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Show Freed POW Begins Journey Home; Probe Promised on DelayedLetter Kop with the walrus moustache wrong manin the slapstick era Vietnam (UPI). Quang Tin Province from The Tan funeral had proceedUS. Army trock Danang when the accident ed quietly with about 190 were kidnaped and held occurred persons attending early mornConklin, who caught his share for ransom today by furious Sources said the funeral was ing cerernonies in the of pies in the face during his South Vietnamesecivilians, but for anti-government veteran central marketplace. long career, died of emphysema were released unharmed nearly leader Nguyen Ngoc Tan, who Sources said after the accomplicated by a heart condi- eight hourslater was shot and killed Sunday in cidentthe veterans used barbed tion at the Motion Picture and The drivers and their six the Danang central market- wire to enclose the six trucks, Television Country House trucks were seized after their place by pro-government veter- The rest of the convoy Conklin often made two convoy allegedly ran into a ‘Bns. managed to escape. to the airport. In a stretcher, Keystone Kops pictures a week. minibusin a funeral procession, He starred in other two- injuring eight mourners. The drivers were released after still were a novelty and the compensation was paid. accent was heavy on broad ‘Thecivilians had demanded a reelers in the days when films comedy One of his pictures, at Saigon’s Tan Son Nhut Air and Base “T'm anxious to get home. I don't have anythingelse to say.” Newsphotographersjostled where he was captured andfive miles from the Cambodian frontier. Two medics who carried Sexton on a stretcherfrom the UB!Hueyhelicopter which flew him the 1€ miles from Long Binh Army Post to saigon, unstrapped a belt holding him down se the sergeant could make the brief statement, After he pushed himself up on his elbows and spoke into dozens of microphones, he laid back, closed his eyes and was taken to the starlifiei jet, the last man to board the plane, Military spokesmen said the planeis scheduled to stop in the Philippines, Guam and Hawaii before it reaches Travis Air Base, Sexton and the 13 other patients aboard will be cared for by six doctors and nurses during the 20-hour flight to Travis, He then will be transferred to anotherplane for a flight to Buckley Air Field in Denver, where he will be admitted to a rehabilitation hospital. DETROIT (UPI) —A Michigan congressman plans to seek an investigation into a report by the family of released STAFFSGT. JOHN C. SEXTON,23, Warren, Mich., looks up from his stretcher as he ir carried to a jet for the longflight from Saigon to the United States. Sexton, whe was Rep, Lucien N. Nedzi, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, revealed his plans Monday, saying “there appears to have been extremecallousness on the part of the Pentagon.” Sexton’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Sexton Sr. of Warren, Mich., went to Denver Monday where they plan to see their son for the first time in three years. Before leaving, the elder Sexton said his son wrote a letter seven days after he was captured by the North Vietna- mese saying he was not dead “like everyone probably thinks” but the letter was held by the Army for two years. The father said he would like to know “why the letter was held up that long” with the family not knowing whether the 22-year-old Army sergeat was alive or dead. However, a Pentagon spokesmansaid Monday that Sexton’s parents weretold of the general contents of the letter, but did not receive a copy of the note which remained in Vietnam. He said the Pentagon planned to ask the Army for further clarification as to how the family was told, specifically whatwastold and when. The spokesman said that until clarification is received from the Army, the Pentagon would continue to stand behind its statement that the family was told two years ago. (See earlier story on P. 16) Pentagon officials said they prisoners of wes Sgt. John C. hadlisted Sexton as missing for Sexton Jr., that the Pentagon two years because they were withheld for two years a letter uncertain of the note’s authentiwritten by Sexton. city. A handwriting analysis released by the Viet Cong last Friday after two years in captivity, is the 24th American prisoner of war released by the Communists in the Indochina War. was then begun,officials said, and was completed last Tuesday, when it was confirmed that Sexton was the writer. Nedzi, a Detroit Democrat, said Monday he “could not conceive of any valid reason for the Pentagon handling the matter this way. The letter, dated Aug. 19, 1969, seven days after Sexton's capture, said: “Don’t be too alarmed but Soldiers BELFAST, Northern Ireland (UPI)—The British Army officially said “thank you” today to two middle-aged women who used an umbrella, stones and their fists to fight off youths this is me (John Sexton Jr.) I attacking an armored vehicle, am not dead, like everyone The action of the women, who probably thinks, I am alive and left before giving their names, well in a National Liberation may have prevented death or Front hospital. As you know, serious injury to three soldiers my truck was destroyed and I have shrapnel in my leg and trapped in the stalled troop carrier in Londonderry’s Roface, none of which is too man Catholic Bogside area serious because they have all outs, an army spokesman been treated well. The doctors have taken the shrapnel out and The vehicle broke down with T have just a few scars. a gas blockage during an “Who-ver receives this leiter, outbreak of disturbances in the tell everyone I said hello, area. It was immediate: especially Marvin, Harter and surrounded by a crowd of about Rossback (Army buddies). This 