European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I saturday february 8, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 5 just i Slit Side Lii ills new Agency planned for Agnew Washington a the Nixon administration plans to establish a new Agency to assist vice president Spiro t. Agnew in his Job As Liaison Man wit state and local officials sources reported thursday. The new Agency expected Tobe called the office of intergovernmental relations will havea full professional staff and will be designed to keep Agnew unto Date on problems he will be dealing with. Singer left $900,000 in . New York a Giovanni Martinelli metropolitan opera Tenor for 33 years left the bulk of an estimated $900,000 estate in this country As a lifetime Trust to his wife Adele. An application for probate of his will filed in surrogate court said the Trust will be divided upon mrs. Martinelli s death Between her two daughters Benedetta m. Lizotte and Giovannes. Serventi. Teachers reported carrying guns East St. Louis 111. A the president of the East St. Louis school Board has Esti mated that 75 per cent of the teachers in the City s Public school system carry firearms for their own  carry guns for their own Protection from students outsiders militants and even in some cases from parents Sai Dcharles Merritts. Moo ship moved to Assembly site Cape Kennedy up the Apollo 10 Moo ship schedule to Fly within 50,000 feet of the lunar surface in May was moved to the rocket Assembly building thursday for mounting on its Saturn 5 launcher. At the same time Apollo 9 officials were holding an important flight review for the space flight scheduled to begin feb. 28. All aspects of preparations for the Earth Orbital launch of James me Rivltt David Scott and Russell Schweickart were studied. White House to serve . Wines House last week with frenc Champagne. Future White House parties will feature american wines mrs. Nixon for press Secretary Gerry Van Der Heuvel said. Washington a presi Dent and mrs. Nixon plan to give american wine growers equal Billing with the French even though they launched their formal entertaining at the White Symington to tour Europe Mideast Washington up sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri will begin a tour of Western Europe and the Middle East saturday for meetings and briefings that he said will Tell him More about . Standing in those countries. Symington will visit Italy Israel Greece Germany Belgium France England and other countries. He will be accompanied by Arthur Kuhl chief clerk of the Senate foreign relations committee and David Calhoun. Gas bomb set off at meeting Iowa City Iowa a tear Gas bomb went off at the rear of the University of Iowa memorial Union lounge thurs Day night As about 1,200 person gathered for the final session of a student Power  reported no injuries because of the incident but the lounge was vacated and moved to a ballroom in the same build ing. But Only Bride got the hitch lovers wanted to get hitched Richmond a. A Mike Jones 18, and Rosa Lee Stinnett 19, met fell in love an decided they wanted to be mar ried. But they agreed to wait until Mike fulfilled his military  Mike would be wearing a uniform Rosa figured she might As Well too. So both were sworn into the air Force Here Jan. 9 and travelled together to Lackland air Force base at Sanantonio Tex. Three Days later without eve having been issued a uniform Mike aggravated an old hip in jury. He s Back Home now with a medical discharge. Rosa she s still in Basic training in Texas with nearly four More years to serve on her enlistment. Victim Laura e. Hefley 20,a student at the University of Louisville was raped and Mur dered. The body of the Fulton ky., music major was found behind a Campus  hijacking a tragedy waiting to happen by Robert f.  up a National airlines Pilot gave congressmen a chilling account thursday of How his plane was hijacked to Cuba nine Days ago and pleaded with them to Stop what he called a tragedy waiting to . J. B. Brown s testimony before the House interstate an foreign Commerce committee was backed by the presidents of the air line pilots association and the air transport association representing the pilots and the airline  h. Ruby the Alpa president said pilots of hijacked planes have been Lucky so far in avoiding disaster. It is Only matter of time before a hijacking results in a catastrophic action he said. Jury acquits boy9 13 of murder Orlando Fla. A thir teen year old Robert Curtis was found innocent of murder thurs Day in the Rifle killing of a play  Orange county circuit court jury of seven women and five men deliberated for an hour and 45 minutes asked again to hear the charges and then re turned the innocent  Foreman Edward Parker read the verdict Curtis smiled for the first time during the two Day trial and walk Dover and Shook the hand of rep. Diggs to Fly to Nigeria Washington up congressman Charles c. Diggs jr., the new chairman of the House subcommittee on Africa said thurs Day he will Fly to Nigeria next week to find ways the United states can help end the Nigeria Biafra War. Diggs a negro from Detroit said he favors third party efforts particularly from More influential countries in order to get the principals to the peace  teen age burglary ring smashed Shippensburg a. A police said thursday they arrested six High