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6A THE JOURNAL-NEWS, SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1974 3 officers killed in Manila ambush MANILA (LTD Three American naval officers were shot and killed in an ambush Saturday while inspecting road construction in an isolated corner of the big Subic Bay U.S. naval base, 50 miles northwest of Manila, a Navy spokesman said. "There is no indication at this time" that Communist Hukbalahap guerrillas killed the officers, the spokesman, Lt. Cmdr. Keith Schacher, said in reply to a question.

"We are conducting an investi-. gation of this tragic incident and we certainly won't speculate on anything." The three victims, all commissioned officers, were riding a jeep Saturday morning along a boundary road on the northeastern edge of the base when they were shot. "The group was on an inspection tour traveling toward a a (construction battalion) team working on the northern section of the road," Schacher said. He said the ambush site was within the base itself and about seven miles from the base headquarters. Schacher said members of the Seabee team about half a mile away heard the shooting and rushed to the scene to find the three officers dead.

The naval station was promptly notified and a CH46 medical evacuation helicopter with a doctor flew to the site. the spokesman said. "A Marine unit, an ambulance and a Philippine constabulary (national police) team also rushed to assist," Schacher said. The scene of the shooting was the foot of a mountainous area south of Mt. Santa Rita about three miles from an American communications re- lay station.

Work on the boundary road began about two months ago so as to clear" ly mark the perimeter the base. The names of the three were withheld until their families could be notified, the spokes-man said. Subic Bay is a major repair and supply base for the 7th Fleet. liyWvyj Child-proof Drug theft prosecutor guarded iars ordered )Wi ij'g'f i il win Km if I- rU El I Ml Former U.S. diplomat Jefferson Caffery Top diplomat Caffery dies in Louisiana retired persons have been checking supermarkets, drug stores and other retail establishments for compliance with federal poison prevention packaging requirements already in effect.

They cover aspirin and liquid furniture polish containing at least 10 per cent mineral oil or petroleum distillates. Both products have been required to have child-proof packaging since last year, although supplies manufactured before the effective date of the federal regulations may continue to be sold. Child-resistant closures also are required for 4,300 types of sedatives, barbiturates and amphetamines, and certain kinds of windshield antifreezes, linaments, oven cleaners, drain openers and lighter fluids. Manufacturers are allowed to produce one size of each product in conventional packages for the aged and handicapped, provided that it is labeled with a warning. Derailed trains cleared Staff photo Warren Ingles NEW YORK (UPI) Spe: cial State Prosecutor Maurice Nadjari reportedly received extra bodyguard protection jo recent weeks as his investigation into the "French tion" drug theft draws toa close.

The disclosure came follow ing a minor shooting spree early Saturday at an interrfr gation room inside the former police headquarters Nadjari's investigators working on the case. i High police sources sajd. nine shots were fired through a door at about 1 a.m., bat.fyo one was inside when the shoots ing occurred. Police said the incident "was more than likely done by police officers," but would not say how many suspects were being questioned. Published reports said Nadr jardi's protection began about three weeks ago, after he re-portedly received several threats on his life.

4 remain hospitalized after Three Rockland County-men injured in a car accident eariy Saturday morning in Fort Montgomery remain in critical condition, according to hospital spokesmen. The wife of one of the victims is reported fair condition and the wife of a second has been released after, being treated. State police in Newburghret port a car driven by Lawrence Albohn, 26, of 143 Lake Nanuet Drive, Nanuet, was struck, broadside when it crossed in front of a car driven by George Davison, 19, of Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Police say Albohn's Volkswagen was leaving the Trading Post Restaurant on Route 9W in Fort Montgomery when it failed to yield the right Of way and cut in front of Davison's car. Albohn, his wife Geneviene a.id his brother James and his wife Vivian had to be cut free from the car, according to state police.