30 youths who threw stones is no hoax lette., so take care through the thick glass windows of yourself and maybe someday after ripping off the metal you can all go homealive. Your grilles. illes. friend, John Sexton Jr.” One of the soldiers inside put The elder Sexton and his wife a piece of board across the first saw the letter last month windows, but youths jumped when they went to Washington onto the vehicle and tore it to examine their son’s file. away, the spokesman said. Sexton said he and his wife saw They also tied barbed wire an Army major who “pulled around the wheels and poured this letter out of this folder and paint over the outside and we went afterit. There was no attempted to light it, he said. “Suddenly two women pushed doubt in our mind that it was their way to the front of the written by John,” A faded pictureof the ‘soldier crowd and physically beat them was attached to the letter. The back with their fists,” the elder Sexton said there was a spokesman said. “One of them notation in Vietnamese which kept shouting, ‘you are not confirmed that his son was a Christians. You will kill them.’ ” One of the women flailed eee and wasbeing treated away with her umbrella, her well. handbag slung over her arm. The other picked up stones thrown by the crowd and threw them back. The women kept up their defense for about 15 minutes, long ‘enough to enable the vehicle’s driver to climb out the Sen. Bennett said although back and go for help. The mob andone of the women benefits of the program to business have been emphasized cece, the spokesman by its critics, “the proposals sai contain tax provisions that will Lance bombadier Brian Hall, directly benefitthe individual as who, with gunner Michael Clark had locked himself inside the He noted the Administration carrier, jumped out and pulled has recummended that the in- the other woman into the creased personal exemption and vehicle. the liberalized standard “She did a marvelous job and deducation scheduled for I was thankful for it,” Clark Ji january 1, 1973, be moved said later. Hall said the women forward 12 months, could have saved his life “This means that individuals because the stones thrown by will receive additionaltaxrelief the crowd were beginning to on January 1 of next year of $4.9 get inside the carrier, Said the army spokesman: billion, counting both scheduled and proposed tax reductions,” “These were courageous wothe Senator said, noting about men and we would like to say $2.3 billion of this will be at- thank you. We don’t even know tribuiable to the acceleration. their names.” “This tax deduction will be felt The incident was one of about directlybyindividual workers at half a dozen in Londonderry thefirst of next year, through an and Belfast Monday night and increase in take-homepay.” today. _ Bennett Says Score In Tax Reduction Both the Finance and the Banking Committees will play major roles in dealing with the new economic policies with the former handling tax aspects of the package. Sen, Bennett also criticized suggestions that Congress take the initiative away from the White House in developing a phase two incomespolicy. “Whatever phase two policy turns out to be, it will be the productof delicate negotiations and compromise among the consumer, business and labor sectors of our economy," he said. “Furthermore, such a program will have wide-ranging Z GameIs Individual 34, Industry 1 WASHINGTON — The ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, Utah, has said that, viewed in the perspective of recent legislative history, the President's new economic program “will not shift tax burdens inequitably from business to the individual.” Sen. Bennett strongly defended the program in a Senate speech in which he maintained that the “score” in the “income tax reduction ball game” between 1969 and 1973 will be the individual, 34; industry,1 “This score is arrived at by taking into account the Tax Reform Act of 1969, which sharply cut the tax liabilities of middle and low income in- international aspects which must be administered by the Executive Branch, Congress is not equipped to do this.” dividuals while sharply in- creasing the taxes of business corporations,’ the Senator explained. “Over this five-year period, individual federal income tax payments will have been reduced by almost $34 billion. But corporate tax liabilities will have been cut by slightly more than $1 billion,” he added. Favors Taxpayers Gives Warning Sen. Bennett warned if Congress attempts to block the bene However, we must dividual taxpayer.” ranking minority member of the Senate Banking Committee. 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Fourteen bodies have been recovered, Wierzbinski said, and a searchis going on for the other five-all of them children. commandant said the ‘ferry carried 59 persons—well over the .egal limit of 30 to 40 persons, It had no engine and the passengers had to row themselves 165 yards across the river. ET ey TWO-DRAWER and wedding went on as planned. “But it was a very sad party,” President’s program with one of Irish moss is a seaweed used its own, ‘'the whole exercise will become a charade with no by beer brewers, substance.” “Congress must monitor and constructively evaluate the Administration's phase two Sen, Bennett said with leave to the Administration the enactment of the Ad- task of creating and administration’s tax recom- ministering it," the Senater mendations, ‘‘the score will still said. “We must give this be 34 to 1 in favor of the in- program a chance to work.” ‘The Utahn is also a high- The bride and groom were on Se FARMERS CENTERS ForDemo Convention ShowdownSeen On Credentials Policing Provincial authorities provid- capsized in the river Vistula, police said today. Defend 