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84th Year, No.139
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Friday, May 3, 1974
Nixon Gains Delay in Tapes Fight
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Nixon gained a six-day delay yesterday in his fight against a Watergate subpoena, and a panel of experts said it would have another report tomorrow on the 18½-minute gap in a crucial White House tape.
A subpoena issued against Nixon by the Watergate special prosecutor had a deadline of yesterday morning. But after the White House petitioned the court to quash the subpoena, U.S. District Court lawyers additional time to file briefs.
In a session with lawyers in the Watergate cover-up case and White House attorneys, Sirica gave them until Monday to file an objection. In another motion, Sirica set a hearing for Wednesday.
In a similar struggle last fall, Sirica
BULLETIN
LEAWENWORTH-The Leavenworth Police Department and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation are questioning a teenaged boy in connection with the death of Robert F. Doby, wife of an Army Lieutenant Colonel. The youth was picked up in City Kansas, Kan., driving a car that fit the description of one on a pick-up order from Leavenworth authorities. The thought to have been involved in the dispute with one of the Doby children.
rejected White House claims of executive privilege and ordered Nixon to turn over several tape recordings of presidential conversations. The U.S. Court of Appeals here upheld the Supreme's decision, but Nixon was not able to appeal without appealing to the Supreme Court.
There were strong indications from both sides, however, that this time the final decision was not made.
Meanwhile, two members of the panel of tape recording experts said they would present their report to Sirica tomorrow. The gap since November.
Sirica said the meeting tomorrow with Richard Bolt, former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and would be held in Washington to would be held in the judge's chambers.
Sirica said that details of the report wouldn't be made public immediately, but that further proceedings in connection with the report would be decided at the meetings.
At the White House yesterday, Deputy Press Secretary Gerald L. Warren said the House Judiciary Committee, which is considering impeachment, had received the full story of Watergate when Nixon turned in his resignation as secretary ofcripts of tapes conversations Tuesday.
The committee voted to inform Nixon that he had failed to comply with its subpoena, which had asked for the tapes, not edited transcripts.
Motive, Suspect Lacking In Leavenworth Shooting
LEAVENWORTH (AP)—Investigators said they had found no motive and no suspects in the mystery slayer lying early in the night. The suspects were a colonel stationed at Ft. Leavenworth.
Robertson said Mrs. Doby was awakened about 3 a.m. when a rock was thrown through the window of a downstairs bathroom.
"We're interviewing other residents of the neighborhood to see if they heard or saw it," said Amanda.
Mrs. Doby apparently couldn't find the stone and returned to bed.
"We don't have any substantial leads, haven't made any arrests and don't have any suspects," said Frank Robertson II, Leavenworth chief of police.
About 3:30 a.m. a window in a downstairs hallway also was smashed.
Sue was killed by a bullet fired through a window after a rock and a firebomb had hit her.
Robertson said Col. Doby carried the firebomb into the yard and then drove his wife to Cushing Memorial Hospital, about two blocks away where she later died.
Police found three shell casings outside the house.
Mrs. Doby went down the second time and yelled for help when Col. Dog and some of the five children got downstairs they found a burning bottle bomb that hadn't exploded and discovered Mrs. Doby had been shot. The bullet hit her in a shoulder and poured a fireball into their area, apparently as she was bending over to pick up or extinguish the fire bomb.
Col. Dohy retired in April of 1973 from a tour of duty in Southeast Asia and was assigned to tactical research and development at the General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth,
Warren said the committee members had received 'the facts on which they can move ahead.'
Mrs. Dohy operated Brower's Corner, an arts and craft shop in a southside shopping district.
He also defended Nixon's offer to allow committee chairman Peter Rodino, D-N.J., and Edward Hutchinson, R-Mich., but no other committee or staff members, to listen to the tapes in private and verify the transcripts.
From Senate sources came reports that Alexander M. Haig Jr., current White House chief of staff, had refused to answer questions from the Senate Watergate
"We feel we have made a very fair, full and responsible offer." Warren said.
At an executive session of the panel, Hair presented a letter from Nixon saying, "It would be wholly inappropriate for the committee to examine you about your activities as chief of staff or about information that has come to you in that
committee by saying he had been instructed by the President not to do so.
