Ben Cohen Is President et Metropolitan Button Div. of WILLCOX & GIBBS (WG&#8208;AMEX) &#8212;Advt.

Ben Cohen Is President et Metropolitan Button Div. of WILLCOX & GIBBS (WG‐AMEX) —Advt.

The chief officer and the former operations manager of Lee Myles Transmissions, one of the largest transmission repair franchise companies in the country, were arrested yesterday and, charged with possession of 180 stolen, late&#8208;model automobile engines and transmissions.

Lee Myles Accused of Using Stolen Parts for Repairs

The chief officer and the former operations manager of Lee Myles Transmissions, one of the largest transmission &#8212; repair franchise companies in the country, were arrested yesterday and, charged with possession of 180 stolen, late&#8208;model automobile engines and transmissions.

PAUL WE LOE YOU. WE'RE WORRIED. PLEASE LET US KNOW YOU'RE O.K. MOM DAD. BINGO.&#8212;Advt.

PAUL WE LOE YOU. WE'RE WORRIED. PLEASE LET US KNOW YOU'RE O.K. MOM DAD. BINGO.—Advt.

Coast Guard Petty Officer David M Day sentenced to 14 yrs hard labor and bad-conduct discharge for racially-motivated murder of seaman Charlton W Little (S)

Widespread Bias in Coast Guard Found in Urban League Survey

Authoritative sources disclose that original Watergate prosecutors, Asst US Attys Earl J Silbert, Seymour Glanzer and Donald E Campbell, broke off all contacts with Justice Dept in Apr '73 after Asst Atty Gen Henry E Petersen refused their demands that he end his close assn with Pres Nixon; say prosecuting team repeatedly warned Petersen that he was scheduled to be key witness against then-White House counsel John W Dean 3d in any Watergate cover-up trials and therefore could not continue advising Nixon; at the time Petersen was meeting almost daily with Nixon and relaying grand jury and other information to him according to edited White House transcripts; sources say it was not until May 22 when Archibald Cox was apptd special Watergate prosecutor that Silbert and his aides again began providing details to higher-ups; Justice Dept official says Petersen's role in relaying information to Nixon was not unlawful; Petersen says he is not 'a whore,' news conf; Justice Dept repr John W Hushen confirms that Silbert and his aides had 'virtually no contact' with their superiors from Apr 25 until May 22; confirms that Silbert and Petersen had at least 2 meetings in late Apr to discuss dispute; White House transcripts show Petersen tried to discourage prosecutors in Apr '73 from investigating Nixon's personal involvement in Watergate cover-up and that Petersen repeatedly assured Nixon that he believed in his innocence in scandal; 2 of Petersen's former aides confirm that he resisted Silbert's insistence that he step aside in Watergate case, telephone ints; sources say that at various times during early May '73, consideration was given to establishing high-level rev group of 3 persons to analyze and pass on work performed by local prosecutors and that idea was still being debated when Cox was named special prosecutor; transcripts quoted; sources say prosecutors did not receive any incriminating information about Nixon from Dean until May and deliberately discouraged any such information until then on Petersen's orders; Petersen por (L)

