European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 14, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 Shapp must  Back $300,000 of Matching funds Harrisburg a. A Pennsylva Nia gov. Milton j. Shapp said Friday he will repay almost $300,000 from his own pocket As ordered by the Federal election commission but he denied any wrongdoing in connection with fund raising violations. At no time during my Campaign did i video by Plant manager Hugh Walker who have any knowledge of improper fund Rais was reimbursed by the company Uig Shapp a millionaire told a news con Walker said in a deposition that he Didrence. Been asked to arrange the phony contrib he said he was appalled at the findings Lions by company owner Milton Weinstein of an Fec audit that improper contrib of new York who told him Shapp needed Lions were made to his 1976 presidential president committee. None of these per sons provided personal funds for the com Mittee she said. An Fec staff report said that in Ala Bama several employees of the Winfield manufacturing co. Registered As contributors although the Money was actually pro Campaign in five states. After making a Brief statement to re porters he left the news conference with out answering any questions. On thursday Shapp was ordered by the Federal government to repay the $299,066 i Matching Federal funds he received for his presidential Campaign which fizzled after two primaries. He thus becomes the first presidential candidate ordered to return Federal match ing funds under the nation s new election code enacted to Correct abuses connected with the watergate  Harvey attorney for the Shapp Campaign committee had said earlier that the governor would fight the order. The Money represented the Federal government s Matching Grant for Campaign contributions raised by Shapp. To qualify for the Grants Federal Law require that a candidate must raise at least $5,000 from each of 20 states in individual gifts of no More than $250. The Fec said several persons had been listed As contributors to Shapp s brie quest for the democratic nomination but had actually been Given the Money by  officials said All 15 presidential candidates receiving Matching funds were audited. The Shapp Campaign committee was the Only one linked to irregularities they  have never had a Case like this before said Susan tin an Fec spokes Man. She detailed How individuals in five states illegally tunnelled Money into the Shapp Campaign through other i Dividu  Fec said it reached agreements with 22 persons to the Case. Eighteen of them agreed to  fines ranging from $25 to $750, and others agreed to  states where irregularities were found were Alabama Georgia Nevada. North Carolina and  named seven persons in Alabama and said each signed letters that the made $100 contributions to the Shapp for $2,000. Walker said he was contacted in Janu Ary 1976 by Eleanor Elias a Shapp Campaign fund Raiser and asked to provide live letters from people. And Eleanor told me. That she needed these letters saying that the people were making a contribution of $100 each and get them to sign the letters but not to Send any Money that she would take car of that Walker testified. Walker said he got five people to sign the letters and they were mailed to Philadel phia. The Fec said that in Georgia Stanle Segel provided Money for donations in the names of some employees of no Stan Indus tries which he partly owns. In North Carolina Pittsburgh business Man Gus Nicholas who owns a summer Home in that state made a similar request of friends and neighbors. The biggest Fine $750, was levied against Siegel. The second biggest $500,was against Nicholas. Amy checks Energy source at his training Camp in new Carrollton,md., world heavyweight Champ Muhammad All lets Amy Carter feel his famous Bleep. President Carter s daughter was a member of a washing ton d.c., school class that dropped in to watch All work out for his tight with Alfredo evangel Sla of Spain. A buyer must Promise to preserve if spirit of St. Louis1 crate to be auctioned Contoocook . A a packing crate with history will go on the auction lock soon but its owner says whoever buys it will have to Promise not to break it up and sell pieces As Memorabilia. The wooden crate made its Way int american folklore a half Century ago when it carried Charles Lindbergh s monoplane. And Pine along the Black River in this Small new record transatlantic  then the Lindbergh crate 10 by 13 feet Broad and 27 feet High has served As a cottage nestled amid the Birch panel wants indians to get control Over lands . Seized Washington a a congressional commission is recommending that indians be Given jurisdiction Over lands taken from them by presidential  member of the american Indian policy review commission said thursday night that the recommendation if it Ever became Law could mean tribes would have total jurisdiction including the Power total and administer civil and criminal Law Over areas with minuscule Indian Popula  Loyd Meeds said the report would mean parts of the Northwest Pacific coast state of Washington would revert to the control of the Puyallup tribe which owned the land until it was taken  Hampshire  owner Harry Holt a partner to a computer services company in Monterey,calif., has decided to auction the crate May 20 in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Lindbergh s historic Solo flight. The auction will be conducted by Tele spirit of St. Louis on the return Ocean phone through a Monterey Art gallery voyage from Europe after the aviator s Holt had got the crate from his Grandfather adm. Guy h. Burrage who brought Lindbergh and the plane Back from Europe aboard the ship Memphis in 1927. After the. Plane now in the smithsonian Institute was unloaded Burrage asked forthe crate and had it shipped to new Hamp Shire where he owned a  it was a summer cottage for the family. More recently Holt has allowed people to live in it for free to keep curious visitors from taking parts of it Back Home with  be modified it a Little but it s still the original crate said Derek Owen 45, Friend of the Holt family who has served As caretaker for the property. The crate s current occupant is a Young music student. Holt 35, a graduate of Dartmouth col lege 50 Miles to the North said he was once offered $10,000 for the crate but the prospective buyer was a Pilot and was killed in an air plane crash before the Deal was completed. The buyer had wanted to break up the crate to panel his office. That was All right with Holt. But he says anyone who wants tomake a fast Dollar off the crate by Selling bits and pieces might As Well skip the aug from its reservation by a past . Presidential order. Meeds the commission s vice chair Man said he opposed that proposal. I Don t think society will stand still for what the report implies he said in a Telephone interview. The commission s proposal would no affect lands stripped from reservations by congressional legislation. Meeds said Moreland has been removed from reservations by executive orders than by Congress. Meeds who has taken Issue with past proposals by the group said he doubts the will Ever become Law. It s a report and that s All it will be he said. Tion. High court releases Addonizo Washington up the supreme court thursday ordered former Newark mayor Hugh Addonizio freed while the government contests a . District court order releasing him from Federal prison. The action came in a Brief order mad available after the court s private Confer ence. Chief Justice Warren Burger an Justice William Rehnquist dissented. Addonizio 62, has served five years an two months of a 10-year sentence for conspiracy and extortion. The former mayor who spent 14 Yearsin Congress was freed april 27 from the Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg pa., on orders of District judge George Barlow of Trenton who originally sentenced him in1970. But the Justice department quickly obtained a stay of that order from the 3rdu.s. Circuit court of appeals so that Addonizio had to surrender again May 3. Heis now in the Federal detention Center in new York. The supreme court vacated the circuit court s order and reinstated Barlow s. Evidence at trial showed Addonizio shared in the proceeds of extorted kick backs totalling $1.5 million from contractors on City water and sewer lines. Following two denials of parole Addonizio won an order last month from Barlo cutting Down his sentence to time already served. Barlow said the former mayor has an excellent prison record and it is unlikely he will repeat his offences