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Show " m 9 . r-- i, ) rr - . r r f r v- - it p v ' - v ,v j- - .r ' ' wmm mm m Wm m m w w J-- - e rf ej m w .'.A,, P"" --" " - , IGA Hie Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, April 22, 1962 Berlin Red, West Guns Roar Army Reveals Shift hi Majors Duties - BERLIN; April 21 (UPI) West Berlin and Communist police fought a gun battle across the border Saturday in full view of a group of tourists visiting the divided dty on the Easter weekend. the allegation and called Roberta a crackpot" WASHINGTON, April 21 Arch E. Robrvt aj. was told by the army last Ser tember that he had dlsqrali fied himself for informatlor duty because of Activities o behalf of rightwing former MaJ. Gen. Edwin A. Walker, It Was learned Sunday. ROBERTS WAS then chief of the civil liaison section of the U. S. army information office in New York. He had formerly served as a special aide to Walker when the general was com manding the 24th infantry com bat division in Germany. THE MAJOR has'now been suspended from military duty and confined to his post at Ft Lee, Va., pending investigation of a speech he made Thursday before the Daughters of the American Revolution here. He attributed a communist to Mayor Sam background Yorty of Los Angeles and leftist leanings to Assistant Secretary of State G. Mennen Williams who is out of the country. Yorty vehemently denied (UPI)-M- The army made clear that the arlier action against Roberts loes not figure In the current nquiry by Army Secretary El-- . is J. Stahr Jr. NO ONE WAS injured although the Communists fired two machine gun bursts across the border, and West Berlin police replied with 10 carbine shots. The shooting brought quick reinforcements to the border from both sides. Saturday night about 50 French gendarmes and West German police backed up by three armored cars faced 50 East German border guards on the walled-of- f Bemauer Strasse. ROBERTS WAS reassigned without prejudice" from his New York post, and was given duty as q medical supply officer at Ft Lee. The phrase, without prejudice," meant that nothing Injurious was placed in his permanent service record. BUT THE ARMY said Satur-da- y c because of personal actions which placed him at e with established positions of the department of the army." He was told that, although he had every right to entertain personal viewpoints, he had pressed them In such a manner that continuation in an information assignment was no longer appropriate," the army said. vac-ianc- Deputy Welfare Commit sloner Philip Sokol said the action was a Southerners very cruel thing to do. ' The Boyds, with their five girls and three boys tagging behind them, got off the bus at the Port Authority Bus Terminal shortly after 7 a.m. They were met by four officials of the Travelers Aid Society of New York, as well as by representatives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Urban League. MRS. W. MAHI.OX Dicker-son- , vice president of the Travelers Aid Society, disclosed the job offers. She said that one was for an assistant janitor In a Roman Catholic Church, one from a paint concern and another from a restaurant Boyd, who is 41 years old. was from lack of sleep. The children, weary and silent amid the hubbub surrounding their arrival, range in ages from 3 to 12 years. red-eye- Speaking of the ritiicns Council, Boyd said: earlier Reuters News Agency MOSCOW, April 21 A cow." THE FRIEND said: I told him that I had been constantly telephoned by newspapermen from all over the world. 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THEY WERE AMONG 241 persons taken Into custody by police in bitter street clashes Friday night Police charged into thousands of rioters with tear gas and armored vehicles after a government opposition political group, the Center Union, defied a government ban on a public meeting to protest last Octobers election returns. IN THE NEARLY FIVE hours of rioting, 78 policemen and 71 demonstrators were injured. Seven demonstrators and 17 policemen are in hospitals. Athens Police Chief Evanghelos Karabetsos said there was no further trouble Saturday and that police and army units were taken off an emergency alert Freed Suspect Admits: ..