Petersen Ties With Nixon Reportedly Led to 73 Rift

House Judiciary Com investigators reptdly believe circumstantial evidence links Pres Nixon's raising of milk price supports in '71 with dairy indus pledge of $2-million to his re-election campaign; their conjecture is outlined in 1 of documents com submitted to White House on Apr 19 to justify its request for 141 White House tapes and documents sought for impeachment inquiry; 75 tapes bear on alleged Watergate cover-up, 20 on settlement of ITT antitrust suit in '71 and 46 on milk price decision; com brief claims former Treas Sec John B Connally stressed dairy indus potential for making pol contributions in urging Nixon to increase milk price supports; Connally has denied any improprieties; Nixon has conceded taking 'traditional pol considerations' into account in raising supports, but denies being influenced by campaign pledges; com cites material in its possession as suggesting alleged chain of events: that at Mar 23 '71 meeting with dairy indus reprs, Nixon expressed gratitude for dairy indus support; that he had been told prior to meeting of dairy indus $2-million pledge; that later that day Nixon discussed pol and financial support of dairy interests with John D Ehrlichman and others and decided to raise supports; that Ehrlichman immediately contacted Charles W Colson, who called Murray M Chotiner, dairy indus lobbyist; that dairy indus officials decided that night to make $25,000 gift to Nixon's re-election campaign within 1 day; that Chotiner told dairy men that Ehrlichman expected them to reaffirm $2-million 'commitment' in light of forthcoming increase in supports; White House announced increase on Mar 25; 10 of requested White House tapes contain conversations between Connally and Nixon; com document alleges that evidence exists that Connally told dairy indus official that increase 'would be forthcoming' 6 days before it was publicly announced (L)

MILK PRICERULING LINKED TO 72 GIFT

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Revere Copper and Brass Inc raises prices from $1.06 to $1.11-a-lb (S)

U.S. STEEL RAISES ITS PRICES BY 5.7%

SEC on May 2 files civil action against Penn Central Co, bankrupt Penn Central RR, various subsidiaries and former officers and dirs, charging fraud in connection with rr's collapse in '70 and billions of dollars of losses suffered by stockholders; in complaint filed with Fed Dist Ct Judge Joseph Lord, Phila, comm charges former Penn Central chmn Stuart Saunders, former chief financial officer David Bevan and 3 other former dirs with making false and misleading statements about carrier's financial condition to stockholders and public; acctg firm of Peat Marwick Mitchell is charged with certifying rr financial statements that it knew or should have known to be false and misleading; also charged in complaint are Penn Central subsidiaries Penn Co and Great Southwest Corp, and outside dirs Edward Hanley, Franklin Lunding and R Stewart Rauch; complaint alleges that Bevan and 3 other defendants, Fidel Goetz, Joseph Rosenbaum and Francis Rosenbaum, diverted $4-million of corp funds to bank accts in Lichtenstein; Bevan is charged with making illegal use of insider's information in '69 sale of 15,000 shares of stock; other defendants are former Great Southwest Corp officials Angus Wynne, William Ray and H L Caldwell; in related action, NYC brokerage firm Goldman Sachs & Co agrees to consent decress in NY Dist Ct in which SEC alleged fraudulent activity in connection with sale of Penn Central short-term commercial paper to investors; later, Goldman Sachs atty says firm was charged only with negligence, while SEC counsel insists consent agreement involved charge of fraud; SEC charges against various defendabts detailed; Saunders and Bevan illus (L)

CHARGES OF FRAUD AT PENN CENTRAL ARE FILED BY S.E.C.

LATE CITY EDITION

Sen sources say White House chief of staff Alexander M Haig Jr refused to answer questions before Sen Watergate com exec session, presenting lr from Pres Nixon invoking both exec privilege and atty-client privilege in ordering Haig not to cooperate with com's investigation; say Haig appeared at session accompanied by Nixon's Watergate counsel James D St Clair who advised Haig not to answer each time a question was asked; questions Haig was asked noted; illus of lr (M)

Haigon Nixon's Order, Refuses Questions of Watergate Panel

Illus of Sec Kissinger with his wife, Nancy, greeting Israeli Premier Meir in Jerusalem

Kissinger Meets Israelis On Crucial Syrian Talks

WASHINGTON, May 2&#8212;Administration officials said today that the United States and the Soviet Union had begun negotiating a treaty for a partial ban of underground nuclear tests &#8212; a project discussed off and on since 1958.

