NYC Youth Service Comr Gross summoned back from vacation on Oct 6 to explain long list of what Controller Beame calls 'questionable and improper' expenses being investigated in his agency, including thousands of dollars in personal loans and restaurant and auto expenses charged by Gross himself; questioned in meeting by Deputy Mayor Hamilton, HRA Admr Sugarman and Investigation Comr Ruskin; items in audit, covering 12-mo period through June, detailed; Gross por

YOUTH AIDE TOLD TO EXPLAIN BILLS

Sen Armed Services Com unanimously approves nomination of Maj Gen A M Haig Jr as Army Vice C/S; illus

ABRAMS APPROVED AS CHIEF OF ARMY

H R Shapiro Inc submits plans with City Planning Comm on Oct 6 to build 50-story residential tower with 1,000 units on 57th St between 8th and 9th Avs; Planning Comm Chmn Elliott comments on plans

50‐Story Apartment Building Planned for West 57th Street

147 persons are reptd killed and at least 700 injured on Oct 5 when train carrying 1,500 passengers home from religious fiesta derails near Saltillo, Mex; rr spokesman says train took 40 mph curve at 60 mph; illus; map

147 Dead, 700 Hurt As a Fiesta Train Crashes in Mexico

E Ger Council of State Oct 6 announcement of amnesty for thousands of E Ger criminals and pol prisoners seen linked to current intensive negotiations with W Ger aimed at normalizing relations between 2 Gers

AMNESTY ORDERED BY EAST GERMANY

US Justice Dept enters suit seeking to desegregate pss in Denver, Colo, as friend of the ct on Oct 6; case is 1st involving Northern school dist; dept holds only those schools in Denver which have suffered from official segregation need be desegregated; says that in other schools, only insurance of equal educ opportunity is necessary, even if all students at a particular school are of minority race

BUSING FOES SEEK SENATE CLOSURE

Oct 7: newly-infiltrated enemy forces reptdly clash with S Vietnamese forces, Oct 6, along Rte 13, 20 mi N of Saigon; action may signal beginning of new phase in enemy offensive; Mytho hit by series of small-scale enemy attacks; over 100 enemy attacks reptd in last 24 hrs; B-52 raids are heavy in Bienhduong Prov in recent days to cut off enemy infiltration toward Saigon; 11 B-52 missions flown in Bienhduong and Bienhoa Provs between noon, Oct 5, and noon, Oct 6; enemy shells Bencat; US Brig Gen R J Fairfield wounded in shelling attacks east of Bencat; US planes fly more that 300 strikes over N Vietnam; 1 MIG plane downed; map

Saigon Reports Fighting 20 Miles North of City

Mayor Lindsay signs 39-yr lease Oct 6 for 17 acres of commercial property for privately financed urban renewal project that will include hq of Consol Edison; dedicates 7-story, triangular hq bldg to be constructed around Flatbush Av and Fulton St; illus

City Signs a Lease to Redevelop Downtown Brooklyn

New reports of movement in the Vietnam peace talks were denied by the United States and North Vietnam yesterday. Details on Page 6.

Peace Rumors Denied

US mil build-up, proceeding at same time as dismantling of Amer mil machine in S Vietnam, transforms Andersen Air Force base at Guam into largest and busiest center for B-52 operations over Vietnam; build-up detailed; bombers illus

Guam a Center of U.S. Build‐Up As Vietnam Pullout Progresses

A M Okun predicts on Oct 6 that it will take until Aug '73 before unemployment falls to 5%, even if Adm does not drastically curtail Fed spending to remove stimulus from econ; says it will probably be at least Dec '73 for unemployment rate to reach 5% if Cong enacts $250-billion spending ceiling requested by Pres Nixon; holds it would not be inflationary for Govt to permit spending to reach $257-billion-to-$260-billion level in '72 without spending ceiling

UNEMPLOYED RATE REMAINS AT 5,5%; JOBS UP BY 250,000

NYC Police Comr Murphy, citing a serious failure of supervision and control within command, removes Queens chief detective Inspector J T Lane, Capt J Kelly and Lt F Rice from their posts on Oct 6; says 3 officers had failed to rept fact to higher authority that name of a civilian employe of Police Dept had come up during investigation of July 19 murder of G Woltjen, who was stabbed and strangled in his home in Queens; name of employe was found in book, leading to speculation that employe and victim knew each other; Murphy also cites other performance deficiencies of dismissed officers leading to their removal

