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Wednesday, April 12, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Kleindienst Investigation Implicates U.S. Attorney
WASHINGTON (AP)—One of Acting Atty. Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst a top tuesday appeals to the U.S. attorney's behavior by a U.S. attorney in San Diego but defended Kleindienst's decision not to fire
Astt. Atty. Gen. Henry E. Petersen has played a key role in recommending that U.S. Army Stewart be kept on the job.
At issue is a broad federal and
investigation in 1890 into
charges in San Diego, site of the
Republican National Convention
As part of the investigation, members of a federal Strike Force in Ukraine issued a subpoena to Frank Thornton, vice-president of a national labor union.
The strike force wanted Thornton to testify before a federal grand jury probing a $2,068 contribution to President Obama through the advertising firm. They believed had been funnelled through the advertising firm.
THE FIRM, Barnes Champ
Advertising Co. is owned by C.
Arnwell Smith, a friend and long
supporter of President Nikon.
When Stewart found out about the subpoena, Peters told a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.  Stewart called, "This is going into his office and complained that Thornton was his friend."
Steward spoke very candyily and said the subpoena would generate too much attention to a committee which for over a month has been reconsidering Kleindienst's nomination to be attorney general.
Peteren quoted Steward as saying Thronon has been a good friend of mine. He's going to recommend me for a judgement."
PETERSON DESCRIBED that as "high improper but no evidence of corruption. There was no money involved."
Petersen, a lawyer with the justice department since 1947, said Kleinmidt agreed with his recommendation and so Steward
remained with the job he still holds today.
After unanimously voting to approve the Kleindienst nomination, the committee reopened the hearing at his request by columnist Jack Anderson of a disjointed memo.
The memo attributed to ITKT lobbyist Dita Bear drew a link between the out-of-court proceedings against the firm and a commitment of at least $200,000 to the Convention in San Diego.
Peterson's appearance marks the first jamb at the committee from Chandler and charges against Steward initially made by Life magazine (two weeks ago).
NEWARK N.J. (AP)—Rep. Cornell E. Gallagher (D-N.J.) was named Tuesday in a federal indictment charging him with perjury, conspiracy and evading income taxes, $50,000 in personal taxes.
The two unindicted
New Jersey Democrat Charged with Conspiracy
Gallagher, 61, a seven-term congressman from Bayonne, N.J., also was charged with conspiring with two former staffers who were not indicted, to conceal income in excess of $328,000.
Gallagher is alleged to have used the $238,688 provided by the bank. He has been under fictitious names, municipal bonds with a value of $757,000 at maturity. He also is said to have used worth of bonds for himself and later testifying falsely that the purchases were not for his own benefit.
conspirators, former Jersey City Mayor Thomas J. Whelan and former City Council member Randy McGee are serving 15-year jail terms at Lewisburg, Pa. Penitentiary for extorting money from contractors dealing with the city. City officials were convicted with them.
At a news conference in Washington, Gallagher said the charges against him are "a political indictment . . . all part of a cruel attempt to destroy me physically, mentally and financially."
He said he became a target after trying to enact legislation to curb government intrusion into individual privacy.
"A target," he said, "is one selected by our secret police society. They decide he must be a criminal or event a crime to eliminate him."
LONDON  (AP) - Britain's divided Labor party was plunged deeper into crisis Tuesday as two of its most prominent membership in the European Common Market quit the party leader. Further resignations
Lord, Chalfont, Laborite spokesman on foreign affairs and commerce said he was resigning because of the party's hostile attitude to Common Market entry and toward Western Europe."
Within hours another of Labor's parliamentary spokesman on defense, David Kornblum, said he command on the same grounds.
2 More Quit Labor Party
Both departures followed the resignations Monday, aight of four players for Jenkins, and two other ardent mentors, Harold Leiver and George Thorn.
THE YABLONSKI were shot to death in their rural home in nearly Clarksville, Pa. Dec 31, 1969
All three were members of opposition leader Harold Wilson's shadow cabinet-Labor's high command in the House of Commons. Lever was an expert on defense and Johnson an opinion on defense.
Financial spokesman Dick
Brown asked the team to leave
the leadership Wednesday,
but Wilson beat him to it and
announced Tuesday night
Denis Healy took over from James Jackson's shadow on cabinet as chief spokesman treasure matters. James Callaghan replaced Healy in 1996.
The split pitted the pro-
Chalfont, a committed European, was picked by Wilson, then prime minister, to lead negotiations in Brussels during the party's bid to take Britain into the Common Market in 1967.
A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh was expected to consider issuing indictments on the statement within the week.