(CUT) A I Enjoyed Killing Him By Associated Pres on May 29, sentenced to be hanged and again convicted sentenced to and 1961, again Vanthe set was then free, This time he was death couver Sun said Saturday. freed on appeal. THE SUN SAID In a copyThroughout his trials, righted story that Charles Heathman contended he was Murral Heathman signed a innocent statement Friday afternoon The Sun said Heathman about the slaying of Donald first told Mrs. Simma Holt, a Ottley of Vernon, B.C, on Sun reporter, about the slayLabor Day, 1960. ing. Heathman was quoted as saying In the statement to the newspaper: I enjoyed killing him. I prolonged it as long as I Workers Rescue Miner Alive, Find One Body If youve sold your home you can convert your contract to cash through a special service available at Prudential Federal Savingsr For complete ' an contract, information phone Mr. Rieben at HUnter or visit him at Prudential Federal Savings branch office home loan headquarters, 33rd South and State Sts., Salt Lake City. -, at through large volume, fast 1960, AXELRAD'S turn-ov- er and special factory purchases and discounts! 255 So. State EM Free Service free Delivery 4-65- 01 Easiest Terms fimlJlw' Af f W mii JVlyj French Read Charges to Jailed Salan By Associated Press PARIS, April 21 Gen. Raoul Salan, imprisoned chief of the European secret army, was formally jaccused Saturday of attacking the authority of the state in his campaign to keep Algeria French. Conviction on the charge carries the death penalty. The charge was read to Sa- lan In the stocky prison celL Prison officials said Salan, still wearing his black moustache and black-dyehair, appeared relaxed as examining magistrate Guy Curcol read the complaint d Under French law, a prismust be formally charged within 48 hours of oner arrest Earlier, Salan had been pictured as resigned, fired, seemKIRKLAND LAKE, ONT., ingly without hope, as he told Rescue workers police Interrogators his arrest April 21 everything brought out alive Saturday a was Inevitable miner trapped since Wednes- was collapsing around us." day in the Macassa Gold Mine, THE GOVERNMENT anbut a fellow miner was found nounced that Salans wife and dead. daughter, arrested with him in Russel Baskin, 34, was Algiers, were en route by found alive in a tunnel at plane from Algiers to Fresnes the 4.200 level Friday and prison in Paris. brought out Saturday. Paul IN ALGIERS His condition was described Gardy declared he had succeedas critical. ed Salan as head of the secret Later the workers found army. Gardy has been secret Ryszard Witchzak, 38, buried army commander In Western By Associated Pres ' by a rockfall. Algeria. Pilots Wife Recovering From Sleep Pill Overdose U2 cn She Is to undergo further diagnostic tests In the next several days. Dr. G. E. Schreiner of the Georgetown Hospital staff said the cause of her condition is still being studied. WASHINGTON POLICE ducted. said Friday that they had been THE 27 YEAR OLD wife of given reports saying Mrs. U2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers Powers had swallowed about was taken to the hospital Fri- 28 nembutal tablets, a barbiturate used as a sedative. day. Police said she swallowed The 7th Police Precinct about 28 sleeping pills. which handled the report FriA hospital spokesman said day, said Saturday that as far Mrs. Powers was respondingas they were concerned their "-and had eaten break- connection with Mrs. Powers fast and lunch. ended Friday." WASHINGTON. April 21 (UPI) Georgetown Hospital reported Saturday that Mrs. Francis Gary Powers seems satisfactory" but would remain hospitalized for several days while more tests are con- PARK FREE SHOP in any of the nearby lots MONDAYS VE VALIDATE AND FRIDAYS Ws tarry our own credit contracts, you deal with usl ft vfH 255 South State iti ifft iffi Phone EM TILL 01 I Contracts Salt Lake's largest downtown furniture store, after being convicted VANCOUVER, B.C., April 21 in a lower court A man has admitted killing He appealed, and a new a newsboy for was ordered. He was trial whose murder he was twice . DIIIIlimiK Gash for You Always Save More , State. Minn., Saturday was named speaker at Gonzaga Universitys 75th anniversary commencement here. The senior surgeon of the Mayo clinic also will be awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree during the ceremony May 27. ex-Ge- We'll Go Anywhere . . . Gall All A Russian friend of defected British diplomat Guy Burgess could . . ." said Saturday Burgess is conStaff Inspector Dan Brown valescing on the Black -- Sea coast and has no plans to re- of the Vancouver police said turn to Moscow for at least after the newspaper account appeared that a warrant