njpekerr Penreielhiiuies IFreedoinni RENO, Nev. (AP) A hijacker apparently parachuted to freedom from a commandeered passenger jet after extorting $200,000 from Northwest Airlines with a bomb threat, authorities say. Two of four parachutes ob-. tained by the. middle-aged hijacker from airline officials in Seattle were missing when the plane landed here with four crewmen aboard, the FBI reported today.
"There's no way he could have gotten off in Reno," said Harold E. Campbell special agent in charge of FBI operations in Nevada. "We had the airport covered." Officials at McChord Air Force Base near Tacoma refused to say whether the pilots of three planes that trailed the hijacked Boeing 727 airliner saw any parachutes during the flight. Authorities said the hijacker probably parachuted from the plane sometime after it left Seattle Wednesday night, but apparently there were no witnesses to his escape. An FBI spokesman in Las Vegas said authorities believe the hijacker left the plane by the time it reached Oregon.
He said the theory was based on the crew members' reports of when they lost contact with the hijacker and other information. Thirty-six passengers and two stewardesses had been let off the plane in Seattle. But airline officials said the hijacker locked the remaining four crew members in the co*ckpit after the plane took off again. "He's in the back of the airplane and everyone else is in front," Federal Aviation Ad ministration supervisor Art Wi-bom said during the Seattle-to-Reno flight. The plane made the run at 10,000 feet with its rear stairwell open so the hijacker could bail out if he chose.
At that altitude no oxygen was required. "It would be a very safe drop," said John Wheeler, a Boeing Co. spokesman. "He'd be away from flaps and other engines and go straight down." The FBI's Campbell said to his knowledge no hijacker had ever escaped by parachuting from a plane. Law enforcement officers with dogs combed Reno International Airport and the surrounding area after the plane landed.
There was no sign of the hijacker, the money or any bomb. A stewardess said the hijacker had cylinders which looked like dynamite and wires led to a briefcase he carried. The hijacker, who officials say probably boarded the plane in Portland, took over the jetliner shortly before it was to land in Seattle on a flight from Washington, D.C. A stewardess said he handed her a note, which said he was hijacking the aircraft, and ordered her to relay instructions to officials on the ground that he wanted $200,000 and four parachutes delivered to him when the plane landed. He displayed the briefcase and cylinders to the stewardess, officials said.
The passengers apparently were unaware a hijacking was under way. "The crew just said something might be wrong with the (Continued on Page 2) Route taken by hijacked plane. 0 ICQ WASH. 01. NtVAOA frAt DA Gives Rebuttal; Frazier Case Goes Weather MONTEREY BAY AREA Night and morning low clouds or fog but sunny afternoons.
Little temperature change. Highs Thursday In the mid 50s to low 60s. Lows tonight in the mid 30s to low 40s. Light wind. Temperatures for 24 houri ending at a.m.
today: High 55, low 38. To Jury On Friday asked the jury Wednesday if a killer would have left the vehicle 15c 76 Pages THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 25, 1971 116th Year, No. 277 By CLIFF JOHNSON Sentinel Staff Writer Santa Cruz District Attorney in a place where it obviously would be discovered. Peter Chang admitted to the Chang said there were more jury in John Linley Frazier's than the 26 circ*mstances on his chart that tied Frazier to the murder trial Wednesday that his case was circ*mstantial, but added it was based on "an amaz crime, and told the jury: "If Warden), dyoirds ing, incredible overwhelming number of circ*mstances." The Mouse Who Came To Dinner In rebuttal to Defense At torney James Jackson's sum' mation of Wednesday morning in Redwood City, Chang said the IHlelld lHlstage LBy Cm)s defense tactics in "a rather hopeless case" were to "create By BILL NEUBAUER Sentinel Staff Writer (Continued on Page 2) Meany Stricken WASHINGTON (AP) George Meany, 77-year-old president of the AFL-CIO, was admitted to a hospital early Thursday suffering from what his doctor said was "severe chest pains." a reasonable doubt" and ob fuscate the issues." Probably the most heart warming Thanksgiving But, said Chang, "I want you The love that Gladys has for Mouse, and Mouse for Gladys, Is among the more notable stories of the year at the care center, which provides room, board and knowledgeable medical an surgical aid for wild creatures who are ill, injured or are having other kinds of hard tunes. Dinner in Santa Cruz County to believe this man's guilt for will be shared this afternoon by the rest of your lives, should you find him guilty." Gladys Milewski and her foster son.
