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Show 2A October 20, 1969 DESERET NEWS, Mon day, Ship F or Freedom Jumps - Threat T o Coast Jiri L.OS ANGELES (AP) :ohronaMk says he had for a long time to seek freedom in America. UPI, AP Reports NEW ORLEANS Tiopical storm Laurie reached near - b'ding 1S time n --Prague, he took a machinists 'course. Finally, he was able tousign on as a motor machinist on a Czech freighter. His ship stamed slowly to Japan and then to Los hurricane strength today and from a spot 350 miles of New Orleans its blustery path speeded toward the vulnerable coast of Louisiana and Texas. south-southea- st ciii In a noon EDT advisory, the New Orleans Weather Bureau said Lauries winds had increased to an estimated 60 to 75 miles an hour near the center. Hurricane winds are 75 miles an hour or above. People inniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii;ii!i!iiiiiiiii!iinniiiiiiii Angeles for stop before Peru. a brief refueling setting out for I ; t 5 J Vokroualik approached them on the dock and asked for political asylum. : "I plan my freedom for nine the ji e a r s, told newsmen If ter. I know of what it is, ijie United States, from my history books and from my radio. I know it is good place ihere people have liberty, i In hesitant English he said hi j passion for reaching the United States was kindled when, at 17, he found an American history book on a back shelf in a library. And 5the passion flamed when he dieard about America on '.Radio Free Europe. of The Soviet occupation Czechoslovakia in August 1S88 'confirmed his plans, he said. Authorities turned Vokroual-- J Jk over to police custody in iadjacent Long Beach, pending an immigration hearing. S d Hof American servicemen H 3 " c Kermedy-Arisioil- e COLES WIDOW WEDS world the Jacqueline Onassis wedding. Meanwhile the couple observed the anniversary quietly at their New York apartment. map - a year ago. -S- Nat Coles King widow, Maria, has married Gary Devore, a television pro- inger ducer, Disclosure of the ceremony Friday, attended only by the families of the bride and groom, was made Sunday in Los Angeles. The former Maria Hawkins met Cole in 1948 while she was singing with Duke Ellingtons band. She is now hostess of a Los Angeles television show. FIRST ANNIVERSARY -Rof Nidri, Greece, gathered today in the villages main restaurant to celebrate the first anniversary of the esidents INDIANAPOLIS, IND. (AP) Harry Brodey took a 90 ride Sunday on the hood of a car. He came out of it with cuts on his hands and possibly a gray hair or two. of Brodey, 54, president Brodey & Brodey, Inc., a scrap metal firm, was working at his office Suntav when three men strolled up te him. He asked them what they r anted, and they ran. Brodey chased them outside and leaped onto the hood of their car as they jumped inside. WANTED TO STALL I thought they wouldnt start the engine with me on the hood, and that maybe I could buy time this way until the police arrived, he said. Seven Brodey employes working on a loading dock heard the car screech away, saw the boss on the hood, and called police. Brodeys head was toward the windshield. He grabbed a windshield wiper in each hand and held on. Police gave chase and said the car reached speeds of up to 90 m.p.h. as they pursued it. FLEE ON FOOT Then a train blocked the way and the men stopped and backed up to turn around. The ASTROS LAND YI GOS The Apollo 11 astronauts left full of Yugoslavia today praise for the warmth and hospitality accorded them during their two days in the only Communist country they have visited on their We have seen world tour. your children and we like Neil A. Armstrong them, told a crowd of Yugoslav and U.S. Embassy officials gathered at Belgrade airport to see them off. Fellow astronauts Edwin E. (Buzz) Aidrin and Michael Collins were no less enthusiastic. to end World War I . . . In 1944 American troops landed at Leyte Gulf in the Philipr, pines and Gen. Douglas who had been forced to leave the island two and a I half years earlier, said, In 1964 have returned Mac-Arthu- ... President Herbert Hoover died at the age of 90. former DEATHS George Albert Blowers, a former director of Export-ImpoBank, died in New York Sunday of a heart ailment. He was 63. Former R e p u blican Congressman Antoni Sadlab of Connecticut died Saturday at Rockville Hospital after being admitted for a checkup. He was 61. rt The storms velocity had increased 10 to 20 miles an hour in the past three hours. The storm also was better organized and expected to reach hurricane force during the afternoon. change to a northerly course is indicated tonight and conditions appear to be developing to cause the storm to decrease in forward speed the advisory late tonight, said. A A helpless tanker wallowing in seas whipped by Laurie was taken in tow for a haz- ardous trek toward calmer Gulf of Mexico waters. Coast Guard officials said was Cutter Diligence seas plowing through toward Tampa with the disabled Mission Santa Cruz. the car struck a parked car and the men fled on foot. Still on the hood, Brodey pointed to the fleeing men and police ran after them. Two got awa. ( but an offi cer brought back a third. Brodey said he was the driver. I'm sure he was the driver." he said. I was staring in his face for 10 minutes through the windshield. Charles W. Anderson, 22, of was charged Indianapolis, with tmveious trespassing, ad battery with a.i assail autc .vbile, leaving the scene of a property damage accident, reckless driving and fleeir.g a police officer Nixon Considering Viet Cease-Fire- ? Continued From First Page of the chairman