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Show ytfiffnni A , tjpmipmft'mym Anjhiri)rJ yra Gold Fever: Hijackers Move In On Shipments itsa fra ,vt (Editor's note. An act gc d it i9na! for huacktrs to move m Ano move m recent months as th s secd tney have In a series reta$ ) -- rivj r By BILL SURFACE One morning m nonhead London, a diner stopped hi armed bank tiuck on Bo" ling Green Lane to permit one of its two guards to deliver a bag of silver bullion worth only $14 to a jewelry company. Then the driver proceeded" to move his truck around the corner to avoid blocking traffic. Piecisely at the time the guaid was due to return, the other guaid, who had remained ih the truck, responded to tlie familiar code of two short knocks on the rear door and opened it to let his companion in. Instead, the guard and driver were suddenly blinded by a chemical sprayed nom a gun, beaten over the heads with dubs, and then quickly bound and blindfolded with adLesre tape. The other guard, who also had been beaten and blindfolded as he wa returning to the truck, was pushed in on top of the two men and the captors drove off in the vehicle. Minutes later, they unloaded its cargo without saying a word, leaving tneir captives inside. By the time the three men managed to attract the attention of a woman by baking the truck's sides, the hijackers with 144 gold bars weighhad escaped ing 1.8 tons and valued at more than $2,100,000 on the official market. ,This type of incident is now occurring with disquietening frequency. As the woildwide mania to hoard gold increases, black marketeers have found that the fastest and most profitable way to or acquire gold is simply to steal it while it is being arrange for its theft transported by governments, banks, or mining and refining companies. One gold and silver bullion bar valued at $9,960 was even stolen from th heavily guarded U.S. Assay Office in San Francisco. None of these parties care to discuss such robberies and further dramatize their vulnerability to hijackers. Typical- - Expel Franklin Park, 111., foui gunmen wealing Halloween masks handcuffed 12 employees in a restroom ar.d hauled away gold (plus some silver) valued at $230,000. Simply ponder what has happened to one airline flying from New York's Kennedy International Airport. A gold bar. valued at $40,000 and placed in a sealed in ly, a United States Treasury Department officer, aware that governments alone transport about $30 million of gold through New York each month, bit his lower lip as he pondered my question about gold being hijacked: Lets jut say its an interesting situation indeed. But the disturbing incidence and 3 scope of these thefts can be determined by just considering the vast amount of gold that is being stolen at places where it is refined, distributed, transported, or stored. Not unexpectedly, such hijackings aie particularly common in London, Paris and other cities with legal gold markets. that, although Mr. Justice Fortas violated judicial ethics, there is nothing illegal or even remotely wrong about several Supreme Court justices along with several circuit courts of appeal judges being limited partners in several real estate ventures in Virginia, attractive as A number of practicing lawyers are said to be part of the same enterprises. The fact is, however, that this is something of a departure from the ironclad traditions of the courts as hitherto observed. It would be difficult to conceive ot a real estate gmup composed of such justices as Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis along with circuit court judges such as brothers Learned and Augustus Hand. In the English idiom, it simply wasn't being done. Among other things, it would have been a violation of the tradition of aloofness. Then and now, it is inviolate custom that judges will listen to no discussion of matters before them without attorneys ' for all parties present. Gas Heat Grates By GEORGE C. THOSTESON, M.D. Dear Dr. Thosteson: We have moved to Florida and our modest little frame home has no chimney. When heat is needed, we use small, unvented gas grates in kitchen, living room, bathroom. I think such heat, usually in the mornings and evenings, will be adequate for warmth, but is there any health hazard? If so what, and how serious? I know that in the North there are i ity codes which would not permit the use of gas heating units v ithout vents. Some of our windows are not very 'Mrs. E.R. tight, even when closed. Answer: The hazard is carbon monoxwinide poisoning, and the loosely-fittedow's may still not admit enough fresh air to prevent toxic levels of monoxide. Monoxide is colorless and odorless, and is poisonous in very small concentrations, which is why, in most places, the laws about having vents are so strict. If you are awakp, the principal signs of monoxide are drowsiness ard headache. But if you are asleep, monoxide can be fatal without waking you. Symptoms of monoxide poisoning can occur with concentrations of as little as .01 per cent (100 parts of monoxide per million parts of aii). d TJiis rigidity was applied within the itself. Lower court judges judiciary never discussed with upper court judges matters pending before them since they were interested parties to the extent tiiat they might be reversed. It is not too much to say, therefore, tlidt while many members of the bar are far from suspicious, they are unhappy about bench and members of the bar being engaged in private real estate ventures. A senator may introduce a measure, more than there is room for the in the temple is there room for trading posts in