Mouse. The dinner will include meat scraps, a serving or two of cot "Its quite unusual, says Jeanne Milewski, "for an op- tage cheese, and a dish of Dr. Marvin Fuchs, said that by the time Meany was taken to the emergency coronary unit possum to adopt a field mouse, but that is exactly what Gladys has done. She's a good mother, Chang showed the jury a chart which listed 26 circ*mstances which pointed to Frazier as the only possible slayer of Dr. Victor M.
Ohta, his wife, Virginia, their sons. Derrick and Taggert, and the doctor's secretary, Mrs. Dorothy Cadwallder. The five were found shot to death in the Ohta's pool on Oct. 19, 1970.
There was no direct evidence of the George Washington Uni versity Hospital the pains had too. She won't let Mouse remain crunchy corn kernels. Gladys has had distemper, you see, and fares best on a diet rich in protein and calcium. The meat scraps and cheese will be served primarily for her benefit. Mouse, who is hale and hearty, will be permitted to nibble disappeared.
in her cage longer than is good Fuchs said a preliminary diagnosis indicated a "possible for him. She knows instinctively that field mice are bom to ramble wild and free, and she flatly spasm in the coronary from Gladys dinner plates if he refuses to let Mouse just sit and 60 chooses, but there will be suf He said a cardiogram showed eat and sleep his way into in th crime because Frazier was "clever and smart," Chang told the eight-woman, four-man jury there were no witnesses Meany's condition is now nor possession of a fat tummy." mal. 4 His pulse, heart beat and ficient corn on hand to fill his stomach to that happy state of repletion familiar to little boys who have been given the turkey Gladys was a dreadfully 1M 'possum when she was delivered and the killer wore gloves. blood pressure are now all normal and he is in no pain at all," the doctor said shortly aft Frazier returned to his home to the wildlife center in August, 1970, by a family that had had drumstick at the feast of feasts. in Soquel, Chang maintained, because "the perfect crime had er noon.
little luck in raising her. Only seven months old, she had acute Fuchs said, however, that be Following the feast in Gladys' cage at the Scotts Valley Zoological Wildlife Rescue Center, mother and son will been done his super-ego did distemper and there was con not allow him to think that his siderable doubt she would friends would turn him in. cause Meany has been "under considerable stress," he ordered that the veteran labor leader be kept in the hospital survive. Frazier vas arrested three days repair to the master bedroom, so to speak, where Gladys, a after the slayings at his home tidy soul, will give Mouse the just over the hill from the Ohta "Her brother did die," Jeanne said. "But Gladys responded well to antibiotics and a diet high in protein and calcium.
Her I te M4 info for several days. Meany returned 'Wednesday mansion. Further, Chang said, the by train from presiding over the AFL-CIO's biennial con teeth have been left weakened defendant left the stolen Ohta station wagon in the Rincon and discolored, but otherwise she shows few other effects of New Jersey state troopers, armed and helmeted, file into Rahway State Prison today where rioting prisoners hold the warden and five guards as hostages. (AP wirephoto) railroad tunnel as a final display of his ego. "Police were swarm sort of thorough washing that has yet to achieve high popularity with the young.
Then with the peace and plenty of America properly 1 a ed, and with all maternal duties done, Gladys will hustle Mouse back to the fields and settle down, as tired mothers sometimes do, for a post-prandial snooze. the disease." Although 'possums have often been derided as a sort of blend vention in Miami Beach, Fla. President Nixon addressed the delegates last Friday. An aide said Meany, who returned from Florida by train, experienced gastric pains while traveling through North ing all over the county chasing that car," Chang said. "And all by Gov.
