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Show fLS!1 r -- l9 vjj yy iff ii 4 jw . Ny ;h vf VVr 4 rt tt f Itah ;a ' i t iA V- - 'ft',' tj - ? r J 'rf C f1 N ',. - ) A'TNj , V 4. 4 r tr ' et .f v 'S - - V, ' 9 I i , i i YVJ &' Y i A-- - H -- v A' V vX , or ft 'y r y X fc nits If Iii Nazi 1 Agreement escape , Hoim (iiit's I p Boon Lew aid iter Police said Tuesday they had called off the search for escaped Nai war criminal Herbert Kappler because the eonstititution bars Ills extradition to Italy, where he was serving a life sentence until smuggled out of a hospital in a large suitcase The affair strained relations between West Germany and Italy and prompted the two governments to postpone a summit meeting that had been set for Friday in Verona, Italy. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti agreed to delay their talks until sometime this fall, a West German spokesman said. The Federal Criminal Office in Wiesbaden said jHhce were no longer involved in the Kappler case and it wav up to the courts to decide whether action might be taken against the former GestajK) chief of ltonu Escapes Early Monday Kappler, said to be dy ing of intestinal cancer th.it has reduced hit. weight to 108 pounds, escaped early Monday from a prison hospital in Rome Italian authorities said Kapplers wife, Anneliese, apparently spirited him out of the institution in a suitcase. Kappler, who had served 30 years of a life sentence for ordering the 1944 reprisal shootings of 335 Italians, had said he wanted to die in Germany. Italy rejected several West German requests to release him on humanitarian grounds. Thousand of Italians attended a memorial service Tuesday at the caves where the reprisal victims are buried. A rabbi recited prayers. Requests Extradition lA..i &V r r -- .y Mr, AA sgFy 1 j '. C rfSH" sj? Xii, ' , y M v ,jp Associated Press Wirephoto stone slab with his name engraved on oppo-lat- e site side at fudge booth in Illinois fair. Sam Clark, 59, of Tampa, Fla., pours choeo- fudge after mixing it on marble tomb- Chicago Daily News Service Even if SPRINGFIELD, 111. Robert Samuel Clark didnt love his work so much, hed take it with him to his grave. He has no choice. Sams workbench is his tombstone. , Robert Samuel Clark is better known around these parts as Sam the Candy Man. lie comes to the Illmois State Fair about this time every year to make, in his unbiased the best fudge in the opinion, microphone to his white slops 2b pounds of gooey chocolate on the backside world least twice an hour, he pms tombstone, and commences to knead it into perfection while he keeps up a steady banter for the gathering crowd of passers-by- . Im going to show you how make fudge by the numbers, he tells the pressing mass of bodies. Im going to strip it, dip it. flip it and box it " Ciuidy Man Grows Fat, Rich Thrives on Own Tomb Someday, the brown marble slab will mark the burial spot of Sams cold body. Todaj it helps Sam make cold cash a high-calor- ie Clark is only one of hundreds of concessionaires hustling things from pronto pups to elephant ears at the fair. However, he may very' well be the most successful of the hucksters who brown of the travel the summerlong fair circuit. Aided by a good gimmick, good gab and good fudge, hes become pros- - Wi See Page 2, Column Italy formally requested Kapplcrs extradition, but the West German constitution forbids extradition of German nationals who face legal action abroad. About 230 Germans sentenced in absentia for war crimes by the French courts are believed enjoying 1 constitutional Rains Drenching S. California Harm Crops, Threaten Slides By Mike Goudkmd Associated Press Writer Rains from a waning Mexican hurricane drenched portions of Californias southern half submerging aterslieds which had been charred by prev ious fires. In those areas, the vv ater became a rampaging, destructive torrent instead of a blessing. The lams weie spawned by Ilur ricane Doreen off Baja California, and of the border town of left w LOS ANGELES croplands, stranding thousands oi motorists, and endangering Santa Barbaras canyons with mudslide. It was only the latest natural disaster to befall the state. As the rain fell in the south, fire fighters in northern California were trying to contain the last of a series of huge fires set off by lightning. The fires, in turn,' had been worsened by months of di ought lliut destroyed crops worth millions of dollars. Rains Too Far South I'nfortiinately , the rains did not fall on the fires. And officials of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said the rains were too far south Owens to help its drought-starveValley reservoir, although flood watches were in effect for the Owin Valley on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada and in southwestern Nevada The ram was heaviest wheie it was least wanted- in the delicate and hostile desert, in irrigated valleys and ill the d - Move Could Split GOP As Struggle Expected two-tliir- An oil to a drain plug slopped the flow of North Slope oil through the Alaska pipeline lor the seventh time in