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Show lub Probe Links Officers DESERET NEWS Wednesday, October - martialed in connection with the case. Jones served a one-yesentence after being accused of stealing from a service club slot machines it Augsburg, Germany, in 1965. Jones statement said the sergeants who ran the service clubs told him Cunningham, CoL Ferris Hardin, and Sgt. A WASHINGTON (UPI) general, a colonel and the enlisted Armys man were linked in Senate testimony today to an alleged slot machine skimming racket at service clubs on U.S. Army bases in Germany. '';-tv - f5 ' V avg ar The same general, Maj. Gen. William A. Cunningham III, now retired, also was accused for the second time of squelching an investigation of service club irregularties. A staff irvestigator of the Senate Permanent Investiga- Maj. William O. Wooldridge were given a slice of slot machine rakeofls which Jones said averaged $3,000 to $7,000 a week. tions subcommittee read testimony by Staff Sgt. Ed Jones, the only member of an alleged ring of eight to a dozen sergeants who has been court- - Heads New Cunningham was then com- manding general of the 24th Infantry Division at Augsburg. Hardin was Lis chief of staff and Wooldridge was the divi sion's sergeant major. This was a year before Wooldridge was named the first sergeant major of thp Army. Jones testified Tuesday at a dosed session of the Senate group. The transcnpt of lus testimony was read m open session today. It show ed that senators questioned Jones closely when he mentioned the name of Cunningham, Hardin and Woo- were told this went to higher ups, and like I say. the name of Gen. Cunningham was mentioned and also Sgt. A9 1969 1, We Maj. Wooldridge." He said that duung a meeting of tiie seigeants someon mentioned that Hardin might get too inquisitive." Jones added; One of the sergeants . . . sioke up and said, 'Don't worry about hint. He's being taken care of. An Army officer testified today that a leader in the clique of sergeants who ran the alleged service clubs theft ring told him he regularly bought reassignment to ins West German post by bribing ldridge. Jones said he was a low", man in the ring and did not see any money-givepersonally tc the general, the colonel or the sei geant major. But he said his colleagues mentioned it to him repeatedly. Pentagon cleiks. butes not only to pneumocon"black lung iosis but The benefit payments for victims of "black lung would be the first suen ledeial progiam in history. Senators Okay Aid To Stricken Miners - A WASHINGTON (API federal-statpaysystem of ments foi coal miners disblack lurg" abled by written by the Senate to the Coal Mine Safety bill by a vote. ADVERTISEMENT and others , Williams, ended a thiee-dastalemate over the legislation. e FALSE TEETH y n That Loosen Need Not Embarrass now Sponsors said they weie confident the measuie c an be passed and sent to the i louse today . lt would establish for the first time controls over dust levels in mines. Dust contn- - 91-- 0 Adoption of the piopcr-a- l made by Sens. Jennings RanVa., Hanison A. dolph, D-- Dont keep worrying whether your false teeth are goinx to come loo&e at tl e wrong time For more secur-U- v and more eomlort. Just sprinkle a ltie FSTEETH on your plates. FASTEETH holds false teeth firmer longer Makes eating easier. Its not ac id No gooev, pasty, gummv taste Dentures that fit are essential to health Pee vour dentist regularly. Get FAST EETH at ail aru counters. Army Agency Col. Henry H. Tuft3, for- mer commandant of the Military Police School at Fort Gordon, Ga., will head a newly created Army agency to tighten control over activities of its Criminal Investigation Division. The move is in connection with reported irregularities in servicemens clubs.' Russ SS9 Presents , I Big Threat . ..,3 , m? o nr tpr.mfrKL23.VW. ijir VFfftUfir WASHINGTON (UPI) U.S. intelligence indicates the Soviet Unions giant new multiple warhead missiles will be accurate to within a quarter of a mile of their targets, according to testimony pub- i d JH) jei jjj nr jhestj. lished today. Lt. Gen. A. D. Starbird, system manager for the Safe- antiballistic guard - g- missile t.& (ABM), told a House Appropriations Subcommittee this is the intelligence communitys forecast on what Moscow will be able to do with her SS9 missile, carrying three 5 megaton warheads, in the mid-70- HE' civ up a $21.3 billion defense procurement bill, including funds to press development of what the United States calls MIRV a multiple independently still; targetable reentry vehicle. SMALL WARHEADS The U.S. MIRV, unlike the Soviet multiple missile, would carry small warheads of about one megaton. Testimony on probable accuracy of thp independent heads of the U.S. missiles was censored from the appropriations subcommittees published hearings. .The House Armed Services Committee, meantime, cited the Soviet multiple missile threat in support not only of the U.S. MIRV program, but of the controversial Safeguard ABM for which system, todays bill carrried a $746 million authorization! The committee, in a majority report on the annual procurement bill, viewed the SS9 as evidence the Soviets may be gearing for a possible knockout punch in which U.S. missiles would be destroyed in their silos without ever being used. BOLSTER CAPACITY MIRV, with its smaller warheads, was described along with the ABM as necessary to bolster this countrys retaliatory capacity and thus to head off any threat of a Soviet r rrer 3 O 'XvIuT W s. Starbirds testimony was published as the House took t O t&r O v'W4 O 01 A OTJT 323M ", vfrilr c- iIV r.yin i i Ma'lS USflr I fit 1! i! 0Cr.WilniE Teeh i. Chv- (u 0 1 VJ . Yl'il JHi Mr yTXQmK i.er (92P) iigw vUS 4 I! :&f' V4 G S05J?ID 'iEEurnBp- - O3EiE0I. fLrfw. o - J JR uBT f Ml 3 tr. 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