the courts of justice. When any government is unable to provide a place where ail men are satisfied they may find final, honorable judgment in their disputes, the end of that government is not far off. No such question is presented in the current matter; but there are precedents in manners as wrell as morals, and the price is often heavy for precedents set lightly aside. Nn work. But there is a vast difference between Coeds To Present ' Spring Harvest' MUSICAL WHIRL By HAROLD LUNDSTROM by Utah composers. The 1969 search ends Wednesday (28) when the campus chapter of the international music sorority presents the Composers in the Concert Music Hall on the campus at 8 p.m. Because some of the composers have long established enviable reputations as competent musical craftsmen and imaginative composers, the spring harvest of the Composers Concerts can be relied on to be worthwhile. of new compositions The program will begin with Dr. Darwin Wolfords song Of Love and Death. The Utah Symphony premiered Dr. Wol-iorSymphony No. 1 a year ago. A member of the faculty at Packs College in Rexburg, Dr. Wolford, who is also for his many published organ compositions, will be the accompan;vt for his bride of 15 days, Julie, who will sing Of Love and Death. The University concentration of 1 per cent can ause changes in the blood in 15 minutes. It is through these blood changes that monoxide causes death. Be glad that nothing has happened so far. But I suggest that you install some other type of heating unit with a vent. Dear Dr. Tho.stesen: My hushand has tiouble with his eais, says they ring almost all the time. What can be done about this? J.L. No single tieatment will Answer: solve all cases. Some cases can't be solved. But the best information I have on the subject is in my booklet, Ear Noises: Causes and Cures." Send 25 cents in coin and a long, stamped envelope to Dr. Thostesen. In care o? The Deseret News, P.O. Box 1257, Salt Lake City, Utah 84110. of Utah Chamber Choir will sing the Kyrie from Robert Lombardo's Mass. A graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory that he followed with a year of graduate study at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Mr. Lombardo is now doing graduate study with the celebrated Alexei Haieff, at the University of Utah. A graduate university trio that includes Holly Johnston, oboe; David Ashton, clarinet, and Roger Hicks, oboe; will play a premiere performance of David Van Alstynes Supplication. Mr. Van Alstyne began his musical stud'es as a pianist in Los Angeles, and then changed to organ at BYU under Prof. Parley Belnap. For one summer he played the recitals at the LDS Hyde Park Chapel in London while serving in the LDS British Mission. He later studied organ with Dr. Robert Cundick, Tabernacle organist, and is currently a composition student with Mr. Haeiff. A newly-forme-d group, the Utah Composers Quartet will play Stanley Members of the Funioelli's Quartet. quartet are Barbara Stewart and Janet Groesbeck, violins; Majorie Hall, viola; and Sidney Baker, cello. A native of New Jersey. Mr. Funi-celhas been at the University of Utah for the past three years. A percussionist, Mr. Funicelli also plays classical guitar. ee li self-taug- May-hew- 1 t JL-- University of Utah. Loa B. Lund, soprano, will be featured singing four new songs by James Prig-morone of the youngest and most performed Utah composers. The songs are: and Winter, Spring, Summer, Morning Rain. Mr. Prigmore, conductor for the University Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT), has twice won first place in composition in the Utah Academy of Arts, Letters, ard Sciences competition; served as music director of the University music production that toured South America; and wroe a symphony, commissioned by the U.S. Army. He is a former student of Dr. Leroy J. Robertson and Prof. Ardean Watts. The Composers Concert will close with Bonnie Powelson playing Ricks Knud-ser- s Aztec Rondo for Piano." A graduate of the University of Utah, Mr. Knudscn has studied composition with Dr. Helen Folland and Dr. Robertson. lie has studied piano with Gladys Gladstone, Oscar Wagner, and Dr. Reid e, Nibley. by Brickman l mo VU ANYONE Little ' to come happened together and jelled like a dessert. Phillip Lee and I happened to be hiking by the dye plant. A barrel of the dye happened to be green. One Mr. Jones thing Phillip had was imagination. He suggested that w eT roll the barrel down the hill to see what happened. If it spilled into the creek and turned the drinking water green, it would be a tribute to the mayor who happened" to be Irish. -. c.- "1 ' Besides, the green barrel was the one that was closest to the hillside. Just or two would send it plunging down the hill. It burst at the bottom like a water-'.,- ! filled balloon being dropped from a hotel window. And the creek looked like a Technicolor picture of the Green River. It The Paris negotiators are dramatically close to a military settlement The big obstacle, which may hold up a peace for months, will be a pr'Jtical settlement The search for a political strategy, more than anything else, is what is bringing President Nixon and President Thieu to Midway Island for their June 8 mid-Pacif- meeting. The President denied press reports that resistance from our South Vietnamese allies had precipitated the meeting. Relations between Washington and Saigon are better, he indicated, than at any time since the bombing halt. In fact, he said, the South Vietnamese not only are willing to discuss a political settlement but are secretly studying a consitutional