William T. Cahill's of fore the troopers arrived Thurs RAHWAY, N.J. (AP) Riot helpful it will be requested," of pig and rat, Gladys achieved the while it is in that tunnel ing prisoners held the warden day morning. fice, Hector denied making the What a coup, what a coup." the spokesman said. State troopers and correc comment.
and five guards hostage Thurs It was not known how many Defense Attorney Jackson had day at Rahway State Prison The AP newsman asked Hec tions officers were massed out of the 1,142 inmates at the max and officials said negotiations imum security institution were involved in the riot or how tor: "Are you going to storm the prison?" Hector's reply was, "Yes, we are," the newsman said. much of the prison they con side the prison, but no plan to use them was announced. Earlier, Lt. Gordon Hector, principal spokesman for Col. David B.
Kelly, state police su- were under way with inmates who had seized control of portions of the maximum security institution. trolled. Officials also said they the equivalent of beauty in the 'possum world, and with this beauty there emerged a sparkling personality that delights the hundreds of school children who visit the center. But one day, all of a sudden, Gladys became defensive about her cage, behaving quite as mothers do when guarding young. "The mystery was explained," Jeanne said, "when a field mouse popped out of Gladys' bed as I approached the cage." About 50 helmeted troopers, did not know whether any of New CAB Director Gets Acquainted all armed with shotguns, mas A spokesman for the state the prisoners were armed.
perintendant, was quoted as sed at the entrance to a tunnel saying in answer to an Associ Department of Institutions and Agencies said talks were be ated Press newsman's question that the officers would storm tween prisoners and prison ad the prison. ministrators. "If further help like corridor that leads through the outer wall of the prison into the yard. Newsmen had been kept in a room off the corridor but were evacuated shortly be- However, in a statement is should be needed from con Eleven guards were reported injured, three with stab woands, in the rioting, which began about 10 p.m. during a movie in the auditorium.
Tom Durand, public information officer for the State Department of Institutions and Agencies, said the trouble start Index Page Amusem*nts 24-25 Ann Landers 2 Bridge Column 24 Classified Section 26-29 Comics 23 Crossword Puzzle 23 Editoiial 31 Home and Grounds 14-15 Horosrpe 23 Merry-Go-Round 24 Mostly About People 10 Radio Programs 24 Sports 21-22 Tides 30 Tree 'n' Sea Living 6 TV Programs 24 Vitals 30 Weather 30 By JAY SHORE Sentinel Staff Writer Morrv Lindros. 34. the new sued early Thursday afternoon cerned citizens who might be Observations proved con director of the Community Ac- tion Board (CAB), feels "a little anxious about starting his job lts A Cold Turkey Day clusively that either Gladys had adopted Mouse or Mouse had adopted Gladys. From then on. Jearme made it a habit to set a dish of corn into the cage for Mouse whenever she fed the 'possum.
ed when a prisoner jumped onto the stage and began a Monday. The former Catholic priest, teacher and community worker At El Rio Mobile Home Park Mouse has now foregone the has worked in the East, the South and Southern California, but is unfamiliar with the Santa (Continued on Page 2) Thanksgiving 1971 has been lot he was coming in to lend home owners have agreed to Cruz area and the problems of its minorities and poor- of cold turkey for resident of speech on "the injustice of American society." There were about 600 inmates in the auditorium at the time and some 150 refused to leave. Warden U. S. Vukcevich and several guards went to the auditorium, where he and six of the guards were seized by the insurrectionists.
Later, a prisoner who said his name was "Ali Ra Hassan" shouted to newsmen from a hand. But through it all, the spirit of allow their facilities to be used so other can enjoy the turkey feast. the El Rio Mobile Home Park, He intends to find out what 2120 North Pacific Ave. Thanksgiving has prevailed. 'a on aa anal they are, though.
Tuesday he went with the CAB's outgoing One woman allowed her ladv A back hoe struck a gas line Wednesday at 3 p.m. to begin Mrs. Hepfler said only eight of the 86 units at the park are receiving gas, and those mobile neighbor tc come to her mobile director, Dennis Albaugh, to the what has become a chilly holi (Continued on Page 2) board of supervisors meeting and to San Francisco to talk day. with regional Office of and city firemen were window: "We asked the super-intntdant to send for a doctor called to the scene and the Economic Opportunity (OEO) officials. for the warden and thev Court Orders Halt To Draft In Seven California Counties Morry Lindros He spent Wednesday meeting wouldn He was asked if the break was corrected.
