European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday january 25,. 1969 i if i i a Toa Iii Jymiil Art a i Arij a the stars and stripes Page 5 Timie i Coronado Calif up cmdr Lloyd m. Fischer his voice shaking and his body trem bling said thursday he signed a spy confession the Day after the Pueblo was captured because he was told his men would be shot one by one. The 41-year-old skipper of the intelligence ship said he was con koreans threatened to execute men j-s&r-u.1 .ai.jl_.j. Lvii -.a.t1-l.i.j. Bates Fca in ,. He ?011 f veil for Crew i = Vinced the North koreans would do 0 end said they had already sent for one of his said he previously had been forced to Kneel on the floor with & pistol at the Back of i Sherid and been Given two minutes to agree to sign a confession. He refused. As he waited for the time to elapse he said he repeated Overand Over again i love you wife. Rose sat Only a few feet away As Bucher told a chill ing Story of being shown a South korean strapped to a Wall with one Eye put out and his lip entirely bitten said that a communist colonel who came to be know Nas Suer a questioned him. In the room he said were documents from the Pueblo and a narrative which made i evident that the ship was on an intelligence Mission a fac which Bucher up to that time had was forced to Kneel with s and stripes lights #., Nixon names top staff member Washington up pres ident Nixon named or. Arthur f. Burns chief economic adviser to former president Dwight d. Eisenhower As the highest ranking member of his White House staff thursday assigning him a Broad mandate to develop Domestic currently 4a. Professor at Columbia not Muy ii Flold Cabinet rank and head a White House group coordinating Domestic programs and guiding them through Congress. 2,800 attend Kennedy fund dinner Washington up a dinner held to help pay off the $3 Millio Campaign debt for the late sen. Robert f. Kennedy Drew 2,800 persons and raised about $300,000.the affair was the fourth in a series of such dinners being staged to help pay the Bills piled up before Kennedy was assassinated Las june. The total raised by All four dinners amounts to More than $1 million a spokesman said. Adin. Mccain condition Good Washington a s. Mccain . Commander in chief in the Pacific has been transferred to a naval hos Pital Here following a mild stroke it was announced thurs Day. The Pentagon said Mccain condition is Good and the Prog Nosis is the Admiral was described As Indian liquor Law repeal sought St. Paul Minn. A a Bill to repeal a Law making it a Felon to sell liquor to indians was introduced thursday in the Minnesota . Earl Gustafson sponsor of the Bill said the old Law is not enforced and is probably unconstitutional. Faubus wife files for divorce Huntsville. Ark. A Alt a Faubus wife of former a Kansas gov. Orval e. Faubus filed a divorce suit thursday in chancery court Here. She alleged general indignities. Faubus governor for six two year terms waived his right to appear and said a property settlement already had been agreed Fau buses have been mar ried 37 years and have one son Farrell Faubus a lawyer who filed the divorce suit for his Mother. Shippers ask Nixon intervention new York a the new York shipping association asked president Nixon thursday to recommend congressional intervention in the 34-Day Dock strike on the East and Gulf association asked that Nixon act under the Taft Hartley act authorizing the president to Deal with strikes endangering venation. A similar Appeal to former president Lyndon b. Johnson Jan. 8 was rejected. Cab operators to seek police Aid St. Louis to. A taxicab operators said thursday they will ask police department officials to permit policemen to drive taxis during off duty hours to Stem the rising tide of crimes against cabbies. Dennis Stringer general Man Ager of the Mound City yellow cab co., said new York City policemen recently were permit Ted to take second jobs As cabdriver and crimes against Drivers plunged 40 per cent. Ripon society names president Cambridge mass. Up Josiah Lee Auspitz of Philadelphia has been named the new president of us Ripon society it was succeeds or. Lee w. Huebner of Sheboygan was Huebner was president for two years. Art forger sentenced to prison new York a David Stein a Painter who signed the names Picasso Matisse an Chagall to his canvasses was sentenced thursday for his Art forgeries which fooled even some has already spent nearly a year in prison since pleading guilty to bilking 12 customers o$185,000 by Selling them 41 Clev Erly faked paintings33 Chagall seven Picasso and court judge Gera a Cucin sentenced him to 2h to five years with credit for time served. Science sub the Ben Franklin launched thursday will reused by a team of oceanographers headed by or. Jacques Piccard to study the Gulf Stream at Point Blank Range. A photo can happen anywhere cop