3 Top Queens Detectives Lose Posts as Inefficient

Judge J J Sirica, in clarifying order issued Oct 6, says he never intended his ban on 'extrajudicial statements' to restrict Cong activity, pol debate or news reports concerning Watergate case; deletes phrase 'all witnesses and potential witnesses including complaining witnesses and alleged victims' from order; before clarification, McGovern natl campaign chmn L F O'Brien called order 'gag rule' and said it represented 'act of supression by Nixon Adm'; threatened to appeal order to Sup Ct; in other development in case, Des Moines Register on Oct 6 repts that White House press sec R L Ziegler, in int with paper's Washington bur chief C Mollenhoff, admitted that some of money used in bugging operation came from Nixon's campaign fund; Ziegler says article is 'complete misinterpretation'; Mollenhoff, in phone int, says 'there is no question' that Ziegler knew what funds were being discussed in int; says he pointed out to Ziegler that Fed criminal indictment included overt acts involving $1,600 cash in defendant G G Liddy's possession, and defendant J W McCord's purchase of $3,500 worth of electronic equipment; says Ziegler replied 'there isn't any question but that the money came from the com'; Liddy was counsel to Nixon re-election com until March 27, when he became counsel to re-election finance com; McCord was Repub security coordinator until being dismissed after his arrest inside Dem Natl Com hq on June 17; Washington Post on Oct 6 repts that A C Baldwin 3d, key Govt witness in case, told FBI that memos describing overheard Dem conversations were sent to members of both White House and Nixon campaign staffs; article says Baldwin named W E Timmons, Nixon's asst for Cong relations, as well as R C Odle Jr and G J Sedam Jr, both re-election com officials, as recipients of purported documents; Sedam shared office with Liddy in Nixon campaign hq until Mar 27, when Liddy moved to finance com; phone records show that 3 long-distance calls were placed to Sedam's office from Miami home phone of defendant B L Barker after Mar 27; Sedam has denied receiving calls

Watergate Judge Relaxes Ban on Comment on Case

Brit Labor party conf approves resolution calling for eviction of Amer nuclear submarine installation at Holy Loch, Scotland

Laborites Trade Lefts and Rights and End Ann‐in‐Arm

S Korea announces, on Oct 6, that Pres Park Chung Hee will make state visit to Japan for 6 days beginning on Nov 13 to meet with Emperor Hirohito and Japanese Premier Tanaka; Park will be 1st S Korean to visit Japan since normalization of S Korean-Japanese relations in '65; speculation on agenda for talks

South Korean Leader Will Visit Japan

San Marino Foreign Min G Ghironzi receives banquet in his honor in Great Hall of the People, Peking, China, on Oct 5; Communist Chinese Foreign Min Chi Peng-fei lauds 20,000 people of San Marino

Peking Gives a Big Banquet for Little San Marino

Poland and France sign econ agreement on Oct 5 providing for joint comm and coordination between planning orgns of 2 nations, $300-million French credit for capital goods over next 3 yrs and study of possible joint investment projects in 3d nations, primarily French-speaking Africa; Gierek, in news conf, repts he is not entirely satisfied with agreement, presumably because he hoped for larger credits and trade concessions and because Poland was not granted most-favored-nation status by France since this is impossible under EEC rules

A 10‐Year Treaty of Friendship Is Signed by France and Poland

Oct 7-11: Jewish Defense League head Rabbi M Kahane on Oct 6 is released on bail from Israeli prison; was 1 of 6 persons detained since interception of illegal arms shipment at Lod (Lydda) Internatl Airport on Sept 14; weapons were reptdly to have been smuggled abroad for Jewish activities against Palestinian guerrilla groups

KAHANE SAYS HE GOT VOTES IN ISRAELI JAIL

US State Dept creates job of Deputy Asst Sec for Canadian Affairs to improve strained US-Canadian ties; names R Z Smith to post; previously, Canadian affairs at State Dept have been handled by sec concerned primarily with Eur

State Department Creates New Canadian‐Affairs Post

Vietcong guerrillas, Oct 6, reptdly attack leper colony near Danang; 1 patient killed, 20 wounded

Raid on Leper Colony By Vietcong Reported

Analysis of NATO crisis centered around question whether NATO can survive in an atmosphere of East-West detente as members move toward talks on a Eur security conf

NATO's Future in a More Relaxed Europe

GM chmn R C Gerstenberg on Oct 5 announces that co will spend about $10-million to reopen Fisher Body plant in Detroit in '74 as 'part of GM's commitment to city'

G.M. Plans Plant Reopening

Asst Sec R T Kelly repts that armed services recruiting attained 4-year record of over 50,000 men in Sept '72, Oct 6 speech; says 83% were 'true volunteers' rather than youths attempting to avoid draft, encouraging Defense Dept leaders on possibility of achieving totally volunteer armed force by July '73

Number of Recruits To Armed Services Set Four‐Year High

White House announces on Oct 6 Nixon apptmt of E Hayward, H Heffner, M M May and W H Zinn to AEC gen advisory com

4 Atomic Advisers Named

Sen Armed Services Com authorizes promotion of Maj Gen A M Haig Jr to full Gen

U.S., HANOI DENY PEACE PROGRESS

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October 7, 1972

Headlines from October 7, 1972

YOUTH AIDE TOLD TO EXPLAIN BILLS

ABRAMS APPROVED AS CHIEF OF ARMY

50‐Story Apartment Building Planned for West 57th Street

147 Dead, 700 Hurt As a Fiesta Train Crashes in Mexico

AMNESTY ORDERED BY EAST GERMANY

Billboard 200

Chicago V

Carney

Never A Dull Moment

Big Bambu

Honky Chateau

Notable Births

Historical Context for October 7, 1972