July 15, 1974

Bastille Day celebrated in France in traditional manner under leadership of new Pres Valery Giscard d'Estaing; parade retraces original route from Bastille to the Place de la Republique, in dense working-class dist, Paris; festivities discussed; illus

Upper Manhattan tavern patrons kill gunman Monroe Whitaker, who wounded bartender Arthur Guy in robbery, and critically wounded accomplice Clarence Jowers; offduty NYC Ptl John McVey is wounded earlier when 2 robbers held up another tavern in Inwood sec (M)

IRS is reptdly investigating Italian financier Michele Sindona's offer to secretly contribute $1-million to Pres Nixon's re-election campaign in '72 at time Fed Reserve Bd was investigating Sindona's acquisition of Franklin Natl Bank; offer was made public during testimony in Mitchell-Stans trial; Stans says he refused to accept money because it was offered well after Apr 7 '72 deadline requiring disclosure of all pol contributions; illus of Sindona, Currency Controller James E Smith, former Franklin Natl Bank chmn Harold V Gleason and former Treas Sec David M Kennedy (M)

threat to health of Baltimore citizens increases as mounds of uncollected refuse grow (S)

Cong and Justice Dept are reptdly reluctant to pursue allegations of corruption in Immigration and Naturalization Service because of adverse information about Congressmen, members of Cong staff, Fed judge and some officials of exec branch; rept that Repr Chet Holifield, chmn of HR Govt Operations Com, has made it clear to chmn of operations subcom, William J Randall, that inquiry is not to proceed to point of embarrassing members of Cong; Holifield denies allegation; Randall has indicated that he is reluctant to allow subcom to investigate such criminal activities; Fed investigators and other Govt sources say that information most worrisome to certain Congressmen and Justice Dept has come from Norman D Summers, immigration officer formerly in charge of alien detention center at El Paso, Tex, and later in charge of port of entry at San Luis, Ariz; Summers reptdly developed some close relationships, both personal and professional, with wide variety of persons in Mex, including several influential Mex officials at local, state and natl levels; Summers was called upon by his superiors in immigration service to use his connections in Mex to help 'compromise' US officials visiting Mex border; Govt and nongovt sources also rept that Summers told of regional immigration officer admitting to him that he had lied to 2 Fed grand juries investigating allegations and accepting evidence of wide-spread corruption in immigration service's Southwest region; rept Summers said that regional officer had instructed him to commit perjury; Summers was charged in 13-count indictment in '73 with encouraging illegal entry into US, false representation of citizenship and false claims and statements; controversy revd (M)