The two brothers suffered broken ribs and other injuries and are both in critical condi? tion in West Point Hospital Both wives were taken to Cornwall Hospital, according to police, but Vivian was leased. Geneviene. is reported in fair condition. A fifth county Gary Vance, 19, of Route 210; Stony Point, a passenger, in the Davison car, is reported tr be in critical condition in Vas-. sar Brothers Hospital inPough-keepsie with facial Vance and Davison were reportedly thrown through the windshield of thier car.

Police say the victims were too seriously injured to give statements, but said Albohn would be issued a summons for failure to yield a right of way, upon his recovery. Sears Park employes Joseph Langdon and Vincent Gatti tack up warning Hikers hooked on climb LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) Jefferson Caffery, ranked as dean of the United States diplomatic corps before his retirement in 1955, died here Saturday afternoon. He was 87. He held the distinction of having served as chief of mission longer than any other foreign service officer in America's history, holding the rank of ambassador for 20 years.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower labeled Caffery's career "brilliant" when he left his last post, ambassador to Egypt. Caffery was appointed to that ambassadorship in 1949 by President Harry Truman and played a major role in settling British-Egyptian disputes over Suez Canal bases. He was asked to stay on nearly three years after normal retirement age to handle American affairs in the hot Kpot. He was sent to Egypt from France, where he had been the first ambassador to liberated France.

He reopened the embassy in Paris, which had been closed during the German occupation, and served as chief of mission during one of the most critical periods in Franco-American relations. The scion of an aristocratic family from Lafayette, Caffery served as personal emissary for five successive presidents, from Calvin Coolidge through Eisenhower. After graduating from Tulane University in 1906, he joined the Foreign Service "for a lark," as he once told an interviewer. In 1919, he accompanied President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I. In 1933, Caffery was appointed assistant secretary of state, and the following year he was named ambassador to Cuba, a position in which he had a particularly close brush with death.

"I'd gotten threatening letters, so I had a guard," he recalled. "It was a Sunday morning, and I came down to my car at the usual time to go to Mass, but I discovered I'd left my missal in my apartment. So I went back up and soon heard a lot of shooting. "Downstairs, a black touring car had passed by and, Chicago style, had riddled my car with submachine gun bullets. They killed my guard." From Cuba, Caffery was sent to Brazil as ambassador in 1937 and successfully negotiated various agreements with that country for wartime materials, public health and finance.

Then he was sent back to Paris to reopen the American Embassy and cope with the wounds left by World War II. Following Germany's defeat in 1945, he attended the Potsdam Conference. Two years later, he signed peace treaties on behalf of the United States with Italy, Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria. Store robbed in Haverstraw WASHINGTON (AP) If they aren't doing it already, the nation's 55,000 retail pharmacists will have to put most oral prescription drugs in childproof containers beginning Tuesday. The federal requirement is designed to reduce the estimated 500,000 accidental poisonings from all sources that kill up to 500 preschoolers every year.

The sometimes tricky bottle caps won't be mandatory, however, for nitroglycerine and isosorbine dinitrate, drugs used by heart patients who may need them quickly. And the requirement has been stayed for oral contraceptives, aerythromycine, anhydrous cholestyramine and potassium supplements in effervescent tablets while the government considers proposals to exempt them permanently. Those drugs generally pose little danger of poisoning and, i in the case" of birth control pills, child-reistant packaging would foul up the calendar built into the container, according to manufacturers. Patients may legally ask their pharmacist to use non-complying pill bottles, for instance, if they suffer from a handicap which would make opening the child-proof containers difficult, if no small children are at home or if they don't like the inconvenience. About 16,000 children under age 5 accidentally swallow prescription drugs every year.

About 1,230 children were sent to the hospital in 1972 and at least 56 died, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The commission took over responsibility for policing the Poisoning Prevention Packaging Act from the Food and Drug Administration last year. About 1,000 volunteer housewives, college students and Fire damages antique shop in Nyack An object thrown through the front door of the Antique and Craft Center, 85 S. Broadway, Nyack, was believed by police to be the cause of a fire there at 1 a.m.

