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Show THE HERALD, Provo, Utah—Page 7 Wednesday, December22, 1971 Santa Claus Visit Ends in Killings And Bombs BELFAST, Northern Ireland (UPI)—Three gunmen the army said were Irish Republican Army (IRA) members disguised seme explosives as a television set today and bombed an electrical store surrounded by troops and roadblocks within sight of city hall. An army spokesmen said the blast from the bomb at the wholesale electrical store of J. C, Holland, Lt. in Bedford Street caused no casualties but scattered broken glass and debris over a 100-yard area. The gunmen carried the box into the center of the city in which roadblocks guard all main thoroughfares and British Most Of Descendant of ‘Bounty’ Bank Loot Mutineers Succumbs Unrecovered WINDSOR, Ont. (UPI)—Two GLENDALE, Calif. (UPI)— Frederick Martin Christian, fifth generation descendant of the leader of the Mutiny on the Bounty, has died on Pitcairn Island. The island, a speck in the South Pacific, is populated by the descendants of the mu- of seven bandits involved in the $1,129,000 weekend holdup of a Windsor bank remained at large today and most of the moneystolen still has not been recovered, Two men and three women were arrested and approximately $181,000 seized Tuesday in Toronto. ‘The five were charged with possession of stolen goods and were to be brought here today BANGKOK (UPI)—Comedian or Thursday to be charged with Bob Hope said today he and his conspiracy to commit armed Christmas show troupe were robbery,police said. disappointed they had missed One of the men arrested, their first show in eight years— William Ferguson, 48, of a booking on the USS Coral Montreal, was described by Sea. Poor weather prevented the Windsor Police Chief Gordon Preston as the ringleaderof the (See earlier story P. 19. gang which pulled off the 12minute holdup of the main troupe from being lifted by Windsor branch of the Royal helicopter to the deck of the Bank on Canada Saturday. carrier from Da Nang. Two other men, possibly in The troupe stays overnight in possession of the remaining Bangkok and makes ily $948,000 in cash, remained at shuttle flights from here to ia large. entertain American GI’s i South Vietnam. “We phoned the Coral Sea from Da Nang,” Hope said. “They told us there were about 4,000 kids hanging on the superstructure waiting for us. It kind of makes you sad.” The troupe has a day of rest scheduled for Thursday and will stage another show in Vietnam PORT ISABEL, Tex. (UPI)— Friday. Weather Nixes Bob Hope Show Hijacking Attempt Prevented tineers and their Polynesian wives. The death of Christian, the island patriarch, brings the population to 91. headquarters here are among Bounty in a revolt against the , STARTS FRIDAY when Fitzpatrick's a contract agreement between DeathToll In Blast Shakedown At Prison Proves ports, “The only tool left in the event we cannot get the parties to settle would be legislation,” said the Nixon administration official. Negotiaung teams for the PMA and the 15,000-member International Longshoremen hamburgers} and Warehousemen's Union met Quite Ordinary for with Counts during the morning West ( strike resumes, Congress should be called back into emergency session $1 00 and asked to “live up to its responsivility to protect the publicinterest.”” Thursday Big quarter-pound burgers POINT OF THE MOUNTAIN (UPI)— Sheriff's deputies and Salt Lake County attorney's in- bc vestigators staged a surprise “shakedown” at the Utah State Prison's maximum security unit Tuesday and reported finding nothing extraordinary. ae regular price Ps a, Show 7:15 p.m. : 49each. Thenrice onlots of 3 only Director of Corrections Ernest Wright said the search was made because of accusations that lax surveillance had allowed a stockpile of contrabana PARIS (UPI)—The death toll items to build up. in Tuesday’s explosion that He said the search of the 39shattered the interior of a 13story apartment building in cell unit came up with metal Paris rose to 12 today. bars, a butter knife, scissors, a lock, a spoon, a large screw(Tuesday reports placed it at 18) driver and “A jug of Christmas brew.” Investigators blamed the blast Warden John W. Turner said on a faulty gas heating system in the circular tower building county personel made the which was the pride of Paris. search “because we wanted Seven persons were killed in an outside agency involved in the explosion at suburban view of charges and counter Argenteuil, northwest of Paris. charges which are being made Hospital authorities reported about the prison.” five more died later of injuries. County Attorney Carl NemelForty-two persons werelisted ka has charged that sheriff's in serious condition from officers werenotcalled in to ininjuries. vestigate a recent stabbing. It was the eighth explosion of its kind this year in the 18 It was announced Tuesday month-old building. One of the thatoff-duty deputies, paid from dead was an 18month-old boy. state funds, will work at the prison to downcutinvestigations Another was a fireman. Since January, 29 persons of any criminal activity, during evehave been killed in explosions especially stemming from faulty gas or ning hours after inmates have finished their day’s work. oil systems in the building. Set at 12 °° “Yours, Mine & Ours” ROYAL Lehi—Show 7:30 p.m. “Yours, Wine & Ours” oyfRog 1823 Canvon Reed,Pow ame Lala aera a “STAR SPANGLED OPENING PRET AG SSCL Maal ta Paramount Pictures presents AHOWARDW. 