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MITCHELL-STANS TRIAL

Nixon's brother
By AP and Reter something like cash - if you can
NEW YORK - President Nixon's do it by cash, do it by cash."
youngest brother, Edward, testi- The government claimed it was
fied yesterday at the Mitchell- goemed case it as
Stans trial that it was he who put Stans who specified cash only as
a cash-only label on financier Ro- a means of keeping the contribu-
Bert Vesco's secret $200,000 con-hon a secret. But the 43-year-old
tribution to the 1972 presidential re- Edward said the desire for secrecy
election campaign. originated with Vespo.
The witness quoted former Com-
merce Secretary Maurice Stans as STANS IS ON trial with former
telling him that "the contribution Atty. Gen. John Mitchell on char-
should be in cash to remain abso- ges they conspired to impede a
lutely anonymous, but as far as Securities and Exchange Commis-
the committee was concerned it sion fraud investigation of Vesco's
didn't make any difference." international financial empire in
Edward said he then called return for the $200,000 contribu-
Vesco and "I must have said tion.
March jobless rate
Idecreases sliszhtly

testifies
Vesco, who now resides in Costa
Rica, has successfully rebuffed at-
tempts to get him extradited to
the U. S.


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United States District Court
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of evidence, one count of the
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zy, obstruction of justice and
ry against Mitchell and
DGE GAGLIARDI did not
an explanation of his granting
dismissal, requested by the
se on grounds of lack of suf-
t evidence.
still must consider dismiss-
second obstruction charge to
mine whether alleged at-
ts to interfere with the SEC
tigation occurred in Manhat-
the court's jurisdiction.
charge dismissed claimed
the defendants had tried to
or prevent five people from
.ying before an SEC investiga-
E DISMISSED COUNT was
of three in the indictments
ging obstruction of justice.
count encompassed a specific
period during which the gov-
ent claimed the conspiracy
active.

to jury
The effect of throwing out the
one count was minimal. The other
two counts cover most of the al-
leged sequence of events. However
it reduces the maximum possible
sentence upon conviction from 50
Iyearsdto 45 years for e a c h
defendant.
Edward was the second of the
President's two brothers to testi-
fy at the trial, now ending its sev-
enth week.
DONALD NIXON, 59, -testified
for the government earlier in the
week that he rebuffed an effort by
a Vesco aide to get a message to
the President.
While Donald bore virtually no
resemblance to his older brother,
the President, Edward looked
somewhat like a younger, taller,
more slender counterpart of the
chief executive.
Edward took the stand wearing
a dark suit, white shirt and red
and gray tie. He testified in a
calm even voice.
THE WITNESS described him-
self as an environmental scientist
and said he served on the board
of directors, or as a consultant,
to various companies which he did
not name.
Edward said that he had known
Vesco since 1966, when he had
helped the financier in making a
$25,000 campaign contribution.

AP Photo
"LET THE MAN take his pictures," W. "Tony" Boyle says to his of ficial escorts on return to the hospital from Thursday's session of his
murder trial in Media, Pa. Boyle, being tried in the deaths of Jose ph Yablonski and members of his family, smiled, gestured and asked
his escort to "walk a little slower" for the photographer. I

WASHINGTON (A') - The small
drop in March unemployment
strengthens President Nixon's
claim that the economy will escape
recession this year, but the job-
less rate is almost sure to rise
again.
THE LABOR DEPART-
MENT report released yesterday
showed that the national jobless
picture has actually improved
since early January despite the
Arab oil embargo, job layoffs in
several key industries, and a de-
clining Gross National Product.
But many economists agreed that
the economy still isn't out of the
woods yet and, although the pros-
pect of a recession seems less cer-
tain, one could still take place.
The report, showing that the
unemployment rate fell from 5.2 to
5.1 per cent, appeared to con-
firm the administration's view that
the economic impact of the energy
crisis isn't spreading across the
entire economy. At least not yet.
So, far, t h e administration
claims, the automobile, tourist and
recreation and housing industries
have taken the main shellacking
while other areas of the economy'
appear strong.
"IF ANYBODY HAD thought
there would be a steep decline,

with unemployment of 6.5 per cent that1
to 7 per cent, that just doesn't stall
seem to be in the picture," said testif3
Herbert Stein, chairman of Presi- tion.
dent Nixon's Council of Economic
Advisers. THl
But Stein was cautious when onec
asked if the March jobs report was charg
enough to prove the President wasE
right when he said in his State of Each
the Union message that there will time
be no recession in the United ernm
States this year. wasa
ti.It certainly is in this direc-
toit is another sign," Stein
said. But he added the administra-
tion believes the jobless rate pro-
bably will go up again and, in that
sense, "it is not a turning point."
ADMINISTRATION
economists said the jobless rate's
climb from 4.8 to 5.2 per cent in
January was higher than expected,
and perhaps overstated.
The report also added support to
the argument of Arthur Burns,
chairman of the Federal Reserve
Board, that Congress should stray
away from cutting taxes to stimu-
late the economy and should re-
cognize inflation as the nation's
number one problem.
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Past union, official says Boyle
urged him* to lie about murders

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Saturday, April 6, 1974
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MEDIA, Pa. -) - A former
United Mine Worker (UMW) offic-
ial convicted of murder in the Ya-
blonski slayings testified yester-
day that W. "Tony" Boyle visited
him in jail and told him to stick
with his story about having had
nothing to do with the deaths.
WILLIAM PRATER, 53, a for-
mer field representative for UMW
District 19 from LaFollette, Tenn.,
said the former UMW president
visited him in the Erie County,
Pa., jail during Prater's murder
trial last year in the dtath of Jo-
seph "Jock" Yablonski.
Boyle, 72, a former UMW presi-
dent, is on trial in Delaware Coun-
ty Court for the Dec. 31, 1969,

murders of union rival Yablonski,
his wife and daughter in their
Clarksville, Pa., home.
The prosecution contends that
Boyle ordered the killings and ar-
ranged to divert $20,000 in union
funds to pay the assassins.
UNDER QUESTIONING by spe-
cial prosecutor Richard Sprague,
Prater admitted he had lied at his
trial in denying participation in the
murders.
Prater later confessed his in-
volvement and testified at the trial
of Albert Pass - who, PraterI
claims, enlisted him in the plot.'
Pass, of Middlesboro, Ky., former
secretary - treasurer of District 19,
was convicted of murder last

June.r
"Had you been given any in-
structions as what to say at youra
trial?" Sprague asked.k
"YES, SIR, by William Turn-v
blazer and Albert Pass," Prater{
replied. Turnblazer, 52, also of!
Middlesboro, Ky., and president of,
District 19, is charged with mur-
der in the case. He has pleaded
guilty to federal charges of violat-
ing the Yablonskis civil rights and'
is expected to be the chief prosecu-
tion witness.
Asked what instructions Boyle
gave him, Prater replied: "He
told me to 'stick with your story
and, even if you're convicted,
stick with your story."'
U n d e r cross - examination
by Charles Moses, Boyle's chief
counsel, Pater said he had never
testified before about Boyle's visit.
Moses also read a portion of a-
hand-written statement Prater had,
made to authorities in w h i c h
he quoted Prater as say-
ing: "On at least two occasions
Albert Pass told mne Tony Boyle did
not know anything about the plan
to murder Yablonski."

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Music School: K. Holen, flute, SM
Recital Hall, 2:30 pm.
University Dancers in Concert: Power
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positions beginning in April/first of~
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