eight weeks, federal FAIRBANKS, by officials said Tuesday. Several hundred barrels of the tliii k, black crude sprayed into the main pumphouse at Pump Station No 9, about Ml miles south of Fairbanks, and the pipeline was shut down. The 'pill was caused because a woiker failed to replace a drain plug when the oil flow was switched troni one pump to another Monday night, said Arlan Kohl of the Interior Department. West Oil Monday, a West German government spokesman said Kappler was iKlieved to bo in West Germany. Telephone calls to M rs Kapplers home in Soltau northeast of Hannover were unanswered. Mexicali submerged. The 300 residents of Ocotillo in Imperial County were asked to evacuate their homes Tuesday night. Were evacuating the town on a voluntary basis. said a harried Ocotillo Fire Department spokesman. Were and asking people to going leave. Water a Foot Deep He said water was a foot deep in many of the homes. The retirement community of homes and trailers is on the San Diego County line about 70 miles east of San Diego Many of the homes sit in dry washes, where the floodwaters come gushing down from the mountains Last Sept. 11, the town was nearly-washeaway by torrential rains spanned by Tropical Storm Kathleen At least six persons were killed Twenty homes were destroyed and 70 badly damaged As many as 2.000 motorists were stranded in cars Monday night along lonely trans-desehighways in California and Nevada. In Santa Barbara County, where a See Page 2, Column door-to-do- Oil Spill Stops Pipeline Again Alaska (UPl) failure spill caused replace in protection Germany. rt 1 Kapplers escape left only one Nazi war criminal in Italian custody. Walter Reder, a former army major held responsible for the slaying of 1,800 persons, is serving a life term at the Gaeta military prison. Symbol of Occupation In Italy, Andreotti called Kappler a symbol of the cruel Nazi occupation of Rome" and said he told Italys ambassador in Bonn to begin extradition proceedings. former partisan fighters and Jewish groups angrily demanded to know from the Rome government why Kappler was able to escape. Italys national police announced the transfers of four high-- i anking officers as a result of Kapplcrs escape lroni Celio Hospital. anti-Fasci- st Left-winger- Israel, the chairman of the Committee for Fighting Nazism asked the s Israeli government to demand extradition to Italy In Kap-pler- . Tribune Wire Serv ices Former President Gerald Ford promised Tuesday to support President Garters new Panama Canal agreement, a move that may divide Republicans in what appears to be a tough and emotional political struggle for ratification Carter Taps FBI Chief ? Los Angeles Times Service President Carter WASHINGTON Wednesday will name U S. Dist. Judge M Johnson Jr. of Montgomery, as FBI director, the Los Angeles Times learned Tuesday. Informed sources said Atty. Gen Griffin B. Bell, rejecting the candidates proposed by a presidentially appointed selection committee, has turned to Johnson, 58, a Republican who is considered among the leading civil rights activists on the federal bench. Johnson turned down the job last December when then President-elec- t Carter first discussed it with him at a meeting in Atlanta. He cited financial and family reasons, the same grounds he used when he later rejected Bells offer to become deputy attorney general. Bell is understood to have persuaded Johnson by arguing that the post will be among the most important appointments Carter makes during his presidency and that the men proposed by the FBI search committee lacked the experience and stature Carter was seeking Johnson could not be reached Tuesday. Ihs brother, Jimmy, said he thought the judge had gone fishing. Frank Ala , Elvis MEMPHIS, Tenn. (LPI) Presley, the gyrating king of rock 'n' roll who changed the face of music forever when he growled You ain't nothin but a hound dog two decades ago, died Tuesday of an erratic heartbeat. The fabulously wealthy, singer Pel- Elvis The eagie is our national emblem, but the national flower has got to be the cost-o- f living rose. the when he vis burst upon the world in the mid-1950- s The died King" now face down on the floor of a bathand room Todays Chuckle United Press Internationa! Fire fighters made a stand at Rattlesnake Creek Tuesday, gouging out a fire line three bulldozers w ide in a bid to stop the giant Marble Cone forest fire , at G his is room mansion. He had visited a dentist Monday night and played racquet hull with members of his entourage until 0 a m. His doctor said he may have died at 9 a nv, but Ins race-land- Tribune Telephone Numbers. Page 2 A-- G,(KK) firemen ringed the 152,900-acrfire ill Los Padres Nationfire line after al Forest with a a battle, and a major as. ault was launched against a wall of flames on the north end, where a fire line carved along a rugged ridge stood between the holocaust and Carmel Valley Village. "This will he the maker or the breaker. said Bill Powers, L.S. Forrest Service fire spokesman in nearby King City. We don't expect it to be the breaker. We are all sick and tired