Sunday morning. A second fire occured earlier at 9:37 Saturday night in an abandoned house at 42 Ged-ney Street, Nyack. (Picture -IB). No injuries were reported in either fire. Both were reported to be of suspicious origin by firemen on the scene.

The extent of damages in either is unknown, but circumstances surrounding the fires are being investigated. The center's owner, Philip Taylor of Upper Nyack, was unavailable for comment, but an employe of the center said the shop is usually open late Saturday and early Sunday when auctions are held. The store was closed this week for Easter, he said. Van der Linde said he was aware of the SEC investigation but not of the Justice Department's activity. But he said his client "is prepared to testify at any time before the SEC and any other government union's jurisdiction for modular work nationwide.

Stirling agreed not to sub-contract any work within the carpenters' jurisdiction except to a contractor who had an agreement with the carpenters' union. In teturn, the carpenters agreed to supply the union manpower. The SEC questioning of the unionists was a sideline to a larger investigation of the company, which is located in Avon, N.Y., south of Rochester. The SEC said thousands of investors lost more than $100 million in the collapse. area labelled the first plateau, between 226 and 232 feet above sea level.

According to Sullivan, people get stuck there because from below it looks easier to reach than it actually is. Despite the nunjber of close calls in the mountain area, Park Commission General Manager Nash Castro said there is little his department can do other than educate climbers about the dangers in the area. "We have a total of 212.8 miles of trails and it is not humanly possible to patrol every piece of the trail," Castro said. "We have signs up that the area is unsafe and unlawful, but people vandalize the signs." Castro said it would be impossible to fence off the area since fencing is too expensive and there would be too many areas in which people could go over or around the fence: (Continued from 1A) Garrison and Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Chief James Donnelly agree that the best way to remove someone stranded on the rocks is to "Start' from the top and work your way down." Garrison said some mem-' bers of his fire company are especially trained in working on steep slopes, "but you still have to watch every movement you make. What we try to do is have some of our men rappelling down the cliff with ropes to reach a victim and then decide what is the best way to carry them out." Garrison said that in most cases the fire department's ladders won't reach to where hikers get stuck.

Although the highest point on Hook Mountain is 737 feet above sea level, 'the site of many of the accidents is at the Police officials pointed out that any travel in the park not involving the trails is illegal and summonses are given to those caught violating the law. But most officials admit that if people want to continue climbing the mountain there is little that can be done. Almost all of those who have gotten stuck or injured have been teenagers, according to park officials. Sullivan pointed out that those who think they are conquering Mother Nature by their climbing feat are only fooling themselves since the mountain face was formed by quarrying operations before World War when the stone was used for making cement. Donnelly said that while victims have been forced to wait for hours for rescuers, the police have been lucky in locating them because they hardly ever travel alone.

"There is generally someone who goes for help and can tell us where to locate the trapped climber, which is good, because they would be very difficult to find otherwise if they strayed from the path where they are allowed to walk," said Donnelly. CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (UPI) Wrecking crews used a crane Saturday to remove two tank cars filled with highly inflammable ethyl alcohol from the site of a Chessie System train derailment following a series of explosions touched off when one of the tankers ruptured. A Chessie System spokesman said the "danger is over" and the last of the wreckage from the 10 drailed cars was being cleared away. However, firemen remained at the scene in case flames flared At least 14 firemen were injured slightly while fighting the fire, which broke out Friday night in an industrial area of this northern West Virginia city.

Fire Capt. Charles "Bud" Lantz said four of the injured were treated at a local hospital for minor burns and bruises, but the others did not require hospitalization. "There were at least eight major explosions," Lantz said. "There were several flashes sometimes blowing 50 to 100 feet in the air." More than 30 firemen, aided by equipment from surrounding towns, spent the night at the scene. Chessie estimated damage to its equipment at $40,000.

