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Show Vol. 207, No. 64 Salt Lake City, Utah June Sunday Morning Price Thirty 17, 197:; -- fi e Cents oyiet Hart Talks Monday By Barry Schw eid Associated Press . : m 1.. 1 ' $ . j C x- rwae J tf I - cC... y Combined Wire Services WASHINGTON tor said John T where he held hostages. Police accused the slaying of a police officer and a Press Wireohofo Silas of girl. X former Ernest M. Silas. 34. died in a hospital four and one-ha- lf hours after his capture. He had emerged from the house and collapsed on the doorstep, blood gushing trom his head and mouth some four hours alter the violence started, police U said The motive of the rampage was not immediately known Single Shot Police said a single shot believed to have killed the girl was heard inside the house lust be iore the man came outside Tile dead gill was idenlilied as Magic "The shot was tired into that little Inspector Earl Bergfeld sleeping girl. said Another officer. Gary Larsen, said Silas shot the girl m the head i about 8.15 a m.. with some 40 rom the Berkeley and Oakland dearea and partments blocking a stationed with shotguns around Hie lioU'-e- . oil leers look Silas wile, Martha, rear Wife Cries Out She cried "Jondi. can you hear me? re you hurt I dont want an thing to happen lo you" woman inside the house, who had Irom Silas to pass been to polo e outside yelled foi police H go lo Hie iionl o! the house They did and shoitlv al'oruanl a single ..hot was heai d inside the lioU'-- Tins was the shot llial killed the gut police said. Police then moved ill vutnes-e- s said police Suddenly maiksinen lirecl at lead in shots A hole a foot in diameter was blasted into the me-sag- e front doorway its Ml Over over." a policeman yelled. "Ifs The dead girls lather. Richaid Pnddy. all hysiencS He with tn woman hostage and the dead girl Hie girl's mother was reported out id the Cailie oUl of the house 01 ('imbed into an ambulance state 'U I Press Wirephoto accused murderer who was shot down by Berkeley police. Sobbing. Martha Silas clutches at her husband Ernest M. Silas. 34, Skylabs Astronauts Gird For Trip Back to Earth Associated Press Writer SPACE CENTER. HOUSTON (AP) space veterans crawled back into their command ship on Saturday to practice for their return to earth. Astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., Dr Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz boarded the command ship, attached to the Skylab spare station, and tuned up their flying skills for and splashdown on Kndav Mission Control exports participated in what officials said was essentially a procedure This was the first practice of ," said an official The switches will be thrown for real on Friday as the astronauts undock the command ship from Skylab and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, about 701) miles southwest of San Diego. During the rehearsal, a flare exploded nr, the sun for the second day in a row, but the powerful solar telescope on .Skylab missed photographing it. Tne flare started while Skylab was on the opposite side of the earth from the sun and when the solar disc came back into vnw the flare was declining The astronauts made mans first space of a solar flare on kylab -S- ls switch-touching- " y s lili-- e Dean was reported ready to testify about the conversation in his televised appearance next week before the Senate Watergate Committee. The former White House counsel met Saturday with staff members and lawyers for the Senate committee to prepare for his testimony, which begins Tuesday. The White House, told of the new assertion by Dean, refused to comment. In a statement, a spokesman said. We are not going to comment on tins type of John Dean Source story." Plan to W ork Beyond Freeze - The Nixon WASHINGTON (AP) will make its Phase 4 sw control-- , lough enough tern ol wage-pric- e to prevent another puce explosion alter the treeze expires, the President's duel economic adviser says. "Were not going to go through another Phase 3. said Herbert Stein, chairman id the President's Council of Economic Advisers. We just cant let that " happen Stein referred to the tremendous increase in prices that occurred alter President Nixon lifted most mandatory wage-priccontrols on Jan. 11. To Prevent Bulge said lie the next controls program would be designed to prevent another Stor, Page A-- 4- bulge in mllatton such as occurred allei the freeze expired in wage-pricNovember. 