200,000 piasters or about $726 plus 170 cases of salad oil and 150 cases of soybean mixture. WARSAW (UPI) —Nineteen persons, including the bridegroom's mother, died Sunday when a wooden ferry taking them to a village wedding not ransom of 2.5 million piasters, or about $9,000. They settled for ed the salad oil and soybean Capsizing Of Ferry released by the Communists in Vietnamese post Friday at Loc Ninh, about 70 miles north of Saigon, about 10 miles from “Dough co starred 19 Die In is the 24th American prisoner He was captured bythe Viet Dynamite,” Charlie Chaplin. to get pictures of Sexton, who Cong and, he has reported, apparently moved across into neighboring Cambodia where he remained in captivity. Sexton walked into 2 South DA NANG, of two-reel sijents, died Mon- Twelve day. He was 83. drivers he was put aboard a starlifter jet for the long flight from Saigon to Denver, with a brief stop at Travis AFB, Calif. “It's geet to be hack,” Sexton told a crowd of newsmen 60 miles north of Saigon. Release U.S. Army Men HOLLYWOOD (UPI)—Ches- and a penchant for hitting the Warren, Mich., wasflown in an olivedrab military medical evacuation chopper from a hospital where he has been under treatment since Friday ambushed Aug. 12, 1969, about S. Viet Civilians Kidnap, Chester Conklin Succumbsat 83 ter Conklin, the daffy Keystone SAIGON (UPI) —A 23-yearold Army sergeant freed after two years in Communist captivity left for the United States today saying, ‘I'm anxious to get heme.” S. Sgt. John C. Sexton Jr., the Indochina War. Sexton's reddish hair was close-cropped, his right eye inflameand a email scar was visible on his chin. The injuries apparently were caused by shell fragments when his armored personnel carrier was Tuesday, October 12, 1971 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah—Page 25 For Traffic Accident_ Keystone Cop WASHINGTON (UPI) —A mixture. American military showdown between the old authorities apparently paid the guard and militant reformers ransom, In the past they have over selection of a temporary made cash compensation to the chairman to police delegate families of Vietnamesekilled or credentials for next year's Democrati: National Conveninjured by U.S. drivers. Thecivilians, mostly disabled tion promises to dominate this veterans, seized the 12 drivers week's meeting of the party's and their six vehicles nine National Committee. The two-day meeting, which miles south of Da Nang. The mourners were in a funeral opens Wednesday and may be cortege of a veterans’ leader the final session before ti.2 June convention, alse is expectshot Sunday. Armed with carbines, .45 ed to pass a reverse loyalty caliber pistols and M16 rifles, oath degigned to control any the veterans piled out of six convention delegates Alabama other minibuses in a funeral Gov, George C. Wallace might cortege nine miles south of pick up in Democratic here, shot out the tires of the primaries. The contest for temporary six U.S. trucks leading a convoy and surrounded the chairmanshipof the Credentials Committee matches Patricia vehicles. The drivers and helpers of Roberts Harris, former ambasthe six Army trucks were captured and the veterans, manning electric _bullhorns demanded that U.S. authorities’ pay them $9,000 ransom for the trucks and soldiers, The $9,000 was equivalent of 2,5 million piasters, a mon- sador to Luxembourg, and Sen. Harold E, Hughes of Iowa. As expected, Hughes has the backing of the liberal, reform elements in the National Committee. Mrs. Harris has the support of organized labor eid the old guard, announc.d candidates for the S. Muskie of Maine, the acknowledged front-runner, has not disclosed nis decision. Former Sen, Eugene J. McCarthy of Minnesota said the selection of Hughes would be “the clearest and most reassuring sign that the Democratic National Commitiee intends to tuake the guidelines the rule of the next convention, Psychiatric Evaluation To Be Asked DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah (UPI) — Th: defense counsel for 3 solaier charged with the murder of a 36-year-old Army wife has requested a psychiatric evaluation board for his client, Capt. Keith Rodli filed the umental sum to a Vietnamese Sens. George S. McGovern of South Dakota and Fred R. petition on behalf of i veteran, The incident was touched off Harris of Oklahoma, the only William E. Noreen, 21, or City, Iowa, who is behing hel when the front truck of a at Fort Carson, Colo., in = convoy of 10-20 semitrailer nection with the slaying of Mrs. trucks rammed the rear Oak Sun Murray, whose body minibus in the cortege. codfound Wednesday Eight mourners were injured, three seriously, in the accident Noreen is also cl rhfem PARIS (UPI)--Six million with which apparently aroused the anger of the veterans, who also Parisian commuters struggled premeditated attemp! with jammed buses, in connection were in the funeral procession The military sources said stalled taxis and even over- attempts of the lives of Mrs. none of the servicemen, from crowded boats while the 2,000 Murray’stwochildren. Both ars the Americal Division, was subway workers entered the in satisfactory condition in the injured. Officers went to the seventh day of a strike against hospital here, Base officials. said that if the scene and offered the veterans the 71-year-old Metro system, about $1,100 compensation for City officials said the huge situation warrants, a psychiathe injuries suffered by the increase in motor vehicles on tric evaluation board will be ~ie streets had caused carbon convened, The Army sent Vietnamese on the minibus. The cortege was enroute to monoxidepollution to reach the Noreen to Colorado follwing his danger poini. arrest. Paris Hit By SubwayStrike Trenoye]a=de Ridessaeance fertilize this fall |