OCR Text |
Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Saturday, August II, 2 1573 Parents With Missing Sons For Others For Some Waits Over V- - HOUSTON (AP) - For here hun- and in dreds of parents ether parts of the countiy, the series of vicious slayings uncovered since Wednesday has stirred new worry over miss- !' ing sons. The answers, or lack of them, may be some time in coming. By late Friday afternoon, only three of the victims of what police say was a homosexual ring that preyed on young men and boys had been positively identified. Many of the bodies unearthed were decomposed, and police said to confirm the identities would take quite awhile. aut-opsi- For Verne Cobble, the wait is over: his son was one of the two confirmed victims. New Dimension For Mildred Simoneaux, the wait acquired a new dimen- J whose names have been listed as among the possible victims. The Houston Police Depart- ments said Friday it has been beseiged with calls from anxious parents from across the nation since the case broke Wednesday. Many wondered how more than 20 young people could disappear without more public notice. Sizable Number But police say that in a city the size of Houston population 12 million the number of missing juveniles reported is sizable, and most are eventually found. The bureau received 5,223 reports last year and 5,652 in 1971. Capt. R.L. Horton, chief of the bureaus juvenile section, says that of those reports, "99.9 pet cent turned up alive and missing juvenile well. sion. tJk Associated Press Wireohoto for two years and believed to be a mass murder victim in Hoaston. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hilliglest tell newsmen of son David, 13, missing , , "My boy used to play with those two, Mrs. Simoneaux said Friday. You know what that means. missng persons bureau those other few ones who turn up shallow graves or the But theyre the in or someplace that, he said Friday. bayou like And, police say, they have a difficult time assuring worried parents some of wl m, including Vernon Cobble, are critical of the effort made. Same Neighborhood Cobble, 45, said the fact that so many missing boys came from the same neighborhood should have alerted police. "We spent several hundred dollars for private Investigators and the police wouldnt get into it until it got so bad, said Cobble, a supervisor in the post office here. Cobbles son, Charles C. Cobble, 17, and Marty Jones, 17, who had lived with the Cobbles for almost two years, disappeared at the same last July 25. "The day after the night he left he called me and said he was in severe trouble and had to have $1,000, Cobble said. "I told him 1 didnt have it, then tried to question him about it. He said he would IRS Reaches Accord on Claim give me a call later and that was the last I heard cf him. Totally Dependable Cobble said his son was a totally dependable boy, and that he knew something was wrong. The only thing we are thankful is that we found him right away and we didnt have to wait two years like the down the street," he said. For Dorothy Hilligiest, 51, the news that her son David is believed to be among the victims meant her long wait was over. payer instead of using the Mrs. Hilligiests son, like de"jeopardy assessment many of the other suspected mand for immediate payment victims in the mass slaying, by Smith, a close friend of lived in the same neighborPresident Nixon. Elmer hood as The IRS filed the $22.8 milWayne Henley, who police say lion tax lien against Smith, has admitted taking part in former president and chair- the and burials. killings man of Westgate-Califomi- a She said her son frequently IRS 3. The The agreement let stand the Corp., Aug. federal tax claim but bound claimed Smith owed that played with Henleys younger the IRS to proceed as it nor- amount in unpaid taxes and brothers, at the family home just a block down the street. mally would against any tax penalties for 1969. SAN DIEGO, CALIF. (UPI) for the govern-r.eand financier C. Amholt Smith reached a secret agreement Friday to delete a demand by the Internal Revenue Service for immediate payment of $22.8 million. Attorneys nt Mrs. Simoneaux, of Houston, explained that her son Jay, 15 and missing since- - October, was a friend of two youths Body Count in Texas Increases to 23 Continued From Page One iners said two bodies were those of Marty Ray Jones, 18, shot twice in the head, and Charles Cary Cobble, 17, who had been strangled. The bodies were among 17 found Thursday in a Houston boat shed, where officers were led by Henley. Father Makes Identification A third body, found Friday in San Augustine where four bodies had been unearthed, was identified as William Ray Lawrence, 15. His father made the The recovery of three more bodies would make the Houston case the worst mass murder in the nations history. labor contracJuan Corona, a tor, was convicted of the slaying of 25 drifters in 1971 near Yuba City, Calif. Police Lt. Breck Porter said Henley had admitted he and Brooks procured teen age boys for Dean Allen corll. 