amendment which would permit Communists to vote in a national election. President Thieu would, however, also like an amendment to extend his presidential term from four to seven years. Despite the optimistic outlook for a Vietnam settlement, Nixon repeated to GOP leaders that he is prepared for an about-fac- e if the peace negotiations break down. . r; , . was beautiful! A couple of green kids like us never gave a second thought to the dye being not exactly pure. The doctor, who came down from the city about once every two . weeks, said the water wouldnt be fatal, but it would have a south of the border reaction on the consumer. But luckily, the fellow who took care of the waterworks noticed that water be V fore it reached the reservoir. He diverted the stream bed until the dye could be removed and all of the trace of green gone. Well, the townspeople had more to ry talk about than the Saturday train that,p . passed through town. The town marshal was no Sherlock' Holmes, but then the case of the green water wasnt too difficult to solve, either; I ' He caught us both There was talk about among the merry wives of my home town that the f two of us would probably end up at best ir, in the electric chair . . members of the lTi green-hande- d. Dillinger gang. I didnt turn out too well, but Phillip is now vice president of a big television network. f . The town board held a meetmg, and , at the conclusion the two of us were sentenced to cut the town hall lawn for the rest of generation gap shiinker. It was called a woodshed! hee Some hard never smart philospher said that" never killed anyone . . . but I saw anyone philosophizing either! die from over- - BIG TALK The decision to make the speech, munist fire, it might have made it appear that lie was reacting to military piessiae. White House national security adviser the reaction was to the GOP moderately good. Kissinger warned, however, that ihere be no immediate lesponse from Hanoi. will A It is going to take the Communists two or three months to revise their strategy, he predicted. Only then can we see whether conciliation is going to work. ' i i n lie said, was made on April 20. He didnt want to tiy for peace while Soutli Vietnamese cities were under Com- goslavia , if Wit's End For the first time, he said, the Japanese leaders supported the Unitea Slates position on Vietnam. Wen in Yu- pale ? . ; if. Speaking in confidence, he told them that he had held up his peace proposals almost three weeks because of the Communist attacks and shellings of South Vietnamese cities. boasted t the summer. Then we were taken by our parents over to the building I mentioned . . . the It is important to note, he said if we should be rebuffed we sternly, have other options. Kissinger . ' ' except in Sweden. 27 1 reservoir. r. leaders that, outside of the Communist bloc, the President's proposals had received a favorable response everywhere -- Ine 9oid country. ' . This particular day was the mayor's' birthday. It was Saturday and the plant was closed. But there were some barrels ol dye in the yard. Then a lot of cir-- c u mstances just the proposal to come from Saigon. It would be better to let the idea come from Thieu and Ky, he said, referring to South Vietnams president and vice president. Meanwhile, the Rand Corporation and Hudson Institute, two of the nation's biggest policy planners, have drafted detailed projections for an American withdrawal. Henry mf er SyndleaUt, 's at USU ; she is currently studying with Frederic Dixon. She is a music major scholarship student at the A the small society tow n . .r- - The dye plant is what I wanted to tell you about. It was built on a side hill of. the canyon. And down on the canyon floor was the creek that fed the small and replacing them with South Vietnamese troops this year. But he would like w Deseret News Music Editor There is one harvest that comes in the spring! It is the annual search by the Coed Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon at the University of Utah for the harvest composer, he Is currently orking on an opera to a libretto written by Michael Sassle of Haiv ard. Sandra Peterson will be the guest soloist for a performance of Jane Theme and Variations for Piano." From Logan, Miss Mavhew is a former student of Prof. Irving Wassetman, A darkness. President Nixon WASHINGTON has confided to Republican congressional leaders that he would like to begin withdrawing American troops from Vietnam money-change- . hand-pumpe- By DREW PEARSON and JACK ANDERSON death. L But back in mediev al times w hen I was a kid. theie was a building to take caie of such things . . . narrow the gap. My home town was small. It was so . small, in fact, that when the old sendee station burned down, it meant that hall of the industrial area . was gone. The other half was a dye" plant. The Ure al-- o destroyed the street light in fiont of the service station and that meant the whole downtown area was in Withdrawal Plans To GOP From the standpoint of the ltigants, an upper court is a court of last resort. The cases heard are a matter of utmost importance to all of the parties, and for some, literally a matter of life and no question of ethics or morals are presented, such a pattern is a departure from punctilious judicial manners as understood in the lawyers idiom, since the mind of man runneth not to the contrary. Of course, various senators and representatives avail themselves of honorariums and even outright grants from foundations. Perhaps they should not, since they too must render judgments on policy as a matter incident to their