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Show mug a 41? 4 & gp' Voi. 207, No. 122 Salt Lake City, Utah Tuesday Morning August IS. AXllINGT C end of the week 3nd no easier than Wednesday White Hou-- e sources said he would make a television speech and a detaded documentary response to charges against this administration hi - The W atergate prosecution team stepped up it- - pj(.e Monday. accusing President ion ut illegally withholding ital emnn.il iMder.ee on I he bugging caudal and launching a .second grand jury uiquirv into related dirty tncKs The twin actions both in I S District Court came as ton himself was deep in preparations for a public response to the flood of Watergate revelations at Senate hearing', now m teeess until lhe White House indicated ion would speak out his first public statement on Watergate .since May 22 by e Disclaims Legal Right Special prosecutm Arohibald Cox in a sternly worded legal brief filed with the court, aigued that ton had no Ugal or onstitutiona! nght to withhold from the Watergate grand jury tape recordings of runt mootings with key aides ih.it could prove or disprove charges of gro's misconduct ' and criminal wroncdoing in the White House The President is not above the law," Cox said m his bnof Tnhke a monaich. the Picsident is not the sover-oig" e Di-t- ru e Has An bsolute Right' contrary, Cox said the Picsident has "no absolute nght to withhold evidence merely on his own p m the Watergate case whe'e the fate of hr c losest aides and also Nixons own "political power and future pace in hi'tory are at staxe can 'lhe ved of confidentiality not be used as a cloak when there is reason to believe that 'cuous criminal wrongdoing nuy have oc curred " box -- aid anh-file- 111 and the Nixon administration have domed the charge- - But White House memos submitted at the Senate s Watergate l.tarings indicated tli.it high administratum il fu nil- - were involved m the iimtroversial set in men! unitraiv to sworn testunony tnfme anolhei Si n ate committee las' year -- ea-e-- oi say-so,- -- -- la-- I It was grand ;iry alleged oitei oe us im ! !T ( ase lhe new grand jury was expected to loth into possible peijuiy in connection uiih the FIT case, as well as pos-ibsit Rage 2. ( oliinin expt t it o that II is spi e ,d would lotus ito'1.0 v on the try ln!ern.t!no,,i! ( cot- - and Telegraph (oil) (1FT) in 1471 to hell) under wnte the 1972 GOD Nation.. Convention to the tune of MlMMum in foi favoralrlt' settlement of throe major federal antitrust actions then pending against the cmiglunieiate fr To the 1 Jr ' lanes -- solute nght to withhold confidential communications "m the public interest 4-4- lrur Ten Dial argument- - en Cox - a1' to obtain the nine tope- the Wain gate gland jury me -- died did Au tin foie Chief I s Judt Jobe J Sima The c.i-is certain in be duithd fiuallv by the Nupu me Cum' An hour before two t p (ox d the bnef. Sim,, uine in a new M member grand jurv a t ox - 'upae-- t to" con-mWaieigate ' -- ptnoii can'll re it the !i wonte and eight men t U vtui that the ioitplo mu liga i turn nnctM will 'he nil is months of a federal gi aim jmy tenure Nixon refused last Tue-da- y to honor a Cox subpoena for the tatie recordings on j president tlk first subpoena m 166 years contending he had the ab- JM 1073 e Nixon By Jane Denison United Pres- - International Ay le telephone Astronauts Jet Inside Shylab llolsTUN skylab's pilots jetted around their living room-sizeworkshop Monday m a Buck Rogers-tvpflying' device that futuie astronauts may use foi work outside their (lil) d e spue Alan I, Bean and dark K Lousma took turns slowly flying the maneu- vering unit around inside the foot experiment room while Owen k Gumntl looked on The unit toes 14 mt logon propelled thnisteis and is guided bv a set of hand controls mmh like rnotorcute hamlgiips The thing s verv e s to fe Lousma said 1 Steel Firms, Auto Concerns Planning Price Increases By R Gregory Nokes Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Several steel makers and aulo manufacturers Monday announced intention to seek increased prices, indicating that the new Phase 4 program means a new price spiral for the American consumei n Administration officials already have expressed alarm over a continuing big jump in food pices, which wore released early from the price Reeve Armeo Steel Corp . of Middletown Ohio, and Chrysler Corp, were among the first of tne big nonfood companies to give official notice that they are Peking price hikes undei Phase 4 winch began The Food Front Page 2 Monday . ending the pnee freeze Armeo informed Phase 4 adniinist ratals ,t wants to increase puces on sheet y Grand Jury Ready By Robert A Dobkin Associated Press Writer - ANNAPOLIS. MD Federal investigators sifted through the voluminous records of Vice President Spiro T Agnevv's two yeais as Maryland governor Monday as U S. Attorney George Beall prepared testimony for a special grand jury Three agents from Beall's ofticc in Baltimore combed through 130 boxes of subpoenaed documents under lock and Key here in the Maryland Hall of Rec- Matz were reported by sources to have told prosecutors that Agnew was