Harris, Democratic National Committee, called for speeded up troop withdrawals and Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, said United Nations Secretary-GenU Thant should neeral gotiate a political settlement of the war. Harris spoke on the NBC radio - television program Meet the Press and Muskie appeared on ABCs Issues and Answers. Harris said Nixon acknowledged the war cant be won militarily and added that the President ought to get about getting us out of it on a much more rapid and systematic basis. I think the key word is the Oklahoma systematic, Democrat said. Muskie said U Thant would be a natural to get the Saigon government and the Na-- t i o n a 1 Liberation . Fron- t- political arm of the Viet Cong together on a coalition for South Vietgovernment nam. Backers of Nixon Administration Vietnam policy, led bv President Spiro T, Vice Agnew, launched a counteroffensive over the weekend against effects of last WedneMoratorium sdays Vietnam and those planned for days ahead. Agnew Sunday blasted lead- ers of the movement dissidents anarchists SecWASHINGTON (AP) retary of Defense Melvin R. Laird will not spend this year an additional $1 billion for new ship construction proposed by the House Armed Services Committee, a ranksaid defense official ing -t today. . .I" Lairds decision, revealed WIFE ILL -wife of Sen, Edward W. tvho under- J J Brooke, went surgery last Monday, E Chad a bladder tumor, accord-- J s ing to the senator. Her con-- " Edition is much more serious ! than earlier thought, Brcoke Msaid Saturday of his wife, I Remlgia. She is very ill. M BROOKES SThe 5 by Pentagon Comptroller Robert Moot, appeared to be a mild rebuff to the powerful chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. L. Mendel Rivers, But Laird went about it in a delicate way. At Rivers urging, the House voted to authorize $3.5 billion lor the current fiscal year for m . i COMPOSER JAILED. -jTheodorakis, who com-- ? ! posed the music for the movie Zorba the Greek, has been jjMikis antiwar protest hard-cor- e as and professional who are being an effete encouraged by corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as in- tellectuals. But like President Nixons promise that he would not be affected by demonstrations against the war, Agnews attacks were likely to spur Moratorium efforts. leaders to great- er O a ON THIS DATE In 1918 the Germans accepted President W oodrow Wilsons terms o Shipbuilding 'Fund' Too Much, Laird Says - in pumpkin pies to sell so she can buy gifts for the GIs. Although her first customers were friends and neighbors, ? Sword of the home-mad- e prod- 3ucts spread rapidly. Now Mrs. busi- j Slick is doing a booming ness. The telephone rings J constantly, she says. i here. Theoiiorakis, regarded as a leftist by the had been bangovernment, ished to a mountain village with his wife and two children Vietnam. Mrs. Hazel Slick, 56, bakes bread and apple or C' event that has changed their lives and put them on the circulating A MORALE BOOSTER 3 who believes grandmother antiwar protests ' do more harm than good is up to her elbows in a kitchen cabinet I movement to raise the morale 1 sent to a prison camp by the Greek govmilitary-backeernment, according to reports d 3 i ' Czech seaman Jiri Vokrouhlik seeks political asylum after leaving ship. M'hen jt ' AP Wire Photos immigration insp etors had finished their ro'.Jne check the Sunday of the Vitkovice first Czechoslovakian ship to (Jail here in several years fj p 1 nJ. ku?S, ( ; . dark-haire- He's A Little Grayer mile-an-ho- 2'jharined -- 90 M.P.H. ON THE HOOD Laurie Is a new shipbuilding but the Senate stuck with the Nixon Administration figure of $2.3 billion. The is being threshed out in a Senate-Hous- e conference. matter Moot, discussing gons the Cl wm wm Penta- efforts, said Laird appreciates having the authorization to spend the extra $1 billion but said the - secretary has decided against requesting the actual appropriations which,, would make authorization the spendable. Moot said the House figure can still be used as the basis for an appropriations request next year. v : j' r t j' My. mm wm ' ' u Boy Area Police Pool Efforts In Search For 'Zodiac' Killer SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -Pfive San Francisco bay area counties meet today to pod information on a killer who calls himself Zodiac, has bragged of five and warns there slayings may be more. Thomas Lynch made a personal plea for the Zodiac to surrender, promising to see that he gets help and that all of his rights are protected. Vallejo Police Capt. Wade Bird believes the killer will prove to be a genius who got so far out he went over the edge. Wade has been pursuing the cipher-writinslayer since a teen-ag- e couple was found shot to death in a lovers lane last December. The next two victims were young women killed in attacks on July 4 near Vallejo and Foi t. 27 near Lake Berry ess a olice from Authorities said psychiatrists would participate in an 2 effort to find some clue to the I- killer in the strange, cryptic notes he has mailed to news- papers and police. San Francisco's homicide detail was beefed up during the weekend to handle more "than 1,000 tips phoned in by the public. g in Napa County. In each case the male companion of the victim was seriously wounded. A massive search for the killer got under way a week ago after a cab driver was shot to death in San Francisco. The killer mailed a bloody piece of the victims shirt to a San Francisco newspaper and warned that his next target may be a school bus full of children. 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