Lantz said the loading plat-' form of the Fourco Glass adjacent to the derailment site, also was damaged. Two or three families living near the site were evacuated, Lantz said. The Chessie spokesman said cause of the derailment was unknown. The Baltimore-bound, 83-car train, "The Manhattan," was traveling at about 15 miles per hour when the accident occurred, he said. agency without invoking any privilege." According to the papers in District Court, Campbell had cited the Fifth Amendment, invoking the Constitutional privilege against self-incrimination, instead of responding to questions in the SEC probe.

SEC hearings themselves are secret. Van der Linde said he had advised Campbey against responding until his lawyer was able "to see what the (SEC) investigation entailed." il An assistant public defender in Rockland, Van der Linde is also the lawyer1 for two other union officials said to be involved in the payoff: Richard Livingston of Washington, the general secretary; and Samuel Ruggiano of Brewertown, N.Y., a union business agent. According to Van der Linde, Campbell was to appear be- fore the SEC last Thursday, but the federal agency requested a postponement of the hearing. Campbell is now scheduled to appear April 25. them the money was left in the drawer when the register was closed at 2 p.m.

Police put the exact sum missing from the store at $1,170.35. Two weeks ago an A and store in New City was robbed of $5,000, although were were no signs of a break-in. That crime has not been solved. Haverstraw village police are investigating the theft of over $1,000 from the A and grocery store on Route 9W. According to a police spokesman, the store manager reported that when a cash register drawer was opened at 3: 14 p.m.

the money was found missing. Police said the manager told Bluefish behavior uncanny: Scientist MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Although bluefish are. voracious eaters and are 'sometimes known as the "bulldogs of the sea," they've never been known to attack swimmers, marine scientists said Saturday. The scientists were commenting on an incident Friday at a public beach when 11 bathers were bitten, cut or scratched as a large school of bluefish trapped a school of mullet, a common bait fish, close inshore and got into a feeding frenzy.

"I've never heard of bluefish attacking people," said Dr. Richard Robins of the University of Miami's School of Marine Science. "Yet, they are common along the East Coast of the United States and abound in areas where swimmers are." Dr. Donald DaSylva, a colleague of Robins, said that, in their frenzy to get at the mulle in the stirred-up water, the bluefish probably mistook the palms and soles of the swimmers' hands and feet for their prey. Campbell denies payoff union.

His possible involvement in a payoff came to light when the Securities and Exchange Commission filed pa- Sers in U.S. District Court in Washington as part of a probe into Stirling Homex. Come See Winnie-The-PoolC At Nanucl Union probed Patrick J. Campbell has denied through his lawyer that any officials of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters received a $200,000 payoff from an upstate modular housing firm. His lawyer, Herman Van der Linde of West Nyack, also stressed Campbell's willingness to undergo investigation by any government agency to "clear the air" of suspicion about the payoff.

"There is absolutely no truth in reports that there was a $200,000 payoff to any members of the carpenters' union," Van der" Linde said after he heard that the Justice Department was investigating his client in connection with an alleged payment from the now bankrupt Stirling Homex Corp. of Avon. "Mr. Campbell welcomes an investigation" of his activities "to clear the air," the lawyer added. Campbell, of New City and Washington, DC, is second general vice president of the ram W) en mMinBBSSiidl'VIAli Monday.

April I and Tuesday. April 16 al I h.JO A.M.. 1:30 7:30 lM Production! 100NAMET MALL Km (Continued from 1A) Eastern states," the union's magazine said at the time. The previous year an agreement had been signed covering those carpenters who worked at the Stirling Homex plant. The agreement was hailed by the union as history-making and was covered widely by the press when it was signed in the carpenters' marble headquarters at the foot of Capitol Hill here, near the SEC headquarters.

In the agreement, the company pledged to recope the Seaisl NANUET.