had three weeks. been Issued for Heathmans The Russian friend said arrest. Burgess Is "somewhat ill" IN VICTORIA, the provinbut has been doing a little cial capital. Atty. Gen. Robert work. Bonner said a study of the Warrants have been issued Heathman statement might In London for the arrest of provide a basis for new Burgess and fellow diplomat charges. Donald MaeLean who defected Heathman was acquitted of to Russia 11 years ago. murder in the Ottley boys Earlier this week MaeLean death by a 32 decision of was reported In Moscow but the British Columbia Court of on Oct 31, 196L Burgess whereabouts were Appeals unknown. d He had first been to hang on Dec. 21, The accordion playing Russian friend of Burgess, questioned In Burgess two-rooapartment, said the former British diplomat had telephoned from Yalta Fridav to ask How things are in Mos- They treated me fine and told us we had nothing to worry about. They made everything convenient for us. He said he had been unem ployed for about a year and that welfare officials had cut off the familys $155 monthly aid last Dec. 16, when a physician said he was well and able to work. AH hotels and lodging ' houses in West Berlin vers WEST BERLIN police filled. moved back scores of tourists Many of the visitors who had watched the exchange into private homes and' barred the area in the to were which of the sector made, available a French city hundreds more who were tour- the request of West Berlin wall Sating the dty officials. urday. Solid lines of. West German, An estimated 100,000 West automobiles moved slowly and foreigners Germans two available enthe through jammed into West Berlin for try points Into East Berlin for the Easter weekend. a few hours reunion with Authorities called the In- friends and relatives trapped flux a demonstration of sol- behind the walk idarity with the encircled city. By Associated Press antigovem-men- t ATHENS, GREECE, April 21 Forty-fou- r demonstrators, 19 of them described as extreme leftists, will be brought to trial next week on charges of rowdy behavior, it was announced Saturday. g Ill Turncoat Recovering, Red Pal Says d posing forces continued to face each other across the border. 44 to Face Trials For Athens Riot N.Y. Lucky for 10 Negros Trip North Wins 3 Job Offers weak-knee- The newspaper Die Welt" To Honor Dr. Mayo The road and sidewalk there are In West Berlin said the travel flood was a SPOKANE, Wash., April 21 and Hie houses on the east referendum, an answer" by (A) Famed surgeon Dr. West Germans and Berliners Charles W. Mayo, Rochester, are. across the border. that he was told at the me that he was being trans-?rre- ROBERTS WAS then being credited by members of the John Birch society with spearcamheading a letter-writinpaign on behalf of Walker, who had been removed from on his command charges he attempted to influence the votes of his troops. He also was accused of, but not charged with, making derogatory remarks about promic New York Times Service nent Americans, including forNEW YORK, April 21 An mer Presidents Truman and unemployed Negro longshore- Eisenhower. man arrived from New Orleans THE ARMY SAID Roberts with his wife and eight chil- had associated himself with dren Saturday and found three criticism of the official action of the army in admonishing jobs offers waiting for him. Gen. Walker." the for warm He had praise The latter subsequently reNew Orleans segregationist and is now a candidate signed Citizens Council that had fi- for the Democratic gubernato nanced the familys trip torial nomination in Texas. New York so that he could look THERE WAS NO indication for work. that the army will Saturday THEY ARE wonderful," act soon to bring charges asked when said Louis Boyd Roberts because of the against about the group that had paid DAR It was delivered bus tickets worth on anspeech. for one-waimpromptu basis after more than $200 arid had given the army had refused to aphim $50 to buy food during the a written speech he had prove 42 hour journey. submitted for clearance. S. Edward Dr. However, Lewis, executive director of the Urhan League of greater New York, termed the familys trip here "a very vicious trick on the part of the White Citizens Council designed to embarrass the North." were becoming By the time the reinforce- to fears they in their stand ments arrived the shooting had stopped, and there was no fur- against Communist pressure ' ther trouble although the op- on the city. x 9 p.m. |