involved in kickback schemes s The Washington quoted unnamed sources Monday as saving .it least two other unidentified contractors have told the prosecutors that they made cash payments to Agnevv m hopes of obtreatment in lhe taining preferential awarding of governmer' consulting conStar-Slew- tracts The newspaper ords said that it is not See Page 4. Column 3 Grand Jury Readied special grand jury in Baltimore is expected to begin taking testimony later this weeK concerning Agnevv and a former assistai... Jerome B W niff 1 mler Phase 4 pruc- - can be eased to cover higher costs on a dollar for dollar basis but m,i not he increased for a profit The Nixon administration has predicted substantial price increases at the start of Phase 4 because companies which were not allowed to uise pi ices dunng the ireee will seek to recover heir costs m Phase 4 -- Administrators Prepared The spokesman for the Cost of Liv ing Cuunid said Phase 4 administrator- - were ul price prepared for aggressive increase requests during the first days of the new program com- A Reports said the Aviaco Airlines plane exploded and plummeted to earth as it was about to land after a midmorning flight from Madrid 320 mdes away Span- jetliner crashed near the fogbound airport of this northwestern Span'xh port city Monday, killing all 79 passengers the six crew members, said and airline officials Aviaco Airlines denied reports that five persons were killed on the ground at Montrove, five miles from Alvedra Airport. when the Caravclle jet fell to the ground short of the runway Reports ( onfliel an line spokesman said one man in the ciash area was slightly injured when the plane broke up. sending debns from French-buil- t the aircraft over an area about the size of a football field An Europa news agency had reported that the five persons were killed when the plane hit a number of houses But another Spanish news agency. Ctfra. said the aircraft hit only two empty houses The agency made no mention of deaths Witnesses said the plane made three attempts to land at the airport in the thick fog then d'ppcd and one wing truck a tree and exploded The plane hur- -t into flames as it crashed imposed for all for beef end on on 12 Lntil President Nixon imposed tiie freeze on June 1". prices dunng the first half of 197.! were increasing at a rate unparalleled since the Korean Mar Wash- -- golf- HOUSTON Sheriffs deputies unearthed four more bodies from shallow sandy graves Monday, bringing to 27 the victims in the Houston slayings case The Houston case has claimed more lives than any mass murder m recorded US history, surpassing the 2a migrant farm workers found slain m California two years ago. Labor contractor Juan Corona was convicted and is servinc a life sc Hence m that case of torture-se- Using bulldozers and road graders to near High Island, authori aid all the victims Aviaco officials were Spaniard- - except seven who had fmeign names -- A mother faced her biood of six children one morning "1 want some coopot-alioaround here, she said Noticing the puzzled looks on their faces, she added- "Cooperation means you do what I sav " n Associated Prpbi Wircnhoto ( hief Herman Short Defends Houston Police - Asso:ioed Press ffao Map cation, shows La The seven were identified only Kneuve, P Gugliotta Jr Peterson. Mr and Mr- -. Teske and Cris Te-k- e Their nationalities were not Inown plane erasn loCoruna, Spain. . Toll 27 as Graves Yield 4 More ng j Partly Identified Today's Chuckle Baltimore contractor Lester plow the sand LA COKIN' A. SPAIN (AP) ish twin-engin- e beef ties uncovered the four latest bodies from stretch of Gulf of Mexico a lieach about 60 miles east of Houston g Digging Postponed Monday night, sheriffs of both Jefferson and Chambers counties, where six bodies have been found, announced they had postponed any futthei digging Jefferson County sheriff s officer, e have re('apt C. V Woods said, covered what they said was there Were A through " Meanwhile. Elmer Wayne Henley, a youth who led police to most of the graves, appeared at a court heat- - ing and pleaded with his attorney to get him out of jail "I hate to be put in solitary. Henley told defense lawyer Ed Pegelow ( harged on 5 Counts Henley is charged with five counts of murder and is being held on bonds totaling $5(10 000 "Aint there to get out of on bond" Ain't there someno w vUi.tf Ml Jetliner Crash Kills 85 Mass Transit Gets Boost In Spain Airport Fog In New Law - Other Curbs to End Sept v-- .j mise attempt to ease urban congestion by opening Highway Trust Fund for mass transit improvement. signs $22.9 billion highway bill at White House. Nixon praised compro- - Monday Among nonfood item- - foi which prices ri-quickly are appaiel to the West Coast last week after disclosing he is under investigation for possible violation of tax bribery. extortion and conspiracy laws in connection with an alleged kickback scheme involving Maryland officials By Michael A. Lutz Associated Press AAnter President ''Nixon are expected to e and paper products The price freeze, originally on June 13. was ended Monday sectors of the economy except and petroleum products It will