of this thing and we want this to bo the last e 145-mil- e The outlook was not so encouraging big fires burned into a single 1G, blaze in Klamath National Forest despite the efforts of ,900 fire fighters 700-acr- e e WrdmxIaGis Forwasl Show Salt ake City and vicinity ers likely and not so warm Weather detail- - on Page 1) forward." Ford promised to use his influence to support passage. Fords support followed by one day a meeting between Kissinger, Ford's secretary of state, and President Carter at the White House. Kissinger said then that if later briefings upheld his first impression, he would support the pact in testimony before the Senate. Ford said the agreement follows the and guidelines of my administration, he called on Americans to support the measure. I hope I speak for the vast majority of Americans, the former President told reporters outside his rented home here in the central Colorado Rockies Phone Conversations Ford's support followed telephone conversations with Carter and briefings by advisors, including Scowcroft, who attended Tuesdays meeting. When reporters asked Brown if the See Page 2, Column I lody was not discovered by road manager Jerry Esposito until 2:30 p.m. Dr. Jerry Francisco, the Shelby County medical examiner, said an autopsy indicated Presley died of cardiac arrythmia, which he described as a "severely irregular heartbeat He said Presley had high blood pressure and some coronary artery disease. These two diseases may be responsible for the cardiac arr-lthmia. No Precise Cause "The precise cause of death may never be discovered, said Francisco, the man who performed the autopsy on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But both Francisco and Dr. George Nielutpolous, Presleys personal physician, reported no trace of drugs other than the medicine Presley tixik for by pertension and a colon problem Efforts to revive Presley at Baptist Hospital were abandoned at 3 30 p m Rumors swept from coast to coast and mourning began when bis death was confirmed. Radio stations throughout the world begun playing hours of his songs Politicians and entertainers eulogized him. Record stores, which for the past 22 year have sold more than too million of his albums, were jammed. r down Cars moved Elvis Presley Boulevard m front of Graceland. A growin ' crowd pressed gates, against the heavy wrought-irodei orated with musical notes. Sheriff's deputies lined the inside of the high brick wall ringing the estate to prevent any rush on mourthe grounds by ners What did he die of9'' asked a teen-age- r lined up to buy a stack of albums m Atlanta "He died of rock n' roll, man," answered the older man ahead of him y grief-stricke- near the Oregon stale line where three Sears 12- Page Section. proved," said Ford. I hope and trust the two treaties are speedily passed by Congress. It is an important step n Nearly we see of it. MORE Section. K Marl I am absolutely convinced that it is in the national interest of the United States that the two treaties be ap- bumper-to-bumpe- liefore it reaches 2.000 homes near the central California coast. two-wee- k Inside "Flu Tribune The agreement, which would cede control of the canal to the Panamanian government at the end of this century, although ensuring continued neutrality, was announced last week, the culmination of 1G years of negotiations As Gen George Brown, chairman ot the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Ambassador and treaty negotiator Sol Linowitz, and Fords National Security adviser, Brent Scowcoft. briefed the former President in Vail, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance arranged to discuss the pact w ith his predecessor. Homy Kissinger. Afterwards, Kissinger told LIT: "1 will supiKirt it Its just a question of in what way." National Interest Rock Great Elvis Presley Dies at Memphis Home Make or Break Stand Seeks to Control Fire 1 ( Rappler limit I AND ' vr Hike rilt(tn BONN, West Germany Tuesday, y jSbt ff.r.t isy ri :L C J Ire Rises Bv At v a 's? 17, 1977 August Associated Press !r n T.m alftbi A v 1 Wednesday Morning J x ' & - a vt !f -- I- Salt Lake City, Y' 4 "1 ' f I l H Z Vol. 215, No. 125 A t. 11 1 The Fong Hummel lire linked up with the Hog blaze six miles southwest of Folk,, of the Salmon a tiny town near (tie junction of the Siskiyou and Hum bold! county lines There was no estimate of containment , Ajvoc Charles Craii of the I'.S. Forest Service walks through burnt trees and brush on Chews Ridge east 130, of (MM) afeu Press rtirepnoto Carmel Valley, Calif., where more than aeres have been destroyed by blaze. h n Telephones Jammed The Memphis telephone system nearly collapsed along with The King. Officials appealed to the grief stricken public to make no unnecessary calls. Presley brought rin k 'n' roll to stay Hound Dog," "Heartbreak with Hotel" and "Blue Suede Shin's Teen-ager- s went into frenzies, hut parents, seeing his long, shiny hair and sideburns, his sneer and his hooded eyes and most of all his grinding laps, went into shock So much did those hips offend parents Sec Page 2, Column 4 |