Vice President Gerald R. Ford said yesterday that after reading some of the newly released Watergate transcripts he believed that Nixon was innocent of any wrongdoing.
Transcripts Show McCord Letter Sparked Change
WASHINGTON (AP) — The tone and focus of White House discussions about Watergate changed markedly after convicted burglar James W. McCord Jr blew the lid off the scandal with his public charge that higher-ups were involved in the wristwriting raid, according to edited transcripts of taped interpersonal conversations released Tuesday.
On March 21, 1973, President Nixon discussed with John W. Dean III which payoffs and clemency might be handled for original Watergate case defendants so they
The White House has consistently maintained that Nixon cut off on that day any idea of paying money for silence. The White House tape transcripts of this key meeting are ambiguous in many places where Nixon discusses the idea.
But that same day, McCord delivered to U.S. District Court Judge J. Sirica his letter of allegations stating that Dean, the White House counsel, and Jeb S. Magruder, Nixon's 1972 campaign deputy director, were also involved in Watergate.
The one White House transcript of a March 22 meeting has no reference to payoffs or clemency, dealing rather with strategy on executive privilege and with Dean's assignment to write a report on the affair.
On March 23, McCord's letter was read in on March 1. court he talked to Senate Watergate investigators, and within three days his specific allegations were publicly known.
From March 27, the date of the next White House transcript, there is never again any mention of Mr. Clinton's death.
In a national address April 30, Nixon said that as a result of disclosures made to him March 21 by Dean, he on that day "personally assumed the responsibility for coordinating intensive new inquiries into the matter and I personally ordered those allegations to get all the facts and to report them directly to me right here in this office.
With McCarthy's disclosures reheating the case and options clearly changed, Nixon and his aides discussed other strategic possibilities for handling disclosure of Watergate facts, usually falking of ways to be least harmful to the presidency.
"I again ordered that all persons in the government or at the re-election committee should cooperate fully with the FBI, the prosecutors and the grand jury."
On April 17, Nixon announced that because of the March 21 disclosures he had ordered intensive new inquiries into Watergate, and said there had been major problems with the White House counsel that he had told White House staff members to appear and testify
voluntarily before the Senate Watergate committee.
The transcript for March 21 shows a different attitude toward the Watergate committee and another view on the grand jury. Nixon said:
This presidential instruction came on April 17.
"I think I want another grand jury proceeding and we will have the White House appear before them . . . I want everybody in the White House called. And that gives you a reason not to have to go before the Ervin and Barker Senate Committee." You can say I can't recall. I can't give any answer to that that I can recall."
Nixon has maintained in a series of public statements that although he discussed husky money and clemency for defendants in the trial, he did not commit March 21, 1973, he told Dean such action would be wrong. The transcript shows that in a discussion of clemency, Nixon said: "I have never been so proud."
But Dacan has testified he interpreted the motion as meaning the Watergate coverage was too broad.
"What the hell does one disclose that isn't owing to blow something?"
At the end of a second meeting on March 21, Nixon observed:
The White House transcripts for subsequent meetings quote payoff only in the context of Nixon recalling to others that he would be wrong. On April 17, for example:
Haldeman: "No."
Nixon: "I didn't tell him to go get the money, did I?"
The tone of meetings shifted after March 21 from concern that Hunt or Magruder might talk to concern about what Dean might tell prosecutors and to explorations of risk that able to make charges against top Nixon administration H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrhachman.
Said Nixon about Dean April 17. "He's going to do anything to save his ass."
Nixon in this period talked repeatedly of getting the truth out.
On April 17, however, he observed to Assit. Atty Gen. Henry Petersen: "I don't want to be a leader."
Ten days later in another conversation with Petersen during rising clamor and charges, Nixon said he had told acting FBI director William Rucklekshaus: "I leave no stone unturned and I don't give a damn who it hurts."
To Petersen directly Nixon added: "You've got to knock that—crack down. If there's one thing you have to do, you need it to maintain the presidency out of this."