petroleum on Aug 19 and on Mi - iiu Ashoctotcd Press Wireohofo The council and the Internal Revenue 30 days to decide whether to stop or postpone proposed pnee increases by the biggest firms The earliest the big firm pnee mu eases can go into effect is Sept IT flew Sex-Slavi- HaCMtNfc. less than 60 persons, the lumber industry and public utilities-- uicluding firms providing rail, air and bus transportation sen ices Administration officials were womed over lhe effect on Phase 4 of skyrocketing wholesale prices for uncontrolled raw agricultural product- - such as wheat, corn and soy beans Sources dose to the investigation said another judge could receive any indictments from the grand jury and that Blair would not necessarily be the judge to try any eases based on those indictments. He could ask not to take them, No problem: it's not the source said unusual. numocr trucks American Motors earlier had announced it would seek a $55 price hike and Lord Motors said it would make formal notification to the government ot proposed price increases on Tuesday Small and medium sized companies were able to raise their pi ices immediately Monday as long as the increases weie justified by higher costs 700 hugest firois Bui the country s including main steelmakers and must auto nianufaetuiers with our SlOO million in annual sales and revenues have to provide JO duvs advance notice of their intent to raise prices number ol companies are exempt from Phase 4 including firms employing Agnevv Wolff and proposed an average model autos and Corp $71 on 1974 A Ironically, the judge who impaneled the jury last winter and who normally would receive any mdictments is C Stanley Blair. Maryland secretary of state during Agnew's tenure as governor and later the vice president s chief of staff in the first two years of Nixon administration However, it has been only in recent weeks that the investigation has involved Agnevv per-cet- d Phase 4 administrators have not yet decided however on how the public would be informed of proposed price increases by big firms A y A Sen lee will have The material ranged from office logs to official proclamations during Agnew's tenure as governor from 1967 through 196S Of special interest was anything involving Agnew's official relationship with conti actors and campaign contributors Returns to Washington Meanwhile. Agnevv returned to four-daington late Monday from a m Calif Palm vacation Springs. ing Chrysler inn ease of by 1 Investigators Scan Ague ws Records Blair could not be reached for ment steel for autos and appliances way there except they can put me to'1" Henley asked, apparently refernng to being placed in the custody of a relative body Defense attorneys complained Henley was being verballv abused bv othei Inside The Tribune Tribune Telephone Numbers. Page 2 inmates, and the prosecution agreed it would be a good idea if he were placed m solitary confinement State District Court Judge George Walker asked attorneys to put into writfoi a psvehiatrist to ing a request examine Henley mothei, Mary Henley's attended the brief hearing ( rowd Looks On Kin projects Compromise Measure The new highway aid law was a com-- t -. promise between the oil. ga- roadbuilder and automobile lobbyists on the one hand coalition anci the on the other The fund previously has been used primarily to finance construction of the Interstate Highway System which is more than 80 percent complete Under this act. Nixon said at the for the first time signing ceremony, states and localities will have the flexibility they need to set their own transportation priorities " Transportation Secretary Claude S Bnnegar added that planners no longer have to think just highways Now, he said during a news briefing, they will to such albe abie to consider trade-off- s ternatives as buses, exclusive bus lanes po-e- d been spectators clustered See Page The three-yea- r bill begins to provide money for mass transit in its second year. Since the $6 billion fund was started in 1957 from tax revenues on gasoline, lires and trucks this was tne first time Congress had agreed to spend it for anything but highways A sum of $200 million will be available for purchasing buses m the second year of the bill and another $800 milhon can be spent to finance rail systems, including subways, in the third year. In addition to the trust fund money, the bill prov ides $J billion out of the governments general revenue for grants to urban mass transit Henley, "I wanted to see him. because he hasn't seen a doctor He's cold and he isn't being fed enough she said Some WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon Monday signed a milestone $22.9 billion highway aid bill which will tap the highway trust fund to build mass transit systems 2. on the Column 5 40.000-mil- e Tuesday's Forecast Salt Lake City and vicinity y fair, little temperature change. er map is on Page 23 GenerallWeath- to Congress, over $60 billion has spent on the construction of a network of interstate roads recent In v . I years, efforts gained strength m Congress as criticism rose over the growing traffic glut which was paralyzing .raffle m major cities ( . |