European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 7, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 5 flood indicted on 3 counts of perjury in influence Case rep. Daniel flood Washington up rep. Daniel flood d-pa., a Veteran of 30 years in con Gress was indicted tuesday on three counts of perjury in connection with alleged influence peddling by him and his former top aide. The indictment returned by a Federal grand jury in los Angeles accused the flamboyant Pennsylvania Democrat of lying at the trial in which aide Stephen Elko was convicted and earlier to a grand jury investigating Elko s activities. These were the first formal charges filed against flood since the Justice department s organized crime Section began investigation of allegations that the con Gressman accepted More than $100,000 in bribes. Flood outside his Home in Wilkes Barre pa., read a statement denying the charges and predicting he will be exonerated and will win re election in november. The indictment charged that flood lied under oath on three occasions about  offs Elko received for supplying the influence of the congressman s office on behalf of West coast Trade schools. Elko was convicted in los Angeles last year on charges of conspiracy soliciting a bribe perjury and obstruction of Justice and sentenced to three years in prison. Flood 74, a mustachioed former shakespearean actor could face a maximum of five years in prison and a $10,000 Fine on each of the three perjury counts if convicted. In his statement tuesday he said i completely deny All of these assertions and their implications As Well. For 30 years i have served the people who elected me in muscular dystrophy telethon Jerry Lewis denies being paid Las vegas a Jerry Lewis emotional denial that he made any Money from his annual labor Day muscular dystrophy telethon was not scheduled and caught the staff of the 21 a hour show by Surprise a muscular dystrophy spokesman said tuesday. It came As a Complete Surprise to All of us said Horace Petzall. He said he wrote it himself. He wanted to get this off his Chest and he  in a rambling and emotional six minute speech that was not heard by most viewers because it was made when the network Cut away to local stations Lewis said he had received 27 letters saying funds pledged to the telethon would not be paid until he As Burroughs Kin sue makers of Tarzan porno film new York a a pornographic take off of Tarzan films titled Tarozon shame of the Jungle has led to a suit by relatives of the late Edgar Rice Bur roughs author of the Jungle classics. To add insult to injury according to the suit the narration in the animated porno graphic a rated version is done by Johnny Weismuller jr., son of the olympic Cham Pion swimmer who starred in Many of the original Tarzan movies. The suit filed tuesday in . District court in Manhattan claimed the Tarzan of Burroughs books was handsome Strong intelligent courageous and honest while Tarozon is not Only weak stupid physically unattractive but also lewd and sexually unattractive. Faithful wife Tarzan s faithful wife Jane was depicted in the porno film As an aggressive sexually demanding and strident woman who is nude for most of the movie the suit charges. The relatives of the author suing through Edgar Rice Burroughs inc., which holds worldwide copyrights on tar Zan asked for an injunction halting further showings of the films. It has already been shown in Kansas City St. Louis and Washington ., the suit said. The suit also asked damages of $3 Mil lion from the distributor International Harmony productions of new York and the co producers society Valisa films of Brussels and society and of Saint Ouen France. Sure the donors he worked for free. Twenty seven letters question not Only does Jerry get paid for doing this telethon this hurts the comedian said monday in the final two hours of the telethon. They assured us that they will not Send the pledge they made until they Are assured that he volunteered his time and Tal ent. Well they re holding Back dollars from my kids. So i answered  in a statement he said he wrote about 3 . Monday Lewis said. The answer is absolutely no. I receive nothing from the my telethon or any of the my activities throughout the year and there Are Many of  funds raised last year Petzall Public relations director for the association said 83 percent of the funds raised last year went to fight the disease a non contagious illness which causes the Muscles to deteriorate. He said the remaining 17 percent went for fund raising and management in Gen  a total of $6,477,370, 13.7 percent was spent on various fund raising activities while $1,573,157 or 3.3 percent went to management costs. Of the 83 percent which went to fight the disease a total of 31.3 percent $14,738,255, went to muscular dystrophy research pro Grams Petzall said. Patient services received 28.6 percent or $13,481,932, while clinical diagnostic and other Community services received 15.5 percent or $7,283,469. Professional education and training got 2.7 percent or $1,295,842, pet Zall said while Public health and education received 4.8 percent of $2287,681. Lewis 1977 telethon his 12th brought in almost half the $59,216,238 the association collected last year. In the 1977 telethon Petzall said $26,841,419 was pledged but the final collection amounted to More than $27 million for a 103 percent return