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Show Page 22—THE HERALD,Provo, Utah Tuesday, April 20, 1971 Jury Selection In Several AmericansDie in Hotel Slay Case Stymied Fire in Bangkok Diplomat Sector By CAROBEL DANIEL BANGKOK (UPI)—A predawn fire ravaged the Imperial Hotel early today, causing a number of deaths and injuries. Doctors at the Sth U.S. Army Field Hospital outside Bangkok said most of the victims were fire escapes were difficult to find in the confusion of Americans. Police said they had recov- darkness, smoke and fire ered 22 bodies and expected to “My friend and I were oblivious to anything else going find more. The Imperial, a modern, 110 on except doing what we could room hotel, is in Bangkok's to get the people out of there,” diplomatic quarter. It is fre- said Lt, Col. Gene Leupp, who CASPER, Wyo. (UPI) — released. Jucas was acquitted. All three have pleaded inJuryselection ended in a stalemate Monday in the trial of nocent to the new charges. turee Jackson men charged as Goldsmith appeeled to the 10th accessories to murder in con- U.S. Gireuit Court cf Appeals nection with a slaying in which that another trial constituted all three men were tried for double jeopardy. But the court ruled the accessory charge was murder in Nevada David Geldsmith, Ted Linn separate and distinct from the and Glen Lucas sat calmly at the murder chargeitself. defense table Monday, watching Linn is presently appealing a the slow, tedious process of questioning potential jurors ceaviction in federal courts for possession of counterfeit coin None was chosen, The Natrona Countyclerk said molds, He was sentenced to 150 more veniremen were being five years. He also faces fedcalled in addition to the 75 left = charges of illegally making id possessing a silencer. remaining from an earlier jury call. It was expected to take “Goldsmith was fined $25 last is on leave from his U.S. Air Force station in Hawaii quented by U.S. diplomats and military officers and their families, as well as tourists of various nationalities. Some of the survivors complained no alarm was sounded, the firemen were late and the “The pity is, I couldn't find a fire escape. There must be one, but I couldn’t find it.” Capt. James James, a physician at the hospital, said, “Mostof the people were bitter about there being no way out of the hotel. No one | talked to heard the alarm.” Leupp, who said his fingers were “all torn up from holding on to the edge of the building while trying to lower other people to the ground,” said one woman panicked and leaped three floors to the concrete pavement. Other witnesses said some people leaped from the Mote! Clerk WoundedIn Salt Lake City Shootout SALT LAKECITY (UPI) - A spokesman for the hospital A shootout with two bandits said both slugs exited through the motel clerk and he “stands local motel in poor cendition a real good chance.” todaywith bullet wounds in the Dep. Cameron Hansen, Salt arm and throat. Lake City Police Dept., said Police were searching for two two men in their early 20s rang suspects and one is thought to the night bell at the Western Motor Lodge (323 West North have beer wount Temple) about 1:30 a.m. Robert Carroll, 78, was listed When Carroll answered the in poor condition at the Univer- ring the men forced their way sity of Utah Medical Center ear- in and “‘hegan shooting.” Carly today where he was under- roll returned the fire with a going treatment for a bullet .22 caliber pistol and one of the wound in the left arm and an- men fell to the lobby floor. other in the base of the throat. The clerk also went down, By United Press International The mountain regions of the Southwest took a beating from tornados, hail and snow late Monday and early today. Thunderstorms spread into the Great Plains area. An apparent tornado overturned two trailer houses, smashed windows and away a shed roof near Cheyenne, Wyo, A tornado was sighted west of Pearsall, Tex. Tennis-ball-sized hail thrashed a 2 5 2 = g S 3g 3 eS BS a 25 left an elderly night clerk at a RegionIs Battered By Storm The men are charged in connection with the 1967 shooting The Rev. Tony Tersch, of the death of Jackson businessman Larry Olinger. All three of the defendants along with Robert Lindblad were tried in hevada for the slayings of both Olinger and Robert Stucker. The bodies were found in a shallow gravein the desert near Carson City, “Don't go in there, it’s terrible,” he said. “I've personally annointed 10 bodies already. They’re still in there. “One mother took her three children to a bathroom. I annointed the four bodies in the tub. They had chocked to death on the smoke.” Authorities said there were no records of any enlisted men on rest-and-recreation leave from Vietnam at the hotel. They said enlisted men usually _ avoid the $10-$12-e-day hotel and favor the honky-tonk district. persons died in the blaze. Police fear more victimsstill may be buried