says of drug raids Cheltenham a. A the parents Are beginning to realize there s no immunity regardless of where or How they live. It can happen to anyone a township police chief mad those remarks thursday after 14 teen agers were arrested on Ltd and marijuana charges. Springfield township police chief Louis Machalette said in formation from parents started the seven month investigation that ended in the arrests of 13teen-aged boys and one girl in the past few think the parents Are get Ting More attuned to what going on he said. The father of an 18-year-Oldyouth, one of those arrested said i Don t blame the police for doing what they had to do. If his behaviour was illegal then he should be arrested. Worried More important to me now though is what the penalty the father said he realized the violation was serious but sometimes the penalty can be More criminal than the said he could not explain Iii son s activity but said Young people Here and around the world Are rebelling against authority. This is one Machalette said he does think his township in suburban Philadelphia is any worse than the rest of the nation. I thin the problem is National he said but the parents Are be ginning to realize he said those arrested came from across Section of the township. There must be Over 100 an officer behind me and one i front of me Bucher said. I was told you have two minutest sign or you will be shot i was relieved. I had always believed if they tortured you enough they could make you do what they wanted. Being shot would be a Lessing. At the end of two minute the officer in front stood aside to avoid being hit by the Bullet and the other officer ordered kill the son of a Bitch the gun was clicked. The interpreter said it was a misfire and i was Given two More minutes. Presumably this was going Tobe a game that they were going to keep up i Don t know for howling. When they opened the slide on the pistol i did not heart Bullet hit the floor and i knew they weren t going to kill Bucher said they then told him they would beat him to death. They put me on the floor and kicked and struck me. They worked me Over real lost consciousness and was put in my room in bed. Most of the blows were to the Back with Rifle Butts and kicks. Possibly iwas hit on the head or at 10 . That night of Jan.24 he was taken Back to the interrogation room where super told me i would see what happened to Bucher said he was taken by car on a 10-minute ride to a half basement where he saw a South korean strapped to a Wall with a band around his Chest. He was alive. But he had been through a terrible ordeal Bucher said. He had compound fracture of the Arm and the Bone was sticking had completely bitten through his lower lip. It was hanging Down. His right Eye had been put said he was returned to the interrogation room an told that his men would be shot one by one beginning with the youngest. He said one Man already had been sent was convinced they would do it. They were animals. I was not prepared for that Type of mental said he signed the said he was forced to put his confession in longhand the next Day. Bucher said there was an Messing around with marijuana Aura of Over his Crew in the township said the had to sort out the enter if til i is us i guv let or Xiv. Prising ones the Sellers and the Reia Xea. During their 11 months of imprisonment which was never users. There were a lot of talk ers but we did t have time for said Only one Par ent refused to cooperate in the investigation. We had to bring one Parent in on a warrant said the chief. Had to Clamp Down there is no Den of iniquity Here. I Felt we had to Clampdown before it got any the chief said he hoped the publicity of the 14 arrests would deter other youngsters from us ing drugs. I Hope parents will be Aletto any visible sign that their the Crew suffered from diphtheria pneumonia scurvy hepatitis and various ski troubles caused by improper diet. Excused Bucher was excused fro further testimony in open court for the time being thursday afternoon. The Board was to meet enclosed session starting Friday morning to hear classified information from Bucher and also hear the testimony of rear adm. Frank l. Johnson who was commander of Navy Force sin Japan at the time of the children Are drug users he Pueblo incident said. Any Parent who suspects Bucher was warned wednesday that his child is taking drugs he might face a court martial for should get in touch with us and losing his ship and was told he his family Young people 17 were held in $1,000 bail an the others were released in the custody of the parents on charges ranging from Sale or use of marijuana to Sale or us of narcotics. Did not have to answer further Over i questions. In Washington however 11. Moorer chief of naval operations said the court of in Quiry followed routine proce Dure in advising Bucher he May face court martial