on the pledges. Of the funds collected from All sources last year Petzall said the association spent $47,137,706. The rest of the Money was carried Over to the 1978 budget. Of time sept. 7, 1948 Berlin s City Assembly convened in the Western sectors after communists again prevented an Assembly meeting at a City Hall in the soviet sector. Sept. 7,1958 a team of american scientists and engineers startled the world s atomic experts at Geneva by assembling a nuclear reactor and making it work during the first six Days of the atoms for peace Congress. Sept. 7,1968 Spiro t. Agnew the re publican vice presidential nominee told a convention of Young republicans at York pa., that the Republican party would get the . Out of the War in Vietnam if placed in National Power the next january. The Best manner i knew How and time after time they have demonstrated their Confidence by returning me to office for 14 additional terms. I have never done anything to destroy that Confidence and Ever mindful of that fact i am certain that these charges will be proven false charges made by Des Perate men under pressure. My successful Case in the courts Andy re election in november will illustrate that their Confidence is  president Carter became involved in a controversy during Early stages of the Elko flood investigation when David mar Ston then . Attorney in Philadelphia accused the White House of covering up the inquiry. Marston s office was investigating flood and rep. Joshua Eilberg d-pa., when he was removed from his Post but Carter and attorney general Griffin Bell insisted Marston s firing was not politically motivated. Elko was sentenced to three years in prison in los Angeles last october after his conviction on charges of conspiracy Solic iting a bribe perjury and obstruction of Justice for accepting $25,000 in bribes in Exchange for supplying influence in flood s office to West coast Trade schools. Falsehood claimed flood s indictment charges that at Elko s trial on oct. 11, 1977, flood lied when he said he had no knowledge that William Peters a former Trade school operator gave $5,000 to Elko in the Spring of 1972. It also accused flood of lying twice be fore a Federal grand jury investigating Elko on june 2, 1977 first when he denied he had received $1,000 in Cash in washing ton from former lobbyist Daryl Fleming and again when he denied receiving $5,000 in Cash from Peters at one of his offices in Wilkes Barre pa., his District. After his conviction in the Trade school scheme sources have said Elko began co operating with Federal investigators prob ing flood under a Grant of immunity from further prosecution. He accused the 74 year old congressman in an affidavit of accepting More than $100,000 in bribes. All charges denied flood has denied All the allegations including charges he tried to buy Elko s silence by providing him with a regular in come and $25,000 in Legal expenses. New York rabbi Leib Pinter already has pleaded guilty to paying More than $5, 000 in bribes to flood Between 1974 and 1976 in Exchange for the congressman s help in obtaining Federal contracts for his jewish Antipoverty Agency. Fleming named As an a indicted co conspirator in the Elko Case and Peters who was sentenced to five years in prison in the Trade school scandal both were said to have cooperated with the latest investigation. Peters reportedly has told prosecutors he paid flood $50,000 in 1972 and 1973 sex lawmaker charged with fraud Pittsburgh up former West Ern Pennsylvania congressman Frank m. Clark was charged with mail fraud per jury and income tax evasion in a 13-count indictment charging him with putting peo ple on his congressional payroll to do Pri vate work for him. Clark 62, former democratic Congress Man for the 25th District which includes Beaver Butler Lawrence and part of Allegheny counties was charged by a Federal grand jury with nine counts of mail fraud three of tax evasion and one of perjury. An arraignment Date was not set. The former police chief from Bessemer Lawrence county was elected to the House of representatives in 1954 and served 10 consecutive terms until he was Defeated in 1974 by Republican Gary my ers of Butler. Clark s re election bid in 1976 was unsuccessful. The indictment charged that beginning in january 1971 and continuing to about january 1975, Clark defrauded the . Government by placing employees on his congressional staff who performed few of the services they were supposed to. He was charged specifically with placing two persons on the House payroll to  them for their work in maintaining his personal residence in Bessemer. He was also charged with placing another 11 persons on the payroll to  them for their work in maintaining staffing and operating various Campaign Headquarters to reelect Clark. The indictment also alleges that Clark caused the fraudulent payroll checks to be mailed from Washington  To Western Pennsylvania. The perjury count accuses him of pro Viding false testimony to a Federal grand jury in april 1975 when he denied receiving any monies other than his congressional salary and stocks. Finally Clark was charged with Evad ing income taxes for the years 1972-74 by various Means including concealing and covering up sources of income falsifying records and placing taxable funds in the names of others. The two year investigation leading to the indictment was conducted by the Fri and irs