"Boston strangler" flees
BRIDGEWATER, Mass.—(UPI)
—Albert H. DeSalvo, confessed Boston strangler, escaped today from Bridgewater State Mental Hospital.
A massive manhunt was launched for the 35-year-old De-Salvio and two other inmates who broke out shortly before dawn.
DeSalvo, who claimed he was the phantom killer of 13 women bolted to freedom five weeks after he was sentenced for sexually molesting four women.
DeSalvo was ordered committed to the mental institution pending outcome of his appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Court.
F. Lee Bailey, noted criminal lawyer who defended DeSalvo said he does not believe DeSalvo is "dangerous or is going to hurt anybody."
In his defense of DeSalvo during trial last month, Bailey tried
"I thought we were making some progress with DeSalvo, but apparently he became sufficiently disgusted with the attitude of public officials and thought he was going to be kept in Bridgewater forever."
Bailey said "I don't think Albert is dangerous or is going to hurt anybody. The condition that caused him to be homicidal before has been cleared up.
Powell's seating depends on him
Bailey, in Charleston, N.C., where he was handling another case, said he had no idea DeSalvo would attempt to escape but added, "I am not surprised he did."
unsuccessfully to get DeSalvo committed to a mental institution for life on grounds he is a schizophrenic who cannot tell right from wrong. Bailey admitted DeSalvo's assaults on the four women and deliberately developed trial testimony branding DeSalvo as the Boston strangler.
WASHINGTON — (UFI) — The House appeared willing today to go along with the seat-and-punish formula worked out for Adam Clayton Powell. The big question
Chou reveals Red Guards killed official
HONG KONG — (UPI) Communist Chinese Premier Chou En-lai today revealed that a veteran government leader had died under Red Guard interrogation. He ordered the fanatical youngsters to end their attacks against Peking officials.
But even as Chou's order was reported by Japanese newsmen in Peking, Hong Kong newspapers told of new, bloody clashes between Red Guardsmen and opponents of Mao Tse-tung in Canton.
The independent Ming Pao said "many" of the teen-aged rough-necks were killed during an attack on an anti-Mao police headquarters.
According to Kyodo, the Japanese news service, Chou identified the dead government official as Coal Minister Chang Lin-chi. He said Chang died during a marathon Red Guard questioning session which lasted over 40 days.
The premier, who himself has remained immune from Red Guard criticism, stated that he personally intervened to save several other high ranking government officers from Chang's fate.
now was whether the man himself would hold still for it.
A close friend of the high-flying Harlem Democrat said he did not know what Powell would do, but added "Offhand, I can't imagine him accepting it."
Neither Powell, who was reported to be at his Caribbean hideaway on the island of Bimini, nor his lawyers had any comment on the recommendations of a special House panel that has been investigating the preacher-politician.
The committee proposed Thursday that Powell be returned the House seat he has held for 22 years, docked $40,000 in pay at the rate of $1,000 a month, stripped of all seniority, and brought before the bar of the House for formal censure. It also forwarded copies of its records to the Justice Department for "prompt and appropriate action."
Key members of both parties believed the vote to seat Powell, scheduled for Wednesday, would carry, though it would be close.
But there was much less certainty as to whether Powell would show up on Wednesday to take the oath of office if allowed to do so.
For one thing, the fine to be levied against him would leave him with annual salary of about $18,000. If the 58-year-old lawmaker resigned from Congress right now his pension would come to about $14,000 a year.
More significantly, his lawyers have hinted that they might go to court if the House acts in a manner they believed was unconstitutional.
"He's a pretty clever fellow and he could have broken out a long time ago and I think everybody knew it," the lawyer said.
Noted Star editor dies
A prominent KU alumnus, Roy A. Roberts, a journalist for more than 60 years, died last night at St. Lukes Hospital in Kansas City. He was 79.
Roberts was a retired chairman of the board of the Kansas City Star. He was also president and managing editor of the Star.
Burial will be in Lawrence.
ROBERTS BEGAN HIS career on the Lawrence World, and rose to serve a number of years on the board of directors of the Associated Press.
He was a past president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and past honorary president of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity.
In 1933 he delivered the annual KU alumni lecture at commencement, and in 1941 received the Alumni Association's award for distinguished service. He was one of the first to receive the honor.
IN 1908, J. L. BRADY, editor of the "Lawrence Journal," offered to turn his paper over to KU's journalism class for one day.
During his tenure as the Star's managing editor, beginning in 1922 and lasting 19 years, he led the paper to five Pulitzer Prizes. Under his leadership, the paper led the fight against the Tom Pendergast political machine.
Roberts who entered KU in 1905, was chosen city editor for the student production of April 25, 1908. When the Newspaper hit the strets about 4 p.m., it rocked the city.
At the top of page one was an article containing a list of "joint's in Lawrence which sold beer and liquor. At that time Kansas was supposedly still a dry state.
ABOUT TWO WEEKS later, the "jointists" were brought to trial in U.S. District Court. Nearly 100 students were subpoenaed as witnesses.
At the 1958 KU commencement exercises, Roberts presented the University with two endowed professorships of $100,000 each.
Roberts gave club
The Faculty Club building, which was formally opened on May 20, 1951, was furnished through a contribution of $30,000 by Roy Roberts. The Club was organized a week later.
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Dirksen supports consular treaty
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Senate GOP leader Everett M. Dirksen has decided to support early Senate consideration of the U.S. consular treaty with Russia, opposing GOP conservative move to postpone action.
The Illinois Republican said today he does not favor the proposal of his friend, Sen. Roman L. Hruska (R-Neb.), to defer the treaty vote until the Senate can consider the outer space treaty and President Johnson's two-part trade program.
Dirksen has been convinced fully by the administration that action on the consular treaty is an "important first step" toward larger tension-easing moves. He declined to talk about those moves, but they could include anything from Vietnam peace negotiations to a nuclear disarmament agreement.
Dirksen definitely wants to see separate consideration of extension of the Reciprocal Trade Act, since he regards it to be more important than the President's East-West trade proposal.
Int'I students to live in frats
More international graduate students could be learning about organized living groups at KU, said Arnold Weiss, assistant dean of the graduate school.
At an Interfraternity Council (IFC) meeting held at the Delta Tau Delta house last week, Weiss commented on the possibility of graduate international students living in fraternities and other organized living groups at KU.
Weiss said that fraternities might consider permitting an international graduate student resident in the chapter house, or letting him eat in the house if he lives in an apartment or residence hall.
The Senator said the United States will be under "continuing trade pressure" in negotiating with Common Market countries and from increasing competition from Japan. On the other hand, he said, there "isn't much Russian trade we could take or use."
The senator wants to withhold announcing his formal stand on the treaty until the next GOP conference, probably next Tuesday.
Dirksen said he felt the Senate should go ahead as planned and consider the consular treaty first "on its merits." The pact sets up rules under which consulates in the U.S. and Russia would function. It is intended primarily to protect Americans traveling in the Soviet Union.
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