in the rubble. The hotel is one used by American military and diplomatic personnel and their families. THROUGH CASCADING water, a fireman carries the body of a victim down a staircase at the Imperial Hotel in Thailand, after an early morning‘ire today. At least 18 Publishers Viet Veterans Campout Salt Laker Warned In Capital in 2nd Day Dies in On Welfare High and Low Temperatures Are Reported yw Was ftale | New Visiting Hours Slated For Spike Site NEW YORK (UPI)—Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller warned newspaper publishers Monday that the United States is developing a welfare culture “completely out of step with our existing culture” and urged creative thinking about the relationship of federal and local 2g re, == 5 fl :: my main concern today is wien mounting costs of these (welfare) services a going to overwhelm city and state government.” Rockefeller flew from Washington to address the 1,500 publishers after confe:ring with BRIGHAM CITY, Utah (UPI) Health, Welfare and Education it officials on his —New visiting hours are in effect at ‘he National Golden plan to provide welfare clients Historic in prepara- with job incentives. He tia his tion for the 102nd anitanniversary g of the driving of the golden Officials at the site, 32 miles met of Brigham City, have set the ll am, to ree M through y, and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. for Saturday and Sunday. ] GROUP Polyester Sportswear WASHINGTON (UPI) James Pursewell, 22, — fey with each other andit’s mpureewsll was one of the more than 1,000 Vietnam veterans who camped at the foot of the Capitol Monday <i»30-50% Heo irae Peed eae Safety grille front 20-INGH ion BOX $ $1666 Portable so you can take your cool with you. To any room. Slim-linestyle. Avocado, 115y. AC. WRITING PAPER oth, Reg. 69 Look crushed off the leg. On. . look great. Stretch nylon won Se, bag Foi kes. 24sheets with 20 tissues or tint-. ined envelopes. Vellum or parch- ment papers, some deckle edged. 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Vie cae) JACKETS WSN ae Or ATLANTA (UPI)—Four big boxes of scrip issued by the Western and Atlantic Railroad in 1862, in the amountof 25 and 50 cents, used to give change to customers without exact fare, have been discovered in vaults 3 HOURS ONLY RS J 2THTRY a Wo Starts Georgia Vaults OEE LET night, ending their first day of a week-long protest against the war, As night cameto the encampment—notents or fires were allowed by a court order which allowed the camping—the veterans gathered in small groups around a bandstand to eat, sleep, talk and be entertained, The air was heavy with the smell of marijuana and filled with the sound of a local f suburban rock band. “This is the friendliest group reason.” “T think we can ve of people I’ve ever been with,” a i reason,” said Rock- Pursewell said. Several hundred veterans ‘ne ANPA’s 85th annual crowded around the makeshift convention devoted most of bandstand and passed bottles of wine and cans of beer to each Monday to reports from its other as the music played. labor relations commitiee, private discussion of labor problems, and a talk by the a eyo ecgst Steg chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) LUN ete Yee ter) The state alleged Goldsmith hired the others to kill his business partners so he could collect insurance money. Lindblad turned state’s evidence and was granted i: munityin the Nevada trial. Linn was convicted and sentenced to life, but was later released on a legal technicality. Goldsmith was sentenced to 12 months on a pleaof no contest but had served 15months awaiting trial and was stood beneath the clear night sky and listened to a rock band, From the porket of his faded khaki fatigue jacket hung a Silver Star. “I plan to turn it in on Friday,” the two-tour veteran of the war in Vietnam said. “We went into the Army and we did a good job. Now we've come home and the people are REDUC V3 Ts Rail Scrip Foundin HONEST. SALE ah Bat Cero Rss edhe fe) 2 and public indecency CT43 MOONLIGHT teen EW WRANGL week after pleading guilty be- fore a justice of the peac- in Jackson for breach of the peace Ney., in October, 1967. David Paul Anderson, 25, Salt Lake City, was killed Saturday afternoon when thetank truck he was driving overturned and careened into a pasture on 8400 government. ‘West near 26th South. “Congress has given no Investigators blamed the accident on an apparent stuck indication that it is going to give very much (tax money) audience New York state will accelerator. enforce a ene-year residence NEW YORK (UPI) —The Anderson was attempting to back to local government,” requirement for welfare recitemperature reported bring the vehicle to a stop in the Rockefeller told an opening day pients, thereby challenging a aeeey by the National Weath- pasture when he struck a ditch session of the American NewsUS. 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