THE Summer Daily Vol. LXXXIII, No. 56-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, August 7, 1973 Ten Cents Eight Pages Gray says warning to Nixon got no response Early WBI bug probe WASHINGTON (M - Patrick Gray insisted yesterday he alerted Presi- dent Nixon three weeks after the Watergate break-in that he felt some White House staffers were act- ing improperly and illegally. But, he said the President asked no ques- tions. The former acting director of the FBI said he then concluded he had been an alarmist. GRAY CONCLUDED his testimony be- fore the Senate Watergate committee, leaving only former Atty. Gen. Richard H Kleindienst and Asst. Atty. Gen. Henry Petersen to be questioned before the tired panel goes into a month's recess with the rest of Congress. Under questioning, Gray maintained the FBI's investigation of the Democratic headquarters burglary and wiretapping had been "very, very, very good," even though it didn't turn up those now alleged to have been involved in some manner. While Gray insisted the FBI investiga- tion was thorough, he admitted some of the agents might have been overawed by the positions of some of the people they were interviewing and that may have led to some soft questioning. questioned Patrick Gray $10 million expended on Nixon homes WASHINGTON (M) - About $10 million in federal funds has been spent since 1969 for security and communications installa- tions and other projects at President Nix- on's San Clemente and Key Biscayne ompounds, officials said yesterday. As the administration gave its fullest accounting yet of the costs of protecting and supporting the First Family's homes , and offices outside of Washington, the White House promised that Nixon would reveal within a month all details of his purchase of California and Florida resi- dences. THIS SERIES of announcement yester- "ay stripped much of the secrecy from xpayer-financed projects at Nixon's out- See $10, Page 5 BULLETIN WASHINGTON (M)-Vice President Spiro Agnew said yesterday he had been told he was under investiga- tion for possible violation of crimi- nal statutes. White House and Justice Depart- ment spokespersons last night con- firmed that a federal investigation involving the Vice President is in progress. "I have been informed that I am under investigation for possible vio- lations of the criminal statutes. I will make no further comment until the investigation has been completed, other than to say that I am inno- cent of any wrongdoing, that I have confidence in the criminal justice system of the United States and that I am equally confident my innocence will be affirmed," Agnew said. TOP OFFICIALS of the FBI didn't be- lieve that former Nixon canmpaign deputy Jeb Stuart Magruder and other high ad- ministration officials could have been in- volved in the "sordid affair," Gray said, and added that that belief persisted as late as last March. He said FBI leaders even suspected a Democratic double agent, out to embar- rass the Republicans, might have been See GRAY, Page 5 Daily Photo by JIM WALLACE THIS HORNED, mammalian creature propelled by four legs has suddenly become very popular and rather valuable due to its scarcity and rising prices of beef. This situation has caused several of these bovine beasts to be rustled from local ranches. Cow rustling hits Washtenaw County; By CHRIS PARKS Ranchers beware! There's a band of no good, thievin' cattle rustlers loose in Washtenaw County. These ornery galoots - totin' vans and skulking around in the dead of the night- have gone and rustled themselves 11 head of cattle in the county in the last two months. LT. LAIRD HARRIS-a sheriff's dep- uty - says a few of the outlaws were nabbed two weeks ago while they were slaughtering some farmer's cow right smack dab in the middle of. his field. Harris says, however, he doesn't think these hombres are a part of the big gang suspected by the Sheriff to be behind the recent rash of rustlings here and in near- by Livingston and Jackson counties. This big gang, Harris believes, has their own vans for roundin' up the little doggies. What the deputies can't figure beef crisis blamed out is how the outlaws slaughter and sell their booty. "WHEN WE figure that out, we'll have the case solved," Harris says. Lawmen reckon it's this here beef shortage that's a-causin' all the trouble. "I think it's got to be the shortage," Harris says. Badmen, he says, steal things which are "(1) Easy to market, (2) difficult to trace, and (3) have a high value." "MEAT IS ALMOST impossi- ble to trace," he says, "and now its price makes it more attractive." When will law and order be restored to the county? Harris says the sheriff's boys are ridin' the same trails with deputies from Liv- ingston and Jackson Counties and they hope to have the varmits in the hooscow within a couple of weeks. MEANTIME, are the farmers up at arms? Is there gonna be a posse? Shucks, no! Frankly, most of the boys don't see what all the commotion's about. Jack Pascoe of the Michigan Livestock Exchange in Saline sees "no cause for alarm," and says most of the area far- mers feel the same way. HE SAYS the rustlings are just a few scattered acts by irresponsible folks and that the whole kit 'n' kaboodle is being inflated by all those big-city newspaper people. In fact, Pascoe suspects the rustlings may be no more than the work of a few greedy ranchers lookin' to collect them- selves a little of that there insurance money.