However, upon checking further, it was found that 20 with the poverty program's warden was injured but his re OEO programs at the con FULL SERVICE 1 with purchase of 12 Cel. I I $1.49 EXTERIOR ONLY i I with fill-up no min. I In il I we even dry your car 3 1 I DIVIDEND POINTS ply was inaudible. Prison officials had no comment. cubic feet of gas was leaking gressional level.
Also, a general "If we win it will be a prece from the line at another source. mistrust from poor people." One prisoner dropped a note from a window to Associated after the original break had LOS ANGELES (AP) The military draft has been halted in seven California counties for 10 days so the new Selective dent for nationwide use," Saltzman said, adding: "Everybody staff. He feels his first job is to find out what's going on in the program. He'll do this by "sitting down and listening to the people on the board and the grass roots people." Being new to the community, Albaugh said, "CAB doesn't Press newsman James Gersten- have enough resources," and been repaired. "We can smell the gas, but we who has been drafted since zang but police confiscated it.
Service act can undergo judical Sept. 28 probably can get out of one of Lindros top priorities is to "get the most out 0 A small fire was seen burn can't find the break," said park manager Mrs. Jane Hepfler today. She said work crews the Army if our position is ing inside one of the four winss he's not sure what condition the CAB is in. But Albaugh told resources people and money." searched until 4 o'clock this of the X-shaped prison, situated on U.S.
109. Officials shut off all In San Diego, a federal judge him. morning to find the gas leak. "He's getting a CAB that is Wednesday canceled induction orders for 25 men who claimed and started up again today. a i i stratively and func She said officials told review.
Judges Walter Ely and Shirley M. Hufstedler of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of appeals issued an order Wednesday prohibiting inductions in response to a court challenge by the American Civicl Liberties Union. The action will affect at least 1,500 draftees in the central judicial district of California, said ACLU attorney Alan Saltzman. water in the institution.
The sixth guard taken hostage. Eddie Mullins, 39, was released as a go-between. He said, "Don't let it be another Attka." adding that the prisoners wanted a meeting with Gov. Lindros also intends to "dcfactionalize th conflicts within the community. And to reduce fears in the white community of OEO programs." One problem Lindros has doesn't have a thing to do with CAB.
He's looking for a place to tionally better than it ever was," Albaugh said. "The CAB has more support from the her a "sniffer," a piece of equipment, is needed to locate the leak, but it is in San Jose they were protected by the 90-day clause. Judge J. Clifford Wallace said in his decision the men can be called up after Dec. 28.
The ACLU said if it is successful in its suit, more than supervisors than it ever has and the person who operates it had. can't be located. "He's also getting a lot of up- The next suggestion was to tightness from the black com USE OUR PLAN AND DRIVS A CLEAN CAR AM THE TIME FOR LESS THAN A DOLLAR A WEEK Soquel Carwash 20Q1 SOQUEL AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ contact a plumber and have him stay. "Half of my things are parked in a gas station," he said. He hopes to find a place before the weekend, however.
William T. Cahill. There was no immediate comment from Cahill "They don't want to be killed," Mullins said. He urged officials not to storm the orison pack the pipeline so other lines The ACLU agued in its suit can be used." that the Selective Service Act signed by President Nixon Sept. Mrs.
Hepfler called all morn munity, especially since Bill Moore wasn't hired." Lindros beat out Moore, local black leader, for the directorship in a run-off election. Albaugh went on, "He's in 10,000 youths scheduled for induction in December would be affected. Saltzman said the order slops inductions until a three-judge circuit court in San Francisco rules on the case. ing to locate a plumber and at and warned, "The inmates feel 28 doesn't become effective for illegally when they inducted presstime had located Georce He said he was impressed with Albaugh's knowledge of the CAb and the programs appear "good on paper." it is going to be another At Allen in Scotts Valley, who said men before Dec. 28.
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