33, for the past 18 months, sometimes helping him kill and bury those who refused to engage in homosexual sex acts. Porter said Brooks also has given police a statement. He (Corll) would rape them, kill Henley told police he "sweet-talkethem and bring them out here to bury Corll into putting aside his pisthem, Henley said Thursday. Henley tol. Henley said he then used the gun to said Corll gave him and Brooks $5 to $19 kill Corll when the man menaced him for each teen-ag- e boy they brought to again. him. Corll, a Houston Lighting & Power Co. employe, rented the boat storage The grim search for bodies began stall in southwest Houston three years Wednesday when Henley telephoned police at Pasadena, a Houston s' burb, and ago, authorities said. Find 2 More Bodies told them he had shot Corll to death sex party. after an Supervised by police, jail trusties dug Police found Corll, an electrician, through the night and all day Thursday, 17 bodies in the stench-filledead at the home and Henley, another unearthing tin shed. Police probed soft areas of youth and a girl waiting inground around the shed Friday but said side for them. they did not expect to find any more Henley told police a bizarre story of bodies there. how he had brought the other youth and Escorted by Henley, police then drove the girl to Corlls party, where the trio to near Rroaddus Thursday night, where had passed out after sniffing spray paint. they found two more bodies, shrouded in Henley told police that when he plastic sheeting and buried in a wooded awoke, Corll oruered him at gunpoint to ares. Two more were uncovered Friday strip his companions and lash them to morning. two boanls. Police then focused the search on According to police, Henley said Corll High Island, whose sand dunes Henley threatened to kill him unless he engaged said would yield "at least six more in sex with the girl while Corll per- bodies. Police said they planned to have formed homosexual acts on the bound Brooks point out the gravesites at High boy. Island, how ever. d d 'Sanctuaries for Viet Cong Laird Confirms Authorizing Cambodia Bombings New York Times Service CHICAGO Former Secretary of Defense Melvin R. . Laird said Friday he had au- a separate reporting procedure for the Nixon adB52 secret ministrations bombing raids in Cambodia in 1969 but insisted he had not sanctioned the falsification of any Air Force, Navy or Defense Department records. At a news conference at the Drake Hotel here, Laird was asked about a highly classified Pentagon memorandum made thorized public in Washington Thursday that discussed a method of hiding from the press clandestine bombing operations in Cambodia in 1969 and 1970. Eyes Only Memo is now retired. It provided for a force of B52s to strike targets in Cambodia while other B52s attacked normally assigned targets in South Vietnam and Laos. Strikes on these latter The "Eyes Only memorandum, released at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing investigating the falsification of reports, was written by Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, who was then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and who CLIP & SAVE Tribune Telephone Numbers Do yon need information, want sports scores, have a news story or feature you want to talk about? Is your paper missing? Do you want to discuss a classified or display advertisement? HERES WHERE TO CALL Newspaper Delivery Problems, (Weekdays before 10 a.m., Sundays before 524-284- 0 1 p.m.) Convinced of Necessity confirm completely that I 1 recommended the strikes, Laird said of the Cambodian sorties. He added that he was convinced it was necessary to attack the "sanctuaries of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers in order to reduce American casualties. Laird, now the President's counselor for domestic affairs, said several times at the news briefing that it was 1969 when he last saw the memorandum, initialed in his own handwriting and dated Nov. 20, 1969. He rebuffed attempts to have parts of it read to him from the moming newspapers. The operations were conducted in secret more for diplomatic than military reasons, he said, because the Cambodian government had told the State Department it wculd have to condemn them if they were made public. PUIS THE fflEEZER BECAUSE YOU USE IT LESS! Thats typical of Amana-build- mn thoughtfully designed appliances that improve the quality of living. And in keeping with the ZCMI tradition of offering you only the best, we now carry a large and complete selection of Amana appliances. This beautiful refrigerator-freeze- r, for example. Like all Amana products, it's designed for the way you use it. The refrigerator is on the top, because you'll probably open it many more times than you will the freezer. And together they give you r more than 20 cubic feet of storage. Both have doors and up front automatic cold controls that work independently of one another to maintain the right temperatures and prevent power waste. Come in, examine these and other features that make Amana refrigerators industry leaders. Youll find this one in ZCMI Major Appliances, except Valley r".ir. Stor-Mo- (Copyright) FACTORY CLOSEOUTS Samsonite: AIRPLANE the dociment said, will provide a resemblance to normal operations, thereby providing a credible story for replies to press inquiries. The procedure outlined in the memorandum called for the Cambodian raids to be officially recorded in the militarys classified data system as having taken place over South Vietnam. targets, DISCONTINUED COLORS IN REGULAR SILHOUETTE UJGGAGE. ASSORTED COLORS Brauliful MnltM Atq'hne Lu:i"r ' 4 WLES & IRREGiLARS FCTORY fMummmTOTxmxximiiB AMANA I Mnmii?h?J,in''atl0n; freezer on the bottom includes large capacity ice bin warranty n,$ f?r 5 ,ears ,rom date 01 original pur. or r,Mir 01 partI to" de- "rkmansb'P or material under normal us. Sfts 'T1 lor ,eP'cemnt of defective Wrts are be returned through Amanas "ner 15 responsible for local C3,,ae. replacement mljn L'",'1 2 Ja. . Vu?b!r.or p,as,lc par,J "d light bulbs Any ,?ccl(len. misuse, negligence, abuse, warnTy iVcanadT S!,t l.,e,a,lpn hal oid the warranty applies as above e- ml m i.COV,r U,es- Assessments e'Prt' AMANA RtFRICERAII0N. mC AMAIiMMA g r- - ?. UTwmmmxxTWMmiMf : QUALITY t; FACTORY SAMPLES, IRREGULARS, SLIGHT IMPERFECTIONS, IN NO WAY ATFECT WEAR OR USEFULNESS WORLD'S MOST WANTED ATTACHE CASES 22.95 3" DELUXE 32.50 25.95 5" DELUXE 35.00 (SlIGHT IMPERFECTIONS) V TERMS OR LAY AWAY BARGAIN 40 CLOSE-OU- T OFF REG. 50.00 SALE OQ?7 SALT LAKE A7 SUGARH0USE ) tl ZCM COTTONWOOD VALLEY FAIR OGDEN UNIVERSITY I MALL |