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FROM 2:00 P.M. ibbon belle Ls footloose back-alley rover! the “80-day cooling off” provi- Keyissues still to be resolved sion of the Taft-Hartley Act are wages, container jurisdicexpires Christmas Day. tion and a dispute over the The federal injunction was hiring of “steady” men by issued Oct, 6, suspending a 100- shippers. assailant the Pacific Maritime Associa- and then held an afternoon session without the mediator tion and longshoremen before stayed in line for about five minutes before fleeing. Witnesses said he kept yelling, “I'm andlive it Closed Wed. & Thurs. bodies of two alleged hijackers, stood stunned after the stabbing was the mottoof the , Stampers of Oregon passing ships. fog late Tuesday, escorted by a men wasin critical condition killed McDaid, 20, when sol- stern rule of Capt. William uiers searching for suspected Bligh in 1789. The mutineers Irish Republican extremists put Bligh and loyal crewmen— raided a club in the area. An army spokesman gave who survived—over the side in a small boat, sailed the Bounty this account of the incident: to Pitcairn Island and burned McDaid and other suspects in the club were ordered by the troops to stand up against a Their story became the basis wall outside to be searched for for popular books and movies. weapons. McDaid broke from Exceptfor brief visits to New the group and ranoff. Soldiers Zealand and Tahiti, Frederick shouted to him to stop. When Christian spend his entire life he refused an army marksman on Piteairn, where he was an shot him in the head. active leader of the Adventist Church, to which most islanders belong. He was noted as an expert carver of the wooden flying fish the islanders sell as souvenirs to those aboard Coast Guard cutter and guarded by FBI agents, to unload the A female companion of the wounded Murray, 18, a Roman Catholic, when they mistook a the few links between the remote island and the rest of wrapped turkey he was carrythe world. ing for a bomb. An army Tom Christian is now senior spokesman said the youth's living descendant of Fletcher condition was not serious. In the Catholic Ardoyne area Christian, the Royal Navy officer who led the crew of the of the capital troops shot and steamed into port in a heavy killed by crewmen who wrestled shotguns from the bandits. The two bodies were carried from the 61-foot wooden ship in sealed white rubber bags and laid beside each other on the dock. Justice of the Peace Bud Emmons of Brownsville pronounced them dead andordered an autopsy conducted today. Each of the men werehit by a shotgun blastat close range. On Tuesday, Daniel Murray's Christmas turkey nearly cost him hislife. Jack Lavery died trying to save his pub. Geraid McDaid perished in a dash for freedom. The three men were victims of another day of violence in Northern Ireland Tuesday that Hedied last Friday, the day before his 88th birthday, after an illness of several months, according to his son, Tom stampeded Christmas shoppers, Christian, the island radio demolished shops and factories officer. The shortwave reports and left 17 persons injured. to the radio center of The armysaid jittery British Seventh Day Adventist Church soldiers in Belfast shot and The shrimper ‘‘Mr. Tucker’’ CLEVELAND (UPI)—A fath- er of four was stabbed to death SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)— Tuesday night when he argued Federal mediator J. Curtis with a man who attempted to Counts met with both sides in push in front of him while he the West Coast dock dispute waited in line with his children Tuesday and reported “they to see Santa Claus. wanta settlement.” Police said John E. Fitzpa- Before the joint session trick, 35, of Euclid, Ohio, was began, Counts told newsinen stabbed five times with an that Congress may have to eight-inch butcher knife in the impose a settlement if a strike presence of three of his was renewed after the holidays. children. The country “cannotafford to An unidentified 21-year-old let this dispute continue,” the Cleveland man and his wife government's top mediator were being held in connection said with the slaying, police said Counts flew in from WashingOfficers said about 75 persons ton in a last ditch effort to get soldiers carrying weapons patrol principal intersections. not leaving!"” The incident occurred on the They entered the store and gave the staff 18 minutes to 10th floor of Higbee's DepartmentStore. clear out, witnessessaid. Mrs. Fitzpatrick, who is The bombing marked a expecting another child in two resumption of the IRA cammonths, was waiting near the paign to reduce the center of the Northern Ireland’s capital end of the line with her other “to a pile of rubble” by child when her husband was stabbed. Christmas, armysources said. raided a Toronto hotel room and arrested two men and a woman. Two of the seven bandits are still at large, presumably with the majority of the loot. $181,000 IN RECOVERED BILLS, only a small part of the $1,129,000 Windsor, Canada bank robbery,is examined by Toronto police. ‘The money trunk was recovered when police Tragic Death HopeStill Held For Averting New Dock Strike = Ireland: ou = Diamond Give-Away Courtesy of John Rees ’ Diamonds 52 Nosth University Ave. |