Dairy Man Affirms Milk Price Deal
WASHINGTON (AP)—Former milk-producer lobbist Bob A. Lilly is quoted in court papers as saying his A lilly told him campaign donations were pledged to President Nixon "in conjunction with the 1971 price support" increase.
The statement is the first to be attributed to a dairy cooperative official alleging a link between Nixon's order to raise federal milk price supports in 1971 and the dairymen's promises of up to $2 million in campaign donations.
In a White House statement made last January, the President specifically denied that he ordered prices increased in return for campaign money. He conceded that "traditional political considerations" played a part in his decision to overrule the Agriculture Department's desire to keep prices steady.
The House Judiciary Committee is investigating the milk price matter as part of its impeachment inquiry, and the legal prosecution force also is looking into it.
Lilly's statement surfaced in the subpoenaed papers that were made public in connection with the Justice Department's anti-trust suit against the nation's largest dairy-farmer cooperative, Associated Milk Producers, Inc.
Lilly was interviewed by former American Bar Association President Edward L. Wright last Dec. 27 and 28 during Wright's investigation of the milk producer's political activities. He concurred with Wright's invitation for the coop's board of directors.
According to Wright's typewritten notes of the interview, Lilly said he was told on April 4, 1972 about "a commitment" of funds to *t*. Nikon's re-election campaign.
On that date Lilly attended a meeting that
included his boss, the milk producers' general manager, George L. Mehren, and former general manager, Harold S. Nelson, who demoted to a 100-1000-year "consultant."
"Mehren and Nelson talked about a commitment have been made," Lilly is told.
"There was a prior commitment of money made in conjunction with the 1971 price support. The commitment was made by the corporation, Parr, Marron Harrison and Jacobsen."
David L. Part had been Nelson's special assistant. Harrison was a Washington State alumnus.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars in dairymen's campaign donations passed through his office on the way to the Nixon campaign after the price increase was
Jake Jacobsen is a Texas lawyer now under indictment for perjury in connection with $10,000 allegedly earmarked for former Treasury Secretary John B. Connally. Connally has denied taking money from the dairy cooperative.
According to the document, Lilly continued: "There was a big argument over how much money had been committed. The manager said that Jacobson contacted Connally in March of
1971 about the contribution. Connally said there had to be new money or additional money."
The White House has said sums as high as $2 million were pledged to Nixon's fund raisers by the dairymen before the price increase was granted. White House documents indicate the pledge was cut to $1 million. Eventually, at least $427,000 was given by the milk producers and two sister dairy cooperatives.
At the time the money was given, Lilly was secretary of the milk producer's political fund, and signed checks for political donations.
Silver Lake Mines Investigated
By GLENN MEYER
Kansan Staff Reporter
Silver Lake Mines of Norman, Okla., is being investigated by four, overages for possible fraudulent advertising.
The agencies are the consumer protection division of the Kansas attorney general's office, the Lawrence Consumer Protection Association (CPA), the Consumer Relations Board at Kansas State University and the police department of Norman.
The Kansan ran a classified advertisement from Silver Lake Mines about three weeks ago. The ad said that jobs were open at a Colorado gold mine in the "San Luis de Cristo" wilderness area and that people who wanted to apply had to pay $2 fee.
However, Joseph B. Smith, Colorado liaison officer for the U.S. Bureau of Mines, said Wednesday that no area in Colorado was called San Luis de Cristo, and that he couldn't find silver Lake Mineral Springs or any other location in Minnesota or the Colorado State Bureau of Mines.
"They could have the company and have claims to be developed without ever having registered with us or the state department."
The mine, he said, may be in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Colorado.
A creek named the San Luis is west of the mountains
James E. Porch of Norman, operator of Silver Lake Mines, said the mines were in the Lake Creek mining district, 40 miles south of Salida, Colo., in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. He said the location listed in the advertisement was a spelling error on the map.
He said that eight claims were filed in Westcliffe, Colo., for the mises and that the claims dated back to at least the 1940s.
The mines are owned by him, his grandmother and two other people. Porch said, and had to be worked on every year to keep them.
He said crews had been contracted to work the claims in the past, but this year the mines' owners had decided to form a company to work the mines. Silver Lake Mines is the name of the mine owned by the company themselves. Perch said he was the only person in the company.
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