daily In ' Theie's always been a generation gap. Nixon Outlines leg roll, compromise, amend, or trade it; he is a trader in the political market place. A judge may do none of these tilings because he, in effect, is the last remedy when all customs of the market place have failed. While Bv HARRY JONES MERRY-GO-ROUN- D the legislative and judicial areas of operation. The chambers under the Capitol Dome are arenas; the courts are sacred temples of justice. ERNEST CUNEO YOUR HEALTH Those Unvented TOMORROW; Smupglm N The Mayor un-li- From Our Courts - u in Aruba. Police did recover 14 of tire gold bars in Aruoa and, in doing so. made that case an exceptional one. There is so much coordination between the hijackeis (some of whom are known to be affiliated with the Mafia) and gold dealers operating as fences that only an infinitesimal amount of the stolen gold is ever found or identified. Much of the gold, one Treasury agent told me, is hijacked on order for men who frequently operate offrom impressive mahogany-panelefices. The beauty of such arrangements, a from die seller's viewpoint, is that, stolen stock certificates, bonds, or currency, gold can rarely be traced. Frequently there are no identifying marks on the gold bullion when it is stolen. Even when there aie marks on gold bars denoting their purity and origin, men involved in prearranged thefts usually have melted off all such identification by the time enforcement agencies enter the case. Once stolen gold has been "cleaned up and safely delivered to a bullion dealer, it is, as the saying goes, as good as gold. canvas bag. disappeared on a flight fiom New York to Aruba. Shortly afterwards, two armed men pushed their way ino the arlines eargo office in New York, took two gold bars valued at $23,376 and seemingly vanished. Such robberies aie equally fiequent at almost any large airport where gold is transported. Tak for example, Canada. Two men wearing Air Canada parkas diove an airline's truck to the cargo section of Winnipegs airport, presented what looked bke the necessary documents, and took an shipment of refined gold (value: $207,000) shortly before the actual Air Canada officials appeared to transship the gold. At Montreal International Aiiport, five masked gunmen overpowered guards and customs officers and took $91,000 worth of gold bars that had just arrived from Nicaragua. gler arrested by U.S. Customs agents. Money-Change- rs The resig-natio- n WASHINGTON (NANA) of Mr. Justice Abe Fortas has left all quarters of Washington stunned and none more so than the bar associations. The pattern of compensation outside of judicial office has necessarily raised the same question as to the legislative and executive branches These raise delicate questions in general, and ticklish situations in some. By and large, however, the judiciary is held to higher standards than the other branches. As former President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft declared 40 years ago, not only must justice be meted out by the courts but the courts must sustain the belief of all of the people that the courts are above reproach. It is ior this reason that justices are lequired to avoid even the appearance of acts which might shake the faith of the people in them. Up until quite recently, this resulted in a virtual withdrawal by high ranlring jurists from ordinary social life. On the few occasions when they did dine out, it was ironclad social custom that any conversation even remotely related to matters before the court were scrupulously avoided. It is generally conceded by the bar Example-- : A jet carry mg nine gold bats fiom London landed in Frankfurt without the gold. And 23 gold bars (valued at $!I73,000) placed aboaid a plane leavirg New Yoik, were missing when the plane landed in Caracas, after a step Not far away, at a precious m sals smug- Present For BOAC missing. This type of theft is, to be muc, almost as common as planes being hijacked to Cuba. and escaped with about $100,000 worth of gold bullion. 850 gold coins shown here were hidden in the vest by a A Birthday of gold bul- aiiliuei that leit London with six gold bars on a nonstop flight landed in Beirut only to have air freight personnel discover that the gold was Eailier, a gold-silve- The crates lion had ostensibly disappeared amid 3) airline employees within minutes aftc arriving in Miami on a Pam Am jet from San Salvador. But such lobberies have been occurring so repeatedly in the United States that some enforcement agencies created r specialized squads to investigate them. It is not difficult to see why such squads aie needed, for example, in just one area of Illinois. During working hours, four men wearing ski masks blasted a hole in the rear of a prec'ous metals distributors building in Elk Grove. Ill . 5 Ot,b OUR MAN JONES thieves in diverting gold without, apparently, ever bring seen committing the crime. Belore the FBI investigated 'he case, tluee 21 MEWS, Tuesday, May 27, 1969 For sheer ingenuity, it is difficult to surpass the schemes o( some gold For example, two men wearing carnival masks stopped an armed truck hauling 167 gold bars in a suburb of Paris, pushed the guards and driver into a ditch, and stole the gold. Aside fiom that of the insurance companies, the reaction, m effect, was: Ii happens all the time. I) DESERET 1 "You'll have to say this for it has modern dancing lot of caused a torque!" From photos taken by (.tonal V. McNeeiy tor th Oeseret News' pop Jar daily Baby Birthday leatura. itiiliiiiiiim!itiiii:!tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iit:ii;!iiiii |
