vatican sources said Thursday.
The sources said the 78-yearold pontiff has earned a rest
after the rigors of the 1975 Holy Year which ended
Christmas Eve with a heavy hdyday schedule.
They said he would probably suspend his general and
private audiences for a week or two and relax in his
Vatican apartments.
Ends hunger strike
ATLANTA (UPI) — Comedian and civil rights activist
Dick Gregory ended a weeklong hunger strike New Year’s
Day and urged President Ford to guarantee a basic diet
for every American.
Gregory and more than 120 other persons drank orange
juice to end their hunger strike at 12:01 a.m. Thursday.
They had consumed nothing but water since Christmas
Day.
Guarded ceremony
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (UPI) — Under tight security,
Frank Logue was sworn in New Year’s day as the 46th
mayor of New Haven. But authorities first searched a
building for bombs.
City police said a caller reported bombs planted in the
Chapel Sreet Mall, where Logue had scheduled his
reception. A search turned up no bombs.
Farewell, Met
NEW YORK (UPI) — Soprano Dorothy Kirsten made a
farewell appearance at the Metropolitan Opera with a
New Year's Eve gala marking her 30th year with the
company.
Met Board Chairman Langdon Van Norden gave Miss
Kirsten a bracelet on stage at the end of the second act of
“Tosca,” in which she sang the title role.
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week on another robbery
i charge and freed on $2,500.
i The alert was issued Wednes
- day through a national crime
■ computer service for Prader,
i Risto Beckovitch, 27, also of
t Chattanooga, Wendell Allen
Barnes, 27, of Red Bank, Tenn.,
and Bruce Mcßrayer, 42, of
I Tiftonia, Tenn.
I Bernard Arnold Weinthal, 42,
> of Dalton, was arrested
! Wednesday and charged with
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Mummers
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -
An unexpected snow storm
Thursday forced postponement
of the annual New Year’s Day
Mummers parade until Satur
day.
Parade officials met Thurs
day morning and after consult
ing the National Weather
Service decided to postpone the
event.
conspiracy to commit robbery
and possession of stolen goods.
The GBI identified Weinthal as
“the finger man” in the ring.
The Georgia Bureau of
Investigation said the ring
robbed several prominent North
Georgia families. In almost all
of the cases under investiga
tion, the GBI said, gunmen
waited in the victims’ homes
then confronted them with
drawn guns or sprayed them
with mace and bound them.
The GBI said SBO,OOO worth of
expensive jewelry, cash and
other valuables had been taken
in four recent robberies of
prominent Dalton families, in
cluding a textile firm president,
a supply firm executive, and
the president of the Georgia
Retail Merchants Association
who operates a Dalton shopping
center.
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Mother, boy friend held in beating
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI)
— Police are holding a mother
and her boy friend whom they
say battered one of the
woman’s two children to death
Christmas Day and severely
injured the other child.
Mrs. Diane Lamar Mims, 23,
and James Turner, 30, of
Birmingham, were arrested
Tuesday and charged with
murdering 2-year-old Shequita
Denise Lamar and beating
Shequita’s 6-month-old brother,
Anthony DeWayne Mims.
Police said the two children
were apparently severly beaten
and punched on Christmas Day
with a shoe and a belt. Mrs.
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Mims told hospital officials
Shequita was injured when she
had fallen out of her bed and
they didn’t know how the baby
was injured.
The 2-year-old girl died on
Monday in Childrens Hospital.
When police went to the Mims’
residence in the southwest
section of Birmingham, they
found the six-month-old boy
suffering from a broken leg, a
fractured skull and two broken
vertebrae.
The baby was listed in fair
condition in Childrens Hospital.
Turner and Mrs. Mimms were
charged with murder and child
abuse.