1971. y e Neither Edmisten nor Samuel Dash, committees chief counsel, would comment on the substance of Dean's tes- In an interview. Stein said Phase 4 will be more mandatory and comprehensive than Phase 2. He left open the possi- timony. Dash did say Dean was not questioned on matters relating to speeihc conversations with President Nixon, national security or anything that might fall into relationthe area of his attorney-clien- t ship with Nixon, Dash said. Ip to Committee bility He said those matters would be dealt with by th, committee when it meets with Dash in another private session Monday afternoon. Dash said Dean is preparing an opening statement for his public and televised appearance befor-th- e committee Tuesday which gives all the information he has supplied in the secret questioning Dean is scheduled to be questioned in Todays Chuckle book is not really a success until people who haven't read it pretend they have. A that some remain after the price would ceilings A-- 4 Kistains near Thurmont, Mil Henry s national President the security singer. adviser, will drop by to see Brezhnev on Sunday. Normally, the U S ambassador to Moscow would be at the airport to greet the Soviet leader. But the post has been vacant for almost live months Rogers presence, m addition to that ol Acting Piotocol Chief Marion Smouk. both fills the gap and adds an extra touch Economic Aides Belated d Belated Stories A-- -' physics and may help man learn about the natural nuclear fusion occurring on the sun To Relax at Lodge was to be at Key Biscay ne. ear-olFla . while Ills guest relaxes al Dogwood Lodge in the Gatoctin Moon- Nixon Senate sources said that two private r sessions are intended to determine exactly what Dean knows ot possible presidential involve-SeColumn I Page Was he cooperative? Most definiteHe was very ly," Edmisten said. frank. Friday. Scientists said the pictures are very significant in the study of solar By Paul Recer olfi-cel- s lour-bloc- k lu tile Associoted . question-and-aiiswe- the Wolf I panel. Saturdays session came on the eve o! the first anniversary of the arrests of live agents for the Committee of the President infor Hie side Demon ;it;c headquarters at the Watergate Dean's testimony is scheduled at the same time Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev is visaing wijh Nixon next week. Two Sessions said Dean had related about Nixons alfrom Egil came leged involvement Krogh Jr., one of the directors of the plumbers group assigned by the President to investigate Elisberg aftei the publication of the Pentagon Papers in June, 1971. The burglary occurred in Beverly Hills. Calif., in September. 1971. Set to Testify . I counsel that the information - At presidential The sources I A gunman BERKELEY. CALIF was fatally wounded Saturday alter he killed a girl in her bed and shot a policeman to death, police said. The gunman had also wounded two persons and taken four others hostage before lie was flushed out and shot down in a lusillade of police guntire. police said. The man who was hit over the head managed to escape He was nol immediately idenlilied He and Levine were listed m satisfactory condition at a hospital Two of dm original hostages managed to escape to the roof soon after the gunman entered the house gave answers However, the New York Times said in its Saturday editions Dean told government investigators that a high White House aide mlornied him last January that the orders for the burglary of files belonging to Dr. Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist came "from the Uval of President Nixon. The Times office said sources close to Watergate supplied the information By Tun Reilerman Associated Press Writer Mail Escapes Senate investiga- Aery Frank m The violence began about 5 a m when he gunman wounded Steve Levine. 26. Police Sgt James Rutledge. 50. was killed with his own gun as he attempted to. handcutf Silas, then the gunman broke into a nearby house where he hit one man over the head and took four other pel sons hostage, ofticers said A Gerald L. Warren, the deputy While W are House press secretary, said honoring a request by the Soviets for this to be a private arrival lies guest of the I tilled Stales vv bile in this country Monday by all seven senators serving oil the Watergate quite different from any public testimony given so far in five hours behind closed doors Saturday. vg Associated - W. Dean III spokesman at the Soviet embassy said that since Brezhnev's visit does not begin officially until lie calls on Nixon at the White House on Monday "no news coverage is planned " another secret session atergate committee lawyers Once having been sworn in and granted limited immunity from prosecution Ho anything he might say. Dean answeied all questions. Rufus Ednusten. committee deputy counsel, told reporlers -- A s 'New Dean Answers, Senate Prober Says The A V,, Police Bullets Turns Out in Full The Soviet Politburo had tut tied out in full I" see Brezhnev olf at the Russian capital But at tins end I S ollieiaN bowed lo Soviet wishes anml obvious concern for security and anaiige.t a arrival The public generally, ,iiui all bul a hand iievv s pliolograi-'u-ilul of reporters were barred ft cm the air base Secretary ut State William P. Kogeis headed the Mnencan welcoming delegation at Andrews Mr force Base The emerged from a committee room without saying a word after interrogation by W- 7 of Child Slayer f Killed bv a heli- Sov IL-6'- 2 low-ke- A Silas lies in a pool of blood after being gunned down at a Berkeley, Calif., bouse Ilyushin Soviet . I M. Communist limitations, closer economic