school senior Sand broke up a burglary ring which took Antiques valued Atmore than $100,000. Authorities said the boys Al seniors from prominent families operated in a three county area in South Central Pennsylva Nia. Several of those arrested were described As Honor Stu dents. The thefts included a chair Worth $5,000 and several paint Ings vases and Grandfather clocks valued from $8,000 up wards. For s yacht sold in California los Angeles a Franklin d. Roosevelt s 165-foot presidential yacht Potomac was com for an undisclosed sum at a fore closure Sale to a firm which plans to use it for oceanic  Yoet on which Roosevelt s four freedoms were drafted Andl the Atlantic charter negotiated was sold to Potomac Oner turns corp its new owner Edward Bynon of Long Beach call., said he will equip it As an  research vessel Trio freed in killing of . Gambler Paterson . A the three defendants in the Gabriel Defranco murder trial were found innocent thursday end ing the longest murder trial inner Jersey history. The 11 men and one woman on the jury returned their ver dict at 12 52 . After nearly seven hours of deliberation. The defendants were publish ing executive Harold Matzner 32, suspended Clifton police  Degroot 42, and Paterson Salesman Vincent Kearney jr., 38.Defranco, a Gambler was found in front of his Paterson apartment oct. 6, 1966, with his Throat  prosecution maintained Defranco was slain to Seal his lips about the murder of mrs. Judith Kavanaugh of Clifton,., feb. 23, 1968. The state also contended he was killed because she was about to in form authorities about a counterfeiting operation. The trial last five months brought 142 witnesses to the stand and produced about 12,000pages of transcribed testimony. Parker who also  his closing arguments prosecutor Robert Eagan asked the jury to bypass a first degree verdict in favor of second de Gree murder or manslaughter. To put a 13-year-old boy inthe electric chair would be repugnant to the state Eaga said. I would be the first to Call the governor asking for clemency had such a verdict been  the verdict Robert s Mother screamed for Joy an hugged her son. The boy s father held his hand and he an mrs. Curtis wept. Are we going Home now Robert asked his Mother. Yes we re going Home she  had testified in his own behalf and said the shooting was  boy testified that he had neither argued with nor threat ened James Thompson 15, the victim As charged by  playmate Chuck Gibbs who had been in the apartment when Thompson was shot in the Eye last sept. 9, Testi fied wednesday that Curtis argued with Thompson for cigarette then stormed out of the room saying i m going to shoot  Diplomat Hart to head foreign service school Washington up ambassador Parker t. Hart 58, former ambassador to Turkey and a career foreign service officer has been named director of the foreign service Institute the school which train officers and employees of the state department and foreign service. Hart was assistant Secretary of state for near Eastern and South asian affairs during thelast few months of the Johnson administration. Stuart c. Tipton the at president agreed and said pilots should be Given credit forthe Way they have handled hijackers. Both urged immediate efforts to arrange an International agreement under which Hijack ers would be returned to their Homeland for criminal prosecution. In the United states hijacking is a Federal Offens carrying penalties ranging from 20 years in prison to death. Brown 44, of Miami said his National pcs was hijacked Jan. 28 on a flight from los Angelesta Miami when two negro men entered the cockpit. One stuck a 38-caliber pistol right Between my eyes and placed a Box of shells on the flight console Brown said. The other pulled a cigarette Carton out of a Satchel withdrew dynamite Sticks wired Themo Gether and All the while appearing extremely nervous went through the motions of lighting a match which he lever did. Tense 10 minutes there was a Good 10 minute when things were very much in the balance Brown said there was a gentleman in the passenger Cabin slightly intoxicated. He wanted to come up and give the Captain  s All i would have  the hijackers took Over control Brown said he was told not to make a move or not to touch  As for the Copilot the gun waving Hijacker told him shut up and shut up now Brown told them he could Fly the plane under those conditions and suggested let  the on reply he got he said was the gun indy eyes  Brown said it was 15 minute before the hijackers would even let him take an airways Chart out of his flight bag to Check the route to Havana. Even then he said the Hijacker kept the gun barrel Over my right Eav until we  action imperative whatever it takes to solve this problem do it Brown urged the committee. He said hijacking was nothing More than a tragedy waiting  so far this year 13 Commer Cial airliners nine of them american have been hijacked to Cuba. Two other hijacking attempts were foiled David d. Thomas acting administrator of the Federal aviation administration says the Only immediate Hope of stopping hijackings is a diplomatic breakthrough wit Cuba with which the United states now has no direct diplomatic relations. The air transport association and the air line pilots association both have offered$25,000 in rewards for information leading to conviction of hijackers