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Case of Big Jewelry Hijack Becomes Comedy of Errors United Press International NEW YORK (UPI) - Five days ago even New York detec tives grudgingly admired the careful manner in which hi jackers planned and staged the biggest jewel robbery in the city's history. But today the golden image of the bold bandits was turning into brass. The miracle in Man hattan had become a cuinedy of errors. It was not exactly a laughing matter, not with an estimated $3 million worth of loot involved, but it was a bun gled job. And all because of an auto mobile that had become some thing of a relic in these days of automatic transmission and power steering. The wrong man was in the driver's seat of the getaway car, a station wagon loaded with the stolen diamonds, em eralds, rubies and gold. He was unfamiliar with shifting gears and could not get the car roll. ine. He gunned the motor and the vehicle jerked forward a few feet and stalled. It happened repeatedly. "Hey," he called to a group of workers nearby. How do you get this damned thing to go?" One of the men made a vul gar remark. Without another glance, the driver got out of the station wagon and sprinted empty-handed down the street. The workers examined the car and helped themselves to the loot. "A grab bag situation devel oped, said Capt. Charles C. Kilt Jr. of the detective divi sion. "It was finders keepers." He emphasized that many of the workers neither witnessed Portlander Given 10 Years in Prison SEATTLE (UPI)-Jerome 0. Tichenor, 25, Portland, Ore., was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday by U.S. Dist rict Judge William J. Lindberg for illegally transporting stolen money across state lines. Tichenor pleaded guilty of taking about $42,000 from Belle vue, Wash., to Oakland, Calif., after a robbery of the Bon Marche department store here March 8. Tichenor admitted in a sinned statement that he participated in the robbery but he has not hecn charged by Washington Slute authorities with armed robbery yet. Richard J. Young, 37, now an inmate at McNeil Island fed eral penitentiary, pleaded guil ty to the same charges Tues day. He will be sentenced later. the heist nor took part in the looting, but several stuffed handfuls of jewels diamonds, emeralds, a few rubies Into their pockets. They left behind bars of jeweler's gold and the gems they could not easily' carry away. None returned be cause they figured police would show up at any minute. Some hid the jewels in the building being torn down. Others took them home. One even took gems to his weekend farm near Gettysburg, Pa., and buried them. Another man had more than $200,000 worth in a briefcase. Real Story Late Monday night, the real story the story of the "badly bungled heist began to seep out. It came from two separate sources. One a witness who talked to a private detective and the other a demolition worker who "got a snootful" in a Manhattan bar and talked too much. The demolition worker, well in his cups, started bragging to nis Duddy. "We saw it all," he said. "And we got all the loot while the real bandits got nothing." His buddy called police. The other witness was a de molition worker who, apparent ly, had no part in the looting. He told private detective An thony Negri, 28, he had seen a station wagon near the robbery scene, beveral men were near it, he said, looking ill at case. One man, the witness said, stashed a briefcase in an old boiler lying discarded on the lot. Negri found the briefcase, filled with jewels, in the boiler and called police. By dawn Tuesday, dozens of detectives and FBI . agents, dressed in neat business suits, were probing the debris with shovels, long poles and with their hands. At least five demolition work ers admitted their part in the looting, and led the detectives to hiding places. Some were ac companied home to get dia monds and emeralds that had been hidden in teapots and cookie jars. Unearthed In Ruins Hidden jewels were unearthed In the ruins of the building be ing torn down. A pump was rushed in to drain the basement of several feet of water. A fil ter was placed over the hose to catch any loose gems. Some workers didn't realize this, and stationed themselves down stream to catch any diamonds that might come floating by. Police found no gems in the basement, but they did find silverware knives, forks and spoons that had not been re ported stolen in this robbery. Police figured they had recov ered at least 83 per cent of the loot. One high official said, how ever, that not all of it was re covered and most likely the rest will never be found. Electronics Pace Mixed Stock List NEW YORK (UPI)-Strength in electronics featured an otherwise narrowly mixed slock market today. Control Data paced the elec tronic gainers with a jump of more than 3 followed by point sized advances in RCA, Elec tronic Associates, Texas In struments, IBM and Zenith. Steels were weak. The recent ly buoyant rail section softened on profit taking. Du Point and Union Carbide moved up nearly a point each in the chemicals. General Motors declined near ly in the autos. DOW JONES AVERAGES NEW YORK (UPI) Dow Jones final stock averages: HO Industrials 750.21, off 3.5(1; 20 railroads 173.28, up 0.20; IS utilities 137.50, off 0.51, and 05 stocks 203.40, off 0.84. Sales Tuesday were about 4.0t mil lion shares compared with 3.37 million shares Monday. Morrow Returns Following Surgery WASHINGTON (UPI) - Ed ward R. Murrow, director of the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) returned to work Tues day for the first time since a cancer operation on Oct. 5. Aides said that Murrow, whose left lung was removed, would work part time for the next week or so and gradually increase his schedule. selected Tuesday's prices stncKs: Allied Chemical 54 ', Alum Co Am Ixdl HIH. Amerlcnn Air Lines (xd) .11 American Can 4 Pi American Motors SHs AT&T 1.1.1 American Tobacco 27'i Anaconda Copper 47 . Armco (13 American Standard 17 Bendlx Corn 4n'i Bethlehem Steel ,10'i Boelns Air an1. Brunswick IHi Caterpillar Corp 47 Chrysler Corn 1)21 Cncn Cola 105 C.B.5 flli Columbia Gas 27' Continental Can 42 Crown Zcllerhnch . S3 urticllile stcol 22 li Curtlss Wrleht Dow Chemical Du Pont Eastman Kodak Firestone Ford . General Dynamics General Electric General Foods Ixdl General Motors Geural Portland Cement Georgia Pacific Great Northern Railway .. Greyhound ... 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Police late Tuesday nignt found two text books carried by 18-year-old Judith Williamson the morning she vanished. Both books were splattered with blood. Chief Ralph Jensen confirmed the finding of the books, but he refused to reveal where they were found or who found them. We have some pretty good leads," Jensen said, "and we don't want to spook anybody." Boy Kinds Umbrella On Monday, an 11-year-old boy turned over to police an umbrella Judith had been car rying the day of her disappear ance. He said he had tound tne umbrella in a trash can three days after the attractive coed was reported missing. Discovery of the books and the umbrella strengthened fears by police that the girl was the victim of an attack. Judith left her home at 7:10 m. Oct. 29 for a five-block walk to catch a bus for the uni versity. 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The likeable Petinaud, a fix ture at the Capitol dining room, arrived Tuesday night from London aboard an Air Force jetliner with the delegation, headed by Rep. Wayne L. Hays, D-Ohio. "I didn't do anything wrong," said Petinaud, "and I would be ready to do It again tomorrow." The trip wis part of his three week vacation. He reports back to work Monday. Petinaud's presence on the delegation, which attended the NATO parliamentarian's confer ence in Paris, triggered an up roar when it became known last week. More than $200 in congres- Foreign Briefs DOMINICAN ASSASSINATION PLOT TOLD SANTO DOMINGO (UPD-The newspaper Prensa Libre said today the Communists are plotting to assassinate government leaders, high-ranking army and police officers and other promi nent Dominicans. BRAZIL EXPECTED TO JOIN AGENCY PLANS SAO PAULO, Brazil (UPI) Delegates to an economic confer ence here said today they believe Brazil will join other new-world nations in plans to form an agency to coordinate U.S. aid to Latin America. KING HASSAN SHUFFLES CABINET RABAT, Morocco (UPI) King Hassan II today appointed Mo rocco's first non-royal premier in three years and chose a new foreign minister in a cabinet shuffle apparently aimed at instill ing new life in the government during its current border conflict with Algeria. Justice Minister Hadj Ahmed Bahnini became pre mier, the nation's first since the late King Mohammed V dis missed the cabinet in I960 and took over the post of premier himself. PARAGUAY LIFTS 'STATE OF SIEGE' ASUNCION, Paraguay (UPI) The government announced to day It has terminated "state of siege" regulations In 10 of Para guay's 14 provinces. The modified military regime, imposed to maintain order, will remain effective in Asuncion, Itapua, Alto Parana and Villa Hayes provinces. sional counterpart funds were used to pay his expenses while he served as a "messenger and liaison man" for Hays' group, which included 10 other con gressmen. Petinaud also re ceived a free round-trip to Eu rope, courtesy of the Air Force. Most congressmen were reluc tant to comment on the actions of a colleague, but Rep. H. R. Gross, R-Iowa, the well known economizer, had no qualms. He attacked the "shenanigans" of the delegation and suggested that the bill to boost congres sional salaries $10,000 to $32,500 might suffer. Gross is an im placable foe of the pay raise measure. Hays stoutly defended his ap pointment of Petinaud to the delegation staff. "Ernest was one of the hardest workers at the Paris conference," he said. Hays, who was called "Ohio's Marco Polo" by Sen. Stephen M. Young, D-Ohio, Tuesday, said congressional staff mem bers normally are chosen for duties of the type performed by Petinaud "but Ernest had asked me to keep in mind for something like this. I think he is a nice guv and he deserved it." Paid London Expenses Hays said that during the del egation's four-day stay in Lon don he paid Petinaud's ex penses out of his own pocket (about $64) because "Ernest didn't do any work in London." Asked about the furor over his trip, Petinaud, a white haired Negro who speaks French and Spanish, said, "you can't please everybody some people will say you shine their shoes too brightly." Petinaud said he enjoyed the trip and "met many famous people." Twenty Air Force staff ears whisked Hays, Petinaud and other delegation members from Regional Edition Medford Page 2-A Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1963 nearby Andrews Air Force Base, Md., to their homes Tues day night. 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