Pacific Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1973, Tokyo, Japan s Nixon Refuses to Free Tapes Hit With Three Subpoenas Death of a Legend 82 AP Eddie a grade school dropout who survived dogfights with the Red Baron to become a World War I flying ace and the guid ing genius behind Eastern died Monday in Eastern officials He was An Eastern spokesman said Rickenbacker died of heart failure at a Zurich His wife was with him at the His death ended a career of excitement and danger that prompted him to say hi 1970 Ive cheated the old Grim Reaper seven times that I know An Eastern spokesman said funeral services would be Continued on Page 2 AM AUTHORIZED THE AIMED OP THE PACIFIC COMMAND 205 July 1973 Air Crash Kills 31 in UPI An Ozark Air Lines airliner with 45 persons aboard crashed and burst into flames in a residential area while trying to land during a heavy thunderstorm The Louis Red Cross said at it had counted 31 dead and 12 survivors with two persons still A spokes man said the pilot and copilot were alive but the stewardess did not The was carry ing 42 persons and a crew of three when it crashed and broke into pieces during an instrument landing approach to Lambert The Flight was en route to Louis from Mar The high winged plane came down across the street from the campus of the University of Mis Pieces of the wreckage struck a nearby but nobody was believed A neighborhood Howard rushed from his 1 got inside the plane and sliced seat belts with my he I couldnt distinguish whether some were dead or The plane narrowly missed the university campus and landed in some trees about two miles away from the Lambert runway where it was Ozark said the flight had originated in and had stopped in and Cape before taking off from where 17 per sons got Phasing Up to the Price of food The Screen Of Crime Maine AP A Rockland man has been fined for watching television while driving on Union Police said Frank Hallow had a television set on the hood of his He was charged in District Court here with unlawfully having within view a television broadcast while operating a motor Tom of is pessimistic about the He purchased worth of groceries over the weekend because I WASHINGTON AP The White House was slapped with three subpoenas Mon day after President Nixon flatly refused to turn over to the Senate Watergate committee and to the special Watergate prosecutor tape recordings of presidential conversa Deputy White House Press Secretary Gerald Warren said two subpoenas from the Watergate commit tee were accepted on behalf of Nixon by acting presiden tial counsel Leonard Gar He said that another from the special prosecutor was accepted by special White House Coun sel Fred All three subpoenas named Nixon and were answerable by him on The substance of the special prosecutors was not expected to be available until it Gordon Strachan text of Nixon Page is filed in District Court Tuesday The two subpoenas from the Watergate committee were de livered by Rufus a committee staff Emerging from the meeting with Gar Edmisten declined to predict what may happen Its been accepted Edmisten told What they do about it I dont know The committee will be The White House counsel will examine the Warren Whatever is done will be in the context of the letters issued He did not elaborate but ap was referring to let ters delivered to the Watergate committee and the special pros refusing the requests for the White House Leaving the Old Executive Office Building where he served the Edmis ten quoted committee chairman Sam Ervin on the chance of getting the tapes Hope springs figure the prices are going up over 20 Earlier when declin If I buy now thats better than the bank will give ing to provide the Nixon you and you have to eat AP Continued on Back 1 Hijacked Jumbo Jet Lands in Syria t DAMASCUS UPI The hi Jacked Japan Airlines jumbo jet took off from Damascus for an unknown destination at airport sources Compiled From AP and UPI DAMASCUS The Japan Air line jumbo jet hijacked over the Netherlands Friday landed at this Syrian capital early Tues day after a flight from the Per sian Gulf State of airport officials Several Syrian government officials and the Japanese charge daffaires in Damascus were at the airport when the Boeing 747 swept in for what appeared to be a normal jumbo believed to have 133 including five hijackers and 21 had left Dubai at five min utes past midnight Dubai During its three and half hour the plane gave no in dication where it might But a Japan Air Lines official in Beirut said it tried to land first at but found the airport Reports from Tel which was monitoring the planes flight carefully in case it might land in said the plane ap to have mechanical Before leaving Dubai the pilot had asked about flying conditions at much lower altitude than the feet a jumbo jet would normally fly The fact that the hijackers did not appear to have decided be fore leaving Dubai precisely where they would land matched the pattern of their flight to Dubai after they hijacked the plane Friday afternoon shortly Continued on Back 1