European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday september 6, 1978 Ohio truckers bombed after urging Reform Washington is a Small company owned by two men who recently urged a Senate committee to Reform trucking Industry regulations was firebombed Early tuesday. A spokesman at the Butler township police department near Dayton Ohio con firmed that unexploded Gunpowder fuses were recovered during a fire that caused perhaps $200,000 damage to Dayton air freight inc. Tuesday morning. The co owners of Dayton Herschel w. Wimmer and Charles t. Hacker testified last month before a Senate antitrust and monopoly subcommittee about difficulties they encountered in obtaining an interstate Commerce commission License to expand their business and about their problems with another trucking firm with which they were working. Fri called in sen. Edward m Kennedy d-mass., chairman of the subcommittee that is look ing into the Way the trucking Industry is regulated is out of the country and not available for comment. But a subcommittee staff aide said the Justice department had been asked to order an Fri investigation of the firebombing. Tom Humbert a Sergent at the Butler township police department told the Washington Star by Telephone that the fire was first reported by an unidentified Motorist about 2 30 . Humbert said that during the fire he found several und Eto rated explosive devices beneath trucks at the firm s facility near Dayton Airport. He described what he found As incendiary devices used by placing combustible material Gunpowder and primer Cord to Gether. They were placed under sever Al of the vehicles. Two did go off one did  bombing under investigation Humbert said he was not aware of the two men s testimony Here. But he said the firebombing incident is still under investigation. We feel that there Are quite a few things Well have to look into Here and one of them is the motive involved Humbert said. I m sure that we do not feel Comfort Able with what we have  he declined to elaborate. In a Telephone interview Hacker said he had had no threats following his testimony i kind of think this might be  he said there was no doubt in his mind that his business was the object of the de vices. It seems either awfully coincidental or strange. As far As the building goes there s another business there besides us. His business was t touched. Every piece of equipment we had had. Either fuses or bombs planted under it. It was clearly a plot to blow up our  Hacker said his business is still operating although its newest semitrailer Rig Worth $30,000 to $40,000, he said was demolished. Linda Mccorkle a Washington lawyer who represents the truckers said obviously someone was trying to put them out of business completely. We think it was retaliation for their testimony before Kennedy s  their testimony was mainly about their difficulty in obtaining an inc permit. Among their opponents was Cape air freight one of the nation s largest air freight firms for whom Hacker and Wimmer worked. The two men were rent ing Cape s inc licences to provide service to airports. Cape kept raising the percent age of revenues it took in return for allow ing the two men to use its permit. Eventually Hacker and Wimmer Felt the fee had gone to High and severed the  Cape official said in a Telephone inter View with the Star several months ago that his firm had simply hired Dayton air freight As a contractor a Way to avoid making Large capital investments in big trucks that would have been required for Cape to serve the Dayton area. Fax Genf attacks training woman flays Fri discrimination Washington a a woman who was one of the Fri s first female agent has filed a complaint accusing the Bureau of sexual discrimination government officials said tuesday. The complaint was filed More than a year ago by Christine Hansen who quit the Fri after being transferred from Washington to Phoenix ariz., last year. The Washington Star reported tuesday that the complaint alleges that Many of the physical training requirements for Fri candidates Are not essential to most of the routine Fri work and has the effect of unfairly screening out women. The newspaper said the complaint contained in a Legal Brief of about 80 pages also charged that women Are discriminated against in the kind of cases they Are assigned to and often Are sent to Field offices solely on the basis of their sex rather than their abilities. A spokesman for the civil service com Mission Joseph e. Oglesby refused to provide any details of the complaint and would Only confirm that the commission had decided there were grounds for a class action in which other current and former women agents May join. The complaint will be reviewed by a civil service commission hearing officer and a decision ultimately rests with the Justice department. Government officials declined to com ment on what Type of Relief the complaint seeks. But the Star reported that the intent is a change in recruiting training and employment practices for women Fri agents. The newspaper said that Hansen is practising Law in Iowa. Her lawyer in Washington Richard Sharp declined to discuss the Case and also would not Dis close where she is living. Women were excluded from becoming agents in the Fri until after the death of former director j. Edgar Hoover. His Suc Cessor l. Patrick Gray Iii changed the policy in 1972. There Are currently 140 women agents up from 70 at the end of 1977. The new director William h. Webster has said he wants to see More women and minority group members among the 8,500-agent Force. Sal Liguori 34, and Susan Cory 26, both pilots Are married at the controls of a now pronounce you. Twin engine plane Over Seattle. Con ducting the ceremony is the Rev. Joseph Mcclennon who is also an air Craft Mechanic. A Man quits Job to search for daughter Detroit a Joyce Marvin Stew Art says not knowing for sure what happened to his missing daughter Ardella is just literally killing  so he has quit his Job sold his Mobile Home and taken off on a Cross country search for her. I have nothing to live for but to find out if she is dead or alive said Stewart 58, in an interview before he left on his journey monday. Maybe it s Only a faint Chance she s still alive. I Don t care How Long it takes i m not going to give  his daughter who was 27 at the time has not been seen since the night of May 28, 1975, when she called her common Law Hus band for a ride Home from the factory where she worked. He arrived at the Gate 10 minutes after getting her Call but was unable to find her. She has never tried to Contact her son who was 4 at the time. Her social Security account has remained inactive. Macomb county authorities who found her glasses under a Bush at the Champion industries Plant the Day after the disappearance surmise that she was abducted and killed. But they have no proof. All of the evidence Points to foul play said Oakland county sheriff s sgt. Ronald Tuscany who has been assigned to re investigate the Case. Stewart who was widowed 14 years ago and whose other daughter 19-year-old Dannelda was stabbed to death 10 years ago at a state Hospital said he tried to adopt Ardella s son. But they would t let me because i was t married he said. Stewart who gave up a Job at a manufacturing company said his search would take him to Chicago Cleveland Kansas City Reno Denver and san Francisco where he has placed classified advertise ments in newspapers seeking information about Ardella. He said he would also use the citizen s band radio network to seek help from those who might have seen his90-Pound, 4-foot-ll daughter. Ardella used to be in the Job corps and she has friends in these cities Stewart said. He has no other clues or anything to support his belief that she might have run away or suffered amnesia. Lois Hirr a neighbor for the past six years said Stewart was travelling by car and planned to sleep either i it or in Motel rooms along the Way. Baby delivered from Mother killed in Philadelphia fire Philadelphia up a pregnant 15-year-old girl killed in a fire that also took the lives of three younger Brothers and Sisters was rushed to a Hospital tues Day where doctors delivered her baby by emergency caesarean Section. The infant boy was in critical condition in the intensive care Nursery of Hahne Mann Hospital. Five other members of the family were injured in the one alarm fire that raced through a North Philadelphia Row House. Earline Davis 15, was fatally injured when she jumped from an upper floor of the three Story House to escape the Blaze which was reported at 2 27 . She was dead on arrival at St. Joseph s Hospital but doctors there performed an emergency cesarean Section and delivered the baby at 2 40 ., a Hospital spokeswoman said. The baby was later transferred to Hahnemann Hospital. The other dead All Brothers and Sisters were identified As Matheno Davis 8, mar Cina Davis 11, and Mohammed Everett Bey 13. The injured children were identified As Barney Everett Bey 12, Josephine Ever Ett Bey 5, Marthena Everett Bey 11, Andes Thina Everett Bey 15