TALKS ARE BEGUN TO LIMIT A‐TESTS UNDER THE GROUND

Several hundred rr union leaders are arrested on May 2 in move by Indian Govt to head off crippling strike set for May 6; 1 dies of heart attack while in custody and unions break off contract talks; workers walk out at many key rail centers, suspending service; unions, representing 2-million workers, are demanding doubled wages, bonus, shorter working hrs, cheaper food rations and reinstatement of those dismissed for union activities; Govt has agreed to meet most demands but says it cannot afford to raise wages; shutdown of rr freight services, which carry 60% of nation's goods, could cripple indus and result in widespread food shortages

700 UNION LEADERS ARRESTED IN INDIA

House Judiciary Com on May 2 votes to permit Nixon's impeachment hearings to be televised

NIXON'S ATTORNEY: GAINS WIDE ROLE IN RODINO INQUIRY

ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 2&#8212;The Maryland Court of Appeals ordered the disbarment of former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew today in the wake of his no&#8208;contest plea to a tax&#8208;

Maryland Disbars Agnew; Court Deplores His Ethics

USSR on May 2 demands release of helicopter and crew which strayed over Communist Chinese territory on Mar 14; says Chinese must release craft or suffer 'inevitable consequences of this provocative stand' (S)

Soviet Tells China To Free Helicopter Or Face Retaliation

Brit Prime Min Wilson, after announcing apptmt of royal comm to investigate nation's newspapers' econ plight, attacks what he calls 'Tory press's personalized campaign aimed at damaging Labor Govt by innuendo; is particularly unhappy over recent article about Labor deputy leader Edward Short, who 10 yrs ago accepted money for services to man who was recently convicted of corruption (S)

Britain is Sarting Wide‐Ranging Inquiry on the Press

The Proceedings In the U.N. Today

under-developed nations propose principle allowing for greater voice in formulating monetary policies dominated by Western industrialized nations, special UN Gen Assembly session on raw materials and econ development (S)

Poorer Lands See Start Toward New Era as U.N.Session Ends

HILTON HEAD ISLAND S. C., May 2&#8212;Victor E. Samuelson, the American oil executive who was freed Monday after having been held hostage for 144 days in Argentina, described today in a grim but guarded terms his Life in captivity.

U.S. Oilman Tells of Ordeals Of Kidnapping in Argentina

Amb Graham A Martin admits, May 2, that Air America, CIA-supported airline, was used to transport N Vietnamese POWs; denies this is truce accord violation; Communists have charged that US violates accord by assigning Amer civilians for mil-related operations, intelligence gathering and giving tech aid and advice to Saigon; Martin says he authorized use of plane for 'humanitarian reasons' after request for help to transport a wounded POW; says he did know 6 other POWs would be put on plane; Martin's acknowledgement follows AP photos, taken Apr 30, showing 7 N Vietnamese being led aboard plane in apparent truce accord violation; observers say that photos also show violation by Hanoi, presence of N Vietnamse troops in the South; AP illus (M)

U.S. Admits C.I.A. Plane Carried PON's in Vietnam

South Vietnamese troops drive into Cambodia from Moc Hoa area in Vietnam, battle N Vietnamese troops in bid to recapture Long Khot border outpost; truce accord ban on such incursions noted; Saigon charges Hanoi continues to use Cambodia as sanctuary and supply route to the south; fighting appears to have been triggered by Communist take-over of S Vietnamese Long Khot outpost long used as a base for raids against N Vietnamese troops in Cambodia; mil action involving outpost revd; map (M)

May 3, 1974

Headlines from May 3, 1974

Ben Cohen Is President et Metropolitan Button Div. of WILLCOX & GIBBS (WG‐AMEX) —Advt.

Lee Myles Accused of Using Stolen Parts for Repairs

Lee Myles Accused of Using Stolen Parts for Repairs

PAUL WE LOE YOU. WE'RE WORRIED. PLEASE LET US KNOW YOU'RE O.K. MOM DAD. BINGO.—Advt.

Widespread Bias in Coast Guard Found in Urban League Survey

Billboard 200

The Sting

Chicago VII

John Denver's Greatest Hits

Buddha And The Chocolate Box

Shinin' On

Historical Context for May 3, 1974