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- Griffin Daily News Tuesday, August 16,1977 Page 8 Wife smuggled out Kappler BONN, West Germany (AP) — The West German govern ment may have to refuse Italy’s request to hand over an escaped Nazi war criminal because the constitution forbids extradition of German nationals, the Justice Ministry said today. The Federal Criminal Office in Wiesbaden issued a nation wide police alert for Herbert Kappler, the 70-year-old former SS colonel who headed the Ges tapo in Rome and ordered the Ardeatine Caves massacre of 335 Italians in 1944. Kappler, reduced to 105 pounds by terminal cancer, was smuggled out of a Rome mili tary hospital in a big suitcase by his wife early Monday, the Italian government said. He was serving a life sentence. A West German government spokesman on Monday said that Kappler’s 54-year-old wife telephoned German officials that her husband was in West Germany. The Italian govern ment said it was asking West Germany to extradite him. But a Justice Ministry official said that the German con stitution prohibits extradition of a German national wanted for crimes abroad. He said his ministry had not been asked yet for a ruling on Kappler’s case. But he added: “The constitution applies to ev erybody. Whoever is a German may not be extradited.” The Italian government had rejected requests from Kappler to die in Germany. Italian offi cials said Mrs. Kappler, on one of her regular visits to her hus- GOODE NICHOLS Furniture Co. Home of BEAUTYREST MATTRESS & BOX SPRINGS World’s largest-selling aluminum term sheet now even better. TWIN-RIB+PU7S A ▲ The big "PLUS” is the extra metal inthenewside-lapi Improved engineering design provides a stronger, tighter, more leak-resistant side-lap. New Twin-Rib Plus is easier to align and nail, 66 percent lightebthan galvanized, and competitive in price. 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Among those executed were 70 Jews, and Italian Jewish groups joined Partisan veterans in demanding an explanation for the escape. “The government said secur ity was so tight that you couldn’t even sneak out a pack of cigarettes.... Now we learn that a trunk containing a war criminal left through the front door,” said Jewish leader Fer nando Pipemo. Several hundred Roman Jews held an outdoor service in front of a memorial plaque listing the victims of the massacre. No ban on corn ATLANTA (AP) - Reports that sales of Georgia com have been embargoed because of a toxic agent In some damaged com are false, Tommy Irvin, state commissioner of agricul ture, said Monday. “We have expressed concern over the high incidence of af latoxin in com samples tested in south Georgia, but whether or not a grain buyer wishes to purchase Georgia com is a per sonal matter with the buyer," Irvin said in a statement. The toxic agent is caused by fungus or mold which is ap pearing in com damaged by the long summer drought. Irvin said last week the fun gus is extremely toxic to live stock and other farm animals. However, he said, the danger of aflatoxin transmission to hu mans through meat or eggs is unlikely. so Un.il ■ gu.es stsow imperatives t SERVICE FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA—Partly cloudy and warm through Wednesday with chance of afternoon and evening thundershowers. Low tonight around 70, high Wednesday in upper 80s. 10-year-old boy hangs himself By MARC ROSENWASSER Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Apart ment 6J at 580 Castle Hill Ave nue in the Bronx was George Curet’s home, his cage and ulti mately the site he chose for his self-destruction. He was 10. Hour after hour, day after day, George Curet was left ir the apartment to tend to his 6- year-old brother, Bruce. Their mother and two older brothers worked. Their father did not live with them. All this meant that the two boys idled away their hours in side, while other children from the 12-story project played out side. A resident of the building de scribed it as “run-down” but “the place to come to from burnt-out buildings.” It was in that setting that George Curet lived and George Curet died. “This year, he didn’t come down a lot. His mother wouldn’t let him come down,” said Robert Alvarado, 14, who described himself and his 10- year-old brother Robby as George’s only friends in the building. “The only time he ever came down was to ride his bicycle. But he only did that a couple of times a year. His older brothers would never take him any where. “He was a quiet kid,” Alva rado said. “He didn’t like to mess around. And besides, he always had to take care of his brother.” Prince to visit LONDON (AP) - A coast-to coast visit in October by Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, will include a stop in Atlanta, Buckingham Palace said Monday. Other cities to be visited by the Prince of Wales are Chi cago, Cleveland, St. Louis, Charleston, S.C., Houston, Los Angeles and San Francisco. “The official visit is in re sponse to many long-standing invitations which Prince Charles is now able to take up,” a palace spokesman said. His mother wasn’t always happy with the way George handled Bruce. The younger boy would often lose things or else cry to his mother that his older brother had mistreated him. George would be blamed — and sometimes yelled at or maybe hit. That, at least, is the version Robert Alvarado tells. George wouldn’t talk about it — not even to his few friends, in cluding Alvarado. “I never heard him say noth ing," the youth admitted. Typically, the two brothers were alone in the apartment Monday morning when tele phone company worker ♦DoesYour Old Range Wiste Energy And Need Replacing? 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Terms are ava^a^^e on purchases. yfy' * Atlanta Gas Light Company • « McKinley Alston arrived to in stall a phone. But George Cu ret’s patience and hopes had run out. “Is your mother home?” Al ston asked. “No, just my brother,” the young boy said. “But he’s hanging.” Alston found George hanging from a closet door, a belt tied around his neck, a chair tipped over beneath him. “A definite suicide,” a police spokesman said. Bruce told police his older brother had asked him to kick the chair out from under him. When he refused, George kicked the chair out for himself. No guilt in report on Bert Lance ATLANTA (AP) - A report on federal budget director Bert Lance’s financial dealings is to be delivered to a Senate com mittee this week, and contains no findings of guilt or in nocence, it was reported today. The Atlanta Constitution, quoting sources close to the in vestigation, said the report by the Office of the Comptroller General would be given to the Senate Committee on Govern mental Affairs on Wednesday or Thursday. The sources quoted by the newspaper said the report would be only a summary of findings, and would not recom mend prosecution. A spokesman for the comp IX7I Wednesday Is U DOUBLE S&H Green Stamp Day In Spalding Square Shopping Center IWe Gladly Redeem o^l U.S.Govt. Food Coupons |ssms| troller general’s office in Wash ington declined to comment. The Constitution also report ed that Tom Mitchell, the trustee handling the sale of Lance’s stock in the National Bank of Georgia, said Lance would not step down because of the investigation. Lance, director of the Office of Management and Budget, “feels there has not been any violation of the law,” Mitchell said in an interview. “I don’t anticipate his resigning. I’m still going to sell his stock.” The comptroller general’s in vestigation into Lance’s deal ings involve possible con nections between loans from New York and Chicago banks made to Lance and deposits in the National Bank of Georgia, which Lance headed, made with those same banks. The controversy began after Lance agreed to dispose of his 200,767 NBG shares — or about 16 per cent of the bank’s 1.2 million shares —by Dec. 31. The value of the stock dropped, and there were esti mates that Lance could lose up to $1.6 million at the stock’s current market value. The Constitution reported to day that Ole C. Krarup, a spokesman for David N. Smith, one of the persons negotiating for the purchase of Lance’s stock, said talks cannot resume until “everybody puts the deal in Washington to rest.”
