July 3, 1968

Lindsay scores Cong for providing only $13-million for summer jobs in supplemental appropriation, $62-million below cities requests; Lindsay staff estimates 26,900 jobs will be available from Fed Govt and Natl Alliance of Businessmen, compared to 43,000 in '67; calls alliance program in NY 'total failure'; details

37 men, including 19 present and former policemen, indicted for alleged 'protection' payoffs by gamblers and nightclub owners; indictment, culminating probe begun in '60, cites illegal payments of $209,000 made over a 10-mo period, discloses biggest Police Dept scandal since breakup of gambling empire of H Gross, in '50, who claimed to have bribed policemen $1-million a yr; Dist Atty Hogan links delay in handing up indictment to his fear that evidence obtained by wiretapping and critical in prosecuting defendants might not have been admitted during trial; Hogan names S W Koutnick, S Freedman and R Errichetti as 'bosses of the scheme'; Peppermint Lounge and Roundtable named among those involved in payoff schemes; 4 of the 34 defendants are missing, only 3 of the 19 policemen indicted are still members of the force; Mayor Lindsay and Comr Leary comment on indictment; list of those indicted; some defendants accused in indictment illus

USSR releases plane; it arrives, Japan; is scheduled to leave for S Vietnam

Mrs C H Millington wins 'consortium' suit brought against Southeastern Elevator Co for injuries her husband incurred during elevator accident in '65