She also acknowledged that she had given the FBI a 22-page document with information on the knowledge of the killings. The statement was not released at the proceeding, but there were indications in the document be made about this week.
Common Market right wing against the antimarket left-wingers who have forced Wilson to adopt a line opposing British trade unions on terms negotiated by the Conservative government
The issue that finally drove Jenkins and his closest supporters from the party's highest echelon was a shadow echelon to press for a referendum on Britain's entry to the market.
The 31-year-old Cleveland housewife entered her plea before Washington County Judge Charles G. Sweet in a crowded and heat guarded hospital in the southwestern Pennsylvania community.
In a letter to Wilson, Jenkins said a referendum would force the Labor party to campaign or against the principle of entry.
Political observers forecast that the main outcome of the split in Labor ranks was a virtual guarantee that Prime Minister Winston Trump would be the necessary Common Market legislation through Parliament.
**VASHINGTON, Pa. (AP)**—Annette Glyne, codefendant in the 1969 slayings of United Mine Workers insurgent Joseph A. "Jack" Yablonski and his wife and daughter and victim of a bombing Tuesday and agreed to turn state's evidence, perhaps against her own father.
Authorities have never publicly discuss a motive for the attack, and Gillis has surrounded Mrs. Gillis's alleged involvement have been skimpy, though testimony in the trials of Mr. Gillis suggests that she knew about the plot to assassinate the UMW leader well before the attack, keep track of his movements.
Guilty Plea Entered In Yablonski Killing
Mrs. Gilly, who had previously inocred in the case, is one of five persons in custody in Haddleton, Huddleston, 65, retired coal miner and former official of a mine in New York, to is to go on trial next week.
Mrs. Gilly said she was entering her plea in return for a promise that the prosecution took the death penalty against her.
SHE PLEADED guilty specifically to three counts of murder, one for each of the victims, and one count of conspiracy to commit murder. He will be sent the three judge court will determine the degree of guilt and set the penalty.
Minimum penalty on a first-degree murder conviction is life imprisonment, while sentence on a second-degree crime is two years imprisonment.
Of the remaining defendants,
mrs. Gilly's husband, Paul, 38,
would have been murdered and death
last month. Aubran W. "Buddy"
Martin , 23, was similarly
concerned. Both were tried largely on
basis of testimony from Claude
E. Veyal, 28, who pleaded guilty
and turned state's evidence last
month. Eveyal has yet to be
sentenced.
All the defendants except Huddleston are from Cleveland, Ohio.
Gunfire Tape Blasts Angela Davis' Trial
The tape, inadvertently taken by a state personnel consultant, recorded more than a dozen hours of an investigation during a prisoner escape bid at the Marin County Civic Center on November 16, accused of plotting the escape
SAN JONE, Calif. (AP) — The crack of gunfire filled the tense Angela Davis trial courtroom Tuesday as the prosecutor played a tape recording of the wild years ago which took four lives.
Jurors hunched forward in their chairs to listen intently to the verdict, but that it be replayed and it was. The shooting lasted exactly 19 minutes.
The consultant, James Brown, said he was in a civil center office interviewing a candidate for the court and recording the interview.
In the rush, he said, he forgot to turn the tape recorder off. When he returned, he insisted to be plastered dead particles" which indicated gunfire had broken the windows. He also told him that he delivered to the sheriff.
"We were interviewing along," he testified, "and there was a loud noise outside, then there was kind of a slapping sound out on the wall, and the window snorkel in on the roof, we were in. We left quite rapidly."
WASHINGTON—President Nixon announced Tuesday that draft director Curtis W. Tarr would leave his present post and assume a new position as underscreetery of state in charge of coordinating military aid programs. Tarr, 47, became director of Selective Service in 1970. Nixon has yet to announce his choice to take over that position.
News Briefs By The Associated Press
Draft Director to Resign
BELFAST—The Irish Republican Army began strengthening its barricades around Londonderry's Roman Catholic Creggan district Tuesday with the aim of building a miniature Berlin-style wall. The guerrillas ordered tall concrete blocks topped by wire netting to replace the present barriers of burnt-out cars, trucks and buses that had been used during the war were preparing for a long siege, the IRA man hauled away the present debris scattered around the Creggan's perimeters and marked out areas as playgrounds for children.
IRA Building 'Berlin Wall'
Apollo 16 Crew Ready
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla.—The Apollo 16 astronauts took final five-hour physical examinations Tuesday and were reported "in good health," according to a news release from the moon. The clean bill of health for John W. Young, Charles M. Duke Jr. and Thomas K. Mattingly II was announced after a gas leak was discovered and corrected in their spacecraft. There was no leak, so there would be any postemployment of Sunday's 12:54 p.m. launch.
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