ties and a range of global problems "v Ernest nev. Leader Leonid L. Brezhnev armed Saturday for a series of summit talks with President Nixon on new mu tear arms i ict leader immediately boarded copter tor Camp David. Mil jet carrieu BrezhForeign Minister Andrei Gromyko and oilier top aides into the nation s capital trom Moscow alter a reluel mg slop at Gander, Newfoundland n iter Soviet WASHINGTON a , W l new Ireeze expires. The visit to the United States is in return for Nixon's trip to Moscow in May 1972 That first Minimil with Brezhnev produced an agreement to limit defenNow the two nusive nuclear weaponclear powers will try to reach an understanding that could result in a permanent ban on various offensive weapons Second Major Goal is !' find a way to provide American technological skills to the Soviet Union and to tap Siberian oil. gas and other resources for the United States. The major hurdle is insistence by a majority of both houses of Congress that no trade concessions be granted the Russians unless they allow free emigration of Jews and other minorities ' Their second major goal On Sunday. American Jewish groups planned a demonstration at the Capitol lo focus public attention on the issue. Brezhnev, who told a news conference m Moscow on Thursday that there is no Jewish problem m the Soviet Union. will be miles away at Camp Davio (tiler areas and issues certain to be discussed by Nixon and Brezhnev include the Middle East, lnduchina and prospects tor a reduction of L.S. and Soviet military forces in Europe "Maybe you move in small steps." the economist said Slower Action meant that the Nixon administration would go slow about decontrolling the economy once the freeze is over in August. By that, he apparently Asked why the stock market had failed lo res)ond after Nixon put the freeze on Wednesday night. Stein notgd there is a difletence between the atmosphere ol the 1irM treeze and the latest one "The.- - now realize that what counts is is beyond the treeze." Stem said ulial But lie added that the stock market appeared to be totally irrational and in a state ot hydrophobia. Asked why the dollar also appeared to be in trouble in foreign money markets alter Nixon announced ins latest move, he said, one reason is that a lot ol people do not understand the treeze." Home and Parade Magaincs. SuihIuaV Forecast Salt Luke City and vicinity Variable elojiiiness. occasional showers and continued coolness are due Sunday Weather map. page Problems With Party Charter Splinter Battle Erupts Among Democrats - A new battle r.ASHINGTON (AP) like the one which tore the Democratic party apart in 1972 appears to he developing. tins time over the shape of a proposed party charter The battle threatens to wreck National Chairman Robert S Strauss strenuous unity efforts. It con'd erupt into a party splitting fight between regulars and reformers at the special 1974 convention that will write the charter The is the current battleground Charter Commission, headed by former Gov Terry Santord of North and Carolina, a 1972 presidential also-rathe president ol Duke I Diversity The commission, which holds its next meeting Job 20 in Fort Collins. Colo is n , charged with drafting a proposed party charter that will then be submitted to the convention for approval, it will deof the party organization between 1974 and 1976 and, perhaps, influence the next presidential nomination. 1974 termine the shape One faction, including some who de1972 veloped the partys controversial McGovern delegate selection relorms. appears to lav or creation of a highly st nurtured party organization with increased emphasis on issues. includes elected Democratic officials and organized labor, appears to favor something that would formalize present structure The other faction, which Stiauss and his allies among of Rick Sterans. a kv 1972 McGovern aide who has been working as a consultant to Sanford The real fight is between doing nothing and real substantive changes." sa.d Anne AVexler of Connecticut, a comm.s-siomember and a key figure in development of the 1972 reforms by the panel headed by Sen. George McGovern presence t (induct Educational Session Mrs. Wexler confirmed that a number of commission members were holding an educational session in Boston Hus weekend with a group of professors. Represents All Elements My guess is that this is an extremely commission, representing all elements of the party and determined lo work together in uniting the party," he said in a telephone interv lew Duke presiAlthough the dent is doing extensive fieldwork, he denied he is using the commission to do groundwork for a 1976 presidential bid, declaring there are a lot easier ways to do that.,. n While Strauss declined to discuss the matter publicly, some of those dose to him are known to feel that development of an ideological party would be cal disaster They a politi- that would nanow its base. particular significance tn the In the middle is